“Drums Along the Mohawk” Best Seller in Colour

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21187, 9 August 1940, Page 8

“Drums Along the Mohawk” Best Seller in Colour

Of all the possible ways there are of presenting action for the public’s entertainment, the screen has proved time and again its unrivalled power in this field. Reading about action always left the actual.picture of excitement to the reader’s imagination, while action on the stage is limited to space, props and scope. But on the screen the scope is limitless. Skilful photography has produced amazing scenes so vivid in their realism that audiences have thrilled to the marrow. Yet never has the action of battle been filmed so realistically and excitingly as in Darryl Zanuck’s production of ‘‘Drums Along the Mohawk” filmed in technicolour under the direction of John Ford.

Action is not the only highlight of ••Drums Along the Mohawk.” Starred In the film are Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda, as a pair of pioneers who settle in the Mohawk Valley and soon find themselves under the onslaught of the savage Iroquois Indians. In the days when torch and tomahawk spread their terror, these two braved the wilderness. The film is based on the bestselling novel by Walter D. Edmonds.