My Darling Clementine / Drums Along the Mohawk

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, 1946, 20th Century Fox, 104 min. Director John Ford. Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), the Earp siblings (Ward Bond, Tim Holt), and Doc Holliday (Victor Mature) have an escalating feud with the cattle-rustling Clanton family (Walter Brennan, John Ireland and Grant Withers). Although Ford hews closer to the legend than to the cold hard facts, that is, in large part, the point of the film -- an elegiac vision of an heroic age when almost-mythological personalities walked the earth as real, flesh-and-blood people.

DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, 1939, 20th Century Fox, 103 min. Director John Ford. A newly married pioneer couple (Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert) struggles to hold onto their farm in the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Beset by Indian raids and British and Tory pillagers, the settlers and their compatriots weather a bitter struggle to survive against overwhelming odds.