Drums Along the Mohawk [DVD]Amazon. com Nineteen thirty nine is often proposed as the movies' halcyon year, and three reasons why were directed by John Ford: Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and Drums Along the Mohawk. In that exalted company Drums would have to be accounted "merely superb" even if it's the best film ever made about the American Revolution and, oh, only about eighth best picture of its year. Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert play newlyweds in New York's Mohawk