Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Gil and Lana Martin try to set up a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories

John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin are a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Indians drive them, along with other settlers in the valley, into a nearby fort, where they watch helplessly as the natives lay waste to their farms and cabins. A spinster with a large farm, Sarah McKlennar, comes to their rescue when she hires Gilbert to work as a field hand and gives the Mar...