Mohawk

Starring:Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Lori Nelson, Allison Hayes, John Hoyt, Rhys Williams, Barbara Jo Allen, Mae Clarke, Tommy Cook, Ted de Corsia, Michael Granger, John Hudson, James O'Hara, Chabon Jadi, Lyle Latell, Jack Rutherford, James Nusser, Albert William Cody, Paul Lukather
Director: Kurt Neumann
Studio: Peter Pan
Product Type: DVD

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Nineteen thirty-nine is often proposed as the movies' halcyon year, and three reasons why were directed by John Ford: Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and Drums Along the Mohawk. In that exalted company Drums... would have to be accounted "merely superb"--even if it's the best film ever made about the American Revolution and, oh, only about eighth-best picture of its year.

Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play newlyweds in New York's Mohawk Valley at the time of the Revolutionary War. That war is more a distant rumor than a direct concern of people with cabins to raise, crops to harvest, and firstborn on the way. When it comes to their valley, in the form of hitherto-peaceable Indians whipped up by a gaunt Tory with an eyepatch (John Carradine), life changes as though with the passing of a cloud shadow.

In this, his first color film, Ford created indelible images of the dawning of America: a lone wagon making its way through acres of long grass rippling in the wind; the Indians, at the onset of their first raid, seeming to materialize out of the mist, out of the very trunks of trees; a ragged line of farmers with flintlocks passing along a split-rail fence, then resolving into a column, an army, marching toward a distant horizon. (Utah's Wasatch mountain country stands in persuasively for upstate New York in pioneer days.) Edna May Oliver scored a best-supporting-actress Oscar nomination as a memorably crusty frontier widow, while Ward Bond--oddly omitted from the opening credits--claimed a place of honor in the John Ford Stock Company playing Fonda's best friend. --Richard T. Jameson

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Lawless frontier. Indian attacks. Settlers protecting themselves the only way they know how-with guns and courage. In the years before the Revolutionary War, the East was as wild as the West would be one hundred years later. Henry Fonda delivers one of his most memorable performances ever as a young frontier leader protecting his family in the backwoods of New York state. Claudette Colbert so-stars as his spirited wife. With a fine supporting cast that also includes Edna May Oliver and John Carradine, this is one of John Ford's most exciting historical dramas.

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A Rare Revolutionary War Classic.......2007-06-09

There are relatively few really good films pertaining to the Revolutionary War era, and this is one of the very best. It is a very fast-moving story of a young newlywed couple (Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) who move from the comfort of the city to the rustic and eminently dangerous 1770s upstate New York, in the Mohawk Valley, where the settlers continually battle the elements and the Indians, who fight the colonists as the proxies of the British. The film will definitely hold the viewer's interest as the couple, their community, and the young nation battle to survive. An outstanding film, on the same level as "Sergeant York!"

Not-horrible portrayal of Indians.......2007-06-08

I give it an 8.0 of 10 for its anti-war message and its not-totally-bad portrayal of Indians. For more on the subject, see the review at [...]

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Everythings in it!.......2007-05-20

I had never heard of this movie when I came upon it. I of course had heard of Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda & my favorite Edna May Oliver, but never this movie. What a nice surprise we had when we watched it. My husband, granddaughter & myself all were wrapped up in this from the beginning. I wished they'd make more like these instead of the junk today.

A great Fonda classic.......2007-05-12

Add this to Young Mr. Lincoln, The Return of Frank James, and Jesse James as young Henry Fonda classics. Another actor you'll see in all of them is Eddie Collins. In Drums Along The Mohawk, he plays Christian, the rolly polly roll caller. Just another funny Collins performance for comic relief.

Drums along the Mohawk.......2007-03-09

This has long been a favorite and now I have it on DVD. This movie has quality throughout. First Class movie.

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A film adaptation of the famous play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1984) as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth, The Hunt for Red October) who, in a frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? Equus features a lot of hokum--its therapy scenes are absurd crescendos of revelation and insights. But its central question has substance, the direction is energetic, and the performances are powerful; Burton, handsome and haggard, brings a complex self-loathing to his role. Also featuring Jenny Agutter (Logan's Run) and Joan Plowright (Enchanted April). --Bret Fetzer

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This Oscar®-nominated* adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play erupts on the screen with the same power and passion as the stage original. Richard Burton gives "one of his best performances ever" (Boxoffice) in this "elegant and provocative" (Newsweek) tale ofmyth and madness. What would drive Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a troubled adolescent stable boy, to blind six horses with a metal spike? Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Burton) investigates these unspeakable acts and delves deep into Alan's psyche, confronting the mysteries of sexual passion and madnessas well as the dark demons buried within his own soul. *1977: Actor (Burton),Supporting Actor (Firth), Adapted Screenplay

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Obviously a stage play adaptation.......2007-06-13

I have torn feelings over this movie. Some of the acting, especially Richard Burton with his soliloquies, was gripping. At the same time... soliloquies says something too. This felt like a stage play adaptation. There are lots of long speaking bits and very few settings. I'm not against adapted stage plays, but this didn't feel like a movie, and it's strong points made me more curious about seeing it as a play than anything else.

Equus unfolds from a therapist asked to analyze and work with a teenage boy who had a seemingly normal life, who suddenly and for no apparent reason gouged out the eyes of several horses at a stable where he worked part time. The therapist, meanwhile narrates about his dreams and oddities, and finds in the teen parrallels to himself. The movie is as much about the therapist as about the teen.

Something that for me was weak about this movie is that it seemed to be trying way too hard to be sexual. The teen is naked in approaching half his scenes. He rides horses naked. He stands naked next to horses and pets them during some long narration. He falls back completely naked into blackness in some type of visual methaphor over and over again during some long narration. He gets naked in therapy, which I'm assuming is OK only because this is set in England, and therapy is run differently there. Beyond the copious nudity, some of the language is, once again, over the top. In a flashback showing his quirks preceeding the blinding, he's whipping himself (probably naked here too) and screaming some type of geneology for Equus (his personal god). This geneology is a bit over the top as most of it reads like "Pankus begat Spankus... Spankus begat Equus." Seriously, "Spankus" is in there.

I recommend avoiding this movie, although maybe be open to it as a play. Turning it into a film certainly didn't add anything, and altough this has some good acting, it seems at best as if it's trying to hard.

Loses in film translation.......2007-05-12

Having recently seen the London production with Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, Equus is best left alone with its minimilist stage and representative 'horses' instead of live animals. Richard Burton, however, always a favorite of mine is intriguing to watch, and listen to with his famous voice and delivery, and I would have loved to have seen him do this production live. This film served as a good background for more modern productions, but is a pale substitute for a live performance.

A blurred line of sanity and insanity.......2007-02-19

What I found most interesting about this movie was the similarities and differences between the psychiatrist and the patient. The movie seems to blur the lines of sanity and insanity. I know that the plot line of this movie will probably turn some people off, but I found it to be very intesting and intriquing. I work in the psychiatric field and we are very concerned about "normality" and what it means to the client. I found the movie to be very intesting, the plot very strong and the acting very believable. See the movie for yourself. I do recommend this movie to people that like things a little "different".

Amazing film!.......2007-01-15

This was quite simply one of the best films I have ever watched. The actors are brilliant, the script superb and the directing very much resembles a theatrical play (of course, that is logical since the film is based on a play).
Richard Burton is giving his best performance and all in all I think that everybody should see this movie!

Burton - Will there ever be an equal?.......2007-01-10

Richard Burton, my best male actor. Cant think of anybody on the same level (except Jack Nicholson) who can portray a role like this. When Burton talks you listen. Excellent film though very heavy stuff and not for the faint hearted. Highly recommended.

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Starring: Scott Brady , Rita Gam , Neville Brand , Lori Nelson , and Allison Hayes
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A date-movie masquerading as an Indian uprising flick, has Scott Brady as a frontier painter with a penchant for models, trying to forestall war with the Iroquois. The plot follows the conventional line, with the frontiersmen (and women) besieged in their fort, driven back into their hovels, then saved at the last moment by the cavalry. But the focus is not on the story line, and clearly on the bustline, as various fine babes vie for the attentions of Brady, including a squaw played by Rita Gam. One scene depicts what appears to be an Iroquois version of a wet T-shirt contest, with Gam the clear winner. On the DVD you'll find optional Japanese subtitles, lengthy notes on the cast and crew, and what appears to be a fairly unfaded print of the film with vivid colors. --Jim Gay

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Quality scalped!!!.......2006-02-19

I actually made it through the movie, so shame on me for not having something better to do for over 90 minutes. This is the 3rd DVD title I've watched from Alpha and the quality is really lame. I don't expect perfection on movies from the 50's and earlier, but, flutter, colors going in and out and contrast changing in the middle of scenes is pretty bad. The copies I've watched look worse than what one would find on regular TV.

I'll come back for you!.......2004-12-29

MOHAWK is a delightfully bad movie that succeeds despite itself. Ostensibly about a 18th century frontier painter (Scott Brady), it's really nothing more than an innocent cheesecake (and beefcake) movie saddled to a western plot.
Our hero Brady is away from the post, painting barmaid Greta's (Allison Hayes) picture when his Boston fiancée, Cynthia (Lori Nelson), arrives. Beautiful Mohawk princess (daughter of chief Ted de Corsia) Onida (Rita Gam) isn't on scene yet, but she arrives soon enough to take her place in the three-sided tug-of-war for the attention of our randy paint pusher.
Things are ducky between the white settlers and the Iroquois (There's land enough for everybody, Chief Ted says at one point), save for the bitter machinations of landowner Butler (John Hoyt) and hawkish Tuscarora warrior Rokhawah (Neville Brand.)
With that set-up, it should come as no surprise that most of act three takes place at the besieged white settlement. Connoisseurs of bad westerns should enjoy the dialogue in MOHAWK, too. There's the obligatory mule skinner observation - "When a woman puts her warpaint on she's more dangerous than any injun!" This pleasant, pseudo-Indian speak exchange between the nasty Rokhawah and good Chief Ted's son - "Your tongue is too long!" "Your knife will not shorten it!" Or this pungent observation by, I believe, the warrior Rokhawah - "He who fills his mouth with big words ends by eating dirt!" They don't write them like that anymore. MOHAWK even has a song plunked down in the middle of it - "Love Plays the Strings of My Banjo."
If that's not enough, MOHAWK has war dances that owe quite a bit more to Merce Cunningham than ethnographic research. There are scoundrels in broadcloth and loincloth, glamorously beautiful women, Scott Brady clocking Neville Brand a time or two, an entertaining, movie ending battle scene. What more could you ask for?
The print, in glorious color, seems to have been taken from a decent master. There are some instances of color flutter, but nothing drastic. The disk also contains interesting text biographies of the stars and excerpts, some uncomplimentary, from reviews of the movie. All in all, a discount disk worth a western fan's attention.

STCOK SHOTS ALONG THE MOHAWK.......2003-03-24

As Ron Wood mentionned in it's review, most action sequences in MOHAWK comme from John Ford's DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK. This 1939 film provided stock shots for many other movies. In 1944, one shot of Mohawk warriors setting Fonda's place afire in DRUMS was used in BUFFALO BILL. Battle scenes around the fort were then used in MOHAWK. Almost the same scenes were used again in the pilot episode of the DANIEL BOONE TV series starring Fess Parker in the mid-60s.

As far as stock shots are concerned, BUFFALO BILL seems to be the absolute winner, at least in the western genre. Stock shots of the battle scene (War Bonnet Creek) were used by Fox in numerous productions. PONY SOLDIER with Tyrone Power (begining of the movie). SIEGE AT FEATHER RIVER (end of the movie, which was produced by Panoramic which provided FOX with B pictures). THE TIME TUNNEL TV series (Episode : Little Big Horn) also used the battle to pass as Custer's famous last stand.
Another depiction of that battle, from THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON starring Errol Flynn, was used in BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON starring Ray Milland. Though THEY DIED was black and white, and BUGLES Technicolor, the stock shot did fit because it was being watch through binoculars by Ray Milland and modified from black and white to sepia.

If anyone knows of other stock shots in westerns, I'd be glad to read about that.

Mohawk.......2002-05-22

This is a rather interesting movie in that it uses a lot of distant scenic and action shots from John Ford's Drums Along The Mohawk. This is most noticeable, because all of a sudden while viewing the film, the production values are suddenly increased and the cinematography becomes almost ravishing instead of run of the mill that the "new" portions of the film just can't match.
As an aside, I remember seeing Drums Along The Mohawk twice when I was a kid in the 1940s in a small town where I grew up and it was in black and white; only when I saw it on VHS in the 1980s did I see the true Technicolor format. And then I was knocked out again when I saw portions of it appear in Mohawk, a film I missed at the theatres and only caught on DVD about a year ago.

Does anyone know of any other films that utilized parts of older films as part of their format to save on production costs? I'd like to hear from anyone on this. I know this happens, especially in World War II films with documentary battle footage, but haven't noticed the use of regular production footage in newer movies, unless they referred to the earlier film as a link in a series.

Early American artist finds romance trying to keep peace........1999-05-25

Scott Brady and Rita Gam are not especially believable as a colonial era artist and his native American love interest, but the unusual time period, and energy of the production make "Mowhawk" fun. Evil white men try to incite the Indians to war, while the high-integrity artist works to maintain peace as he does portraits of various characters.

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A Rare Revolutionary War Classic.......2007-06-09

Not-horrible portrayal of Indians.......2007-06-08

I give it an 8.0 of 10 for its anti-war message and its not-totally-bad portrayal of Indians. For more on the subject, see the review at [...]

Rob Schmidt
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Everythings in it!.......2007-05-20

A great Fonda classic.......2007-05-12

Drums along the Mohawk.......2007-03-09

This has long been a favorite and now I have it on DVD. This movie has quality throughout. First Class movie.

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Quality scalped!!!.......2006-02-19

I'll come back for you!.......2004-12-29

STCOK SHOTS ALONG THE MOHAWK.......2003-03-24

If anyone knows of other stock shots in westerns, I'd be glad to read about that.

Mohawk.......2002-05-22

Early American artist finds romance trying to keep peace........1999-05-25

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Quality scalped!!!.......2006-02-19

I'll come back for you!.......2004-12-29

STCOK SHOTS ALONG THE MOHAWK.......2003-03-24

If anyone knows of other stock shots in westerns, I'd be glad to read about that.

Mohawk.......2002-05-22

Early American artist finds romance trying to keep peace........1999-05-25

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An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancee newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.

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Obviously a stage play adaptation
Loses in film translation
A blurred line of sanity and insanity
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Obviously a stage play adaptation.......2007-06-13

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Mohawk / Drums In The Deep South DVD - 2 DVD set

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Mohawk Though released by 20th Century-Fox, Mohawk was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson, who also doubled as the film's musical composer. Scott Brady stars as an 18th century Boston artist, sent to Mohawk Valley to paint landscapes and portraits of Native Americans. Brady is forced to pack up his easel when he becomes embroiled in a war between the Indians and avaricious land baron John Hoyt. The villain intends to play both ends against the middle, then claim what's left when the Mohawks and settlers wipe each other out. Brady not only defies Hoyt, but also battles near-psychotic Mohawk warrior Neville Brand. Featuring "A Kick In Time" Cartoon Drums In The Deep South Directed by former set designer William Cameron Menzies, this minor Civil War effort from low-budget producers King Brothers stars James Craig and Guy Madison as former West Point roommates now on opposing sides in the war between the states. Assigned to delay General Sherman's march toward Atlanta, Major Clay Clayborn (Craig) and 20 rebel volunteers take position on top of Devil Mountain where they proceed to bombard Union supply trains, at first almost unimpeded. Unaware that his best friend is leading the rebels, Union major Will Denning (Madison) prepares to blow up the entire mountain but Clay's former fiancé, Kathy Summers (Barbara Payton), manages to persuade him to cease fire while she negotiates a deal. Filmed in inexpensive Super Cine Color, Drums in the Deep South was produced independently and awarded an RKO release. Includes A Rapid Hunters Cartoon

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