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Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1939 American historical drama western film based upon a 1936 novel of the same name by American author Walter D. Edmonds. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by John Ford. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert portray settlers on the New York frontier during the American Revolution.
Drums Along the Mohawk: Directed by John Ford. With Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins. Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
Gilbert 'Gil' Martin, a civilized man from the East coast colonies, finds himself a loving bride, Magdelana 'Lana', and takes her West to start a homestead in the Mohawk Valley (in Upstate New York).
Drums Along the Mohawk is a novel by American author Walter D. Edmonds. The story follows the lives of fictional Gil and Lana Martin, settlers in the central Mohawk Valley of the New York frontier during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).
Synopsis. In 1776, after marrying Gilbert Martin, Lana "Magdalena" Borst leaves her luxurious home in Albany, New York to set out for her husband's farm in Deerfield, in the perilous territory of the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. Soon after arriving in Deerfield, Lana is startled by the presence of Gilbert's Indian friend, Blue Back, in ...
Henry Fonda delivers one of his most memorable performances in this classic adventure helmed by legendary director John Ford. Fonda plays a frontiersman protecting his family in the years before ...
However, following the onset of the American Revolutionary War, the couple's quiet life in the Mohawk Valley is interrupted by violent attacks from Native Americans and Tories.
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Drums Along the Mohawk, American adventure film, released in 1939, that was based on the historical novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds. The film, set during the American Revolution, follows a young couple, Gilbert and Lana Martin (played by Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert, respectively), as they begin married life together in a ...
Set in New York’s Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War, Drums Along the Mohawk tells a fictionalized version of a real-life struggle between American settlers, their Loyalist opponents, and the Indians who are trying their best to play the game of empires, even as their land is whittled away.
Drums Along the Mohawk was published in 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in American history. The first visible sign of the Depression was the 1929 stock market crash, in which investors lost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
