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Drums Along the Mohawk Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: John Ford, Country: USA, Release: 1939, Runtime: 103 The great John Ford’s first Technicolor film, gorgeously photographed by Bert Glennon and Ray Rennahan, Drums is a western set back east — in New York’s Mohawk Valley, on the eve of the American Revolution. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play a newly married couple facing up to the rigors of frontier life. The widening struggle for American independence arrives in the form of attacks on the settlers by Indian tribes allied with the British. One of the few great films about the Revolution, Drums is far less about military heroics than it is about the struggle to create a new American community. American Express and The Film Foundation present Drums Along the Mohawk and Leave Her to Heaven as part of the Preservation Screening Program, In Glorious Technicolor. The Preservation Screening Program has been created by American Express and The Film Foundation to provide public access to motion pictures that have been preserved/restored with funding from the foundation. Through this new program, today's moviegoers are connecting with film art and culture of the past, developing appreciation for our shared cinematic history and highlighting the importance of film preservation.

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