Drums Along the Mohawk is one of my favorite films. And I love Northwest Passage. Neither of these are very well known today among the general public - and probably too un-pc to share with the kiddies. After all, Claudette Colbert is afraid of peace loving, laid-back, dope-smoking, bead-stringing Mohawks!
I still remember the startling scene of the Mohawk brave suddenly popping up in the church pulpit...and Dame Edna May Oliver being carried outside her flaming house by the rampaging Indians as she defiantly lies in the family bedstead she refuses to abandon. Unforgettable scenes!...."Drums Along the Mohawk" (Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert)...great stuff!
"Northwest Passage" (Spencer Tracy, Robert Young) is an historic, brilliant movie that portrays the courage, bravery and determination of our early American explorers and their determined foot soldiers.
Americana at its finest.
Leni