1939 - DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, big technicolor epic is kind of boring.

During the Revolutionary War, the British use the Indians to attack the settlers in the Mohawk valley in this Daryl F. Zanuck technicolor production which was directed by John Ford.

This was the year Ford directed three films, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath and Drums Along the Mohawk, which is probably the least remembered of these three. 

This was John Ford's first film in technicolor and it had extensive on location filming in Utah.  Ford had lots of problems with the weather and apparently the big production sapped his enthusiasm for the film.  It kind of shows in the finished product.  

Drums Along the Mohawk is enjoyable as a big budget old fashioned technicolor Hollywood film, but that's about it.

103 minutes