Friday, March 16, 2012

Drums Along The Mohawk (1939)

I recently re-watched this movie and have to say that it is pretty good. Even though it was made in 1939 since it is in color it doesn't feel like an old movie - like a black-and-white movie does. It has many good actors (like Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) that help bring about the portrayal of frontier life in New York State during the American Revolution. The frontier people not only have to leave civilization and start new lives where they have to make everything themselves, but they also have to fight the Indians (there is no such thing as Native Americans since no group is native to this continent. There are only immigrants who came earlier than later immigrants and Indians came from Asia across the Bering Straight) and the British. This movie is one of those "feel good" movies that actually has a good plot and good fighting scenes. It shows people (including those of today) how the frontier was rough, but how the people living there were tough and overcame so much.

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