Drumming on the mohawk

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Movie
German title Drumming on the mohawk
Original title Drums Along the Mohawk
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1939
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Ford
script Lamar Trotti
Sonya Levien
William Faulkner
production Darryl F. Zanuck ,
Raymond Griffith for
20th Century Fox
music Alfred Newman
camera Bert Glennon
Ray Rennahan
cut Robert L. Simpson
occupation

Drummeln am Mohawk (Original title: Drums Along the Mohawk ) is an American feature film from 1939. The western by director John Ford is based on the novel Peacock Feather and Cockade ( Drums Along the Mohawk ) by Walter D. Edmonds . The German premiere was on December 9, 1949.

action

After her wedding to the settler Gilbert Martin, Lana Borst, a daughter from a good family, leaves her home in Albany and moves with her husband into the valley of the Mohawk River . The young couple get into an argument over Lana's prejudices against the Indians. Her husband is close friends with an Indian. Despite her bad feelings, Lana stays with her husband.

Lana's attitude is put to the test as the Mohawk Valley is considered a dangerous area. The news of the beginning of the American Revolution to achieve independence from the British Kingdom comes from a neighboring town . British troops have landed in Boston. Now, of all times, it turns out that Lana is pregnant. The British troops attack, and Gilbert and Lana's farm is also attacked. Lana suffers a miscarriage, the British commander Caldwell has the farm burned down. In order to have a roof over their heads, they work on the farm of the widow Mrs. McKlennar.

After a period of peace, the colonists learn of an imminent attack by the Indians and a militia is set up. The Indian attack can be repulsed, but more than half of the militia is killed, and their leader, General Herkimer, dies as a result of his injuries. Gilbert is brought back to the farm wounded. Lana, pregnant again, gives birth to a son while her husband is recovering.

Again the colonists are attacked by the Indians. The settlers take refuge in Fort German Flatts . Men and women fight together against the Indians, and Mrs. McKlennar is mortally wounded. When the ammunition threatens to run out, the settler Joe Boleo tries to break out of the siege to get help. But he is killed, and Gilbert tries it in turn. He made the breakthrough and reached the next American fort, chased by Indians. When the Indians seem to overrun German Flatts, Gilbert came to the rescue with the US troops. The Indians give up the attack and flee. Mrs. McKlennar has ordered Gilbert and Lana to keep their farm. There they start a new life.

background

  • The film is the first color film by four-time Oscar-winning John Ford.
  • The location of the film is the Mohawk River, a tributary of the Hudson River in the US state of New York. But it was shot in Utah.
  • Co-author Faulkner, not named in the credits, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize twice (1955 and 1962).
  • Faulkner's fellow writer Trotti received Oscar honors in 1945, while his colleague Levien in 1956.
  • Composer Newman has been honored nine times in his career, art director Richard Day seven times and set decorator Thomas Little six times.
  • Cinematographer Rennahan was not only nominated for this film for an Oscar in 1940, he also won it that year for Gone With the Wind . For King of the Toreros he won another Oscar in 1942.
  • Costume designer Gwen Wakeling also won an Oscar in 1951, sound engineer Roger Heman in 1944, his colleague Robert Parrish (who was responsible for sound editing here) in 1948.

Reviews

“ An exciting and intensely staged western with excellent camera work. "

- Lexicon of international film

" Admittedly, it's all very sentimental and chauvinistic, but just as poetic and moving ... "

- Michael Kerbel, here at the end of the film

“ Drums Along the Mohawk” may not be one of the best films by the American director, who at some point became a myth himself. But the film makes one understand the contradicting feelings in which a patriotically minded American must find himself, who always (in vain) demanded from reality to approach myth. The film is not particularly patriotic in terms of the dramaturgy, the dialogues or the drawing of the characters. Ford had the ability to reduce patriotism, so to speak, to a realistically told story without frills or sentimentality. "

- Ulrich Behrens, film headquarters.

Awards

literature

  • Walter D. Edmonds : Peacock Feather and Cockade. Roman (Original title: Drums Along the Mohawk ). German by Mildred Harnack-Fish . 20.-30. Thousand. Universitas-Verlag, Berlin 1950, 559 pp.
  • Walter D. Edmonds: Drums Along the Mohawk - original English edition - Syracuse University Press, 1997 - ISBN 0-8156-0457-2 .
  • John Baxter: John Ford: His Movies - His Life. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-86019-5 .
  • JA Place, Christa Bandmann (Ed.): The Westerns by John Ford. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-10221-9 .
  • Scott Eyman , Paul Duncan: John Ford - The Complete Films. TASCHEN Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8228-3090-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for drums on the Mohawk . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 99 427 V).
  2. ↑ Drumming on the Mohawk. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Michael Kerbel: Henry Fonda: His films - his life / German translation and supplement: Bernd Eckhardt. Heyne, Munich 1982 (Heyne Filmbibliothek; 56), ISBN 3-453-86056-X , p. 63.
  4. ↑ http://www.filmzentrale.com/rezis/trommelnammohawkub.htm