The first of many fruitful collaborations between John Ford and Henry Fonda, Drums Along ... more
the Mohawk is a pulsating adventure yarn set in the American colonial period.Gilbert and Lana Martin (Fonda and Claudette Colbert) are a young couple trying to lay...
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Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jack Ging, Marla Heasley, Lance Legault, Melinda Culea, Mr T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Carl Franklin
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Advantages: funny in some places Disadvantages: no chemistry, weak story
First of all, I must point out that this is a film-only review. I do not own this film on DVD, but have seen it on TV a couple of times now.
~The Story~
The movie begins with Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) getting married to his girlfriend of four years, Lisa (Debra Messing). They head off on honeymoon to the island of St. Barts, and while there, they meet Claude (Hank Azaria), a French scuba diving instructor, who has a penchant for walking around in very few clothes. On the first day, Lisa has a scuba diving lesson with Claude, and Reuben goes to Claude's boat to surprise Lisa with a bottle of Champagne. He is shocked to find them in bed together - still wearing their flippers!
Heartbroken, Reuben goes back to New York alone. His friend Sandy (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an actor who has had only one role in his life, yet has ...
Advantages: Funny, Ben Stiller is great Disadvantages: A bit predicatable but hey!
Any film with Ben Stiller in is bound to be funny so when I saw a link for free tickets to a preview of his latest movie ?Along Came Polly? I eagerly filled the form in and hoped I?d be one of the lucky recipients for the showing in Liverpool. Lo and behold 3 days later a pair of tickets came through my door for the Tuesday night preview.
The plot is fairly basic, as you would expect from a romantic comedy. I have to say though that the emphasis is firmly on comedy. My boyfriend hates ?rom coms? but he really enjoyed this film. I think the gross out factor, similar to that of There?s Something about Mary, really makes this film appeal to the male audience, while the naked male element will always appeal to the female audience! The film is also similar in style to Meet The Parents, which is unsurprising since they were both directed by ...
Along came polly is a romantic and comedy movie starring Jennifer Anniston and Ben Stiller.
Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) has just got married , when on their honeymoon his bride dumps him for a muscly scuber diver instructor.
Reuben is hurt and shocked that his new wife would do this to him and so soon after they get married.
By coincidence Reuben soon bumps into an old school friend Polly , played by Jennifer Anniston.
Together they go salsa dancing and try spicy foods!
They then fall for eachother!
A great happy ending to a sad story with some classic comedy moments too - for example when Reuben has the squits after a spicy meal at Polly's house and she wanders what's taking him so long in the bathroom! I was in stiches when I saw this!
I give this movie 10/10!
The dvd features Deleted scenes and outtakes plus loads ...
Gilbert Martin takes his young bride Lana to Mohawk Valley just before the Revolutionary War where they are burned out by Indians. For six years Gilbert fights in the war as they both try to establish their homestead.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT; SONY DADC, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
23/08/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
OPTD 0125
Barcode
5060034571216
Music Director
Alfred Newman
Composer
Alfred Newman
Director of Photography
Ray Rennahan
Cinematographer
Bert Glennon, Ray Rennahan
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Dolby Digital
DVD Description
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK is John Ford's first film in Technicolor (which recently perfected far richer shadings of colour than had previously been possible), and the director uses it to stunning effect. The film stars Henry Fonda as Revolutionary War-era farmer Gilbert Martin, who, in 1776, has returned with his well-born wife, Lana (Claudette Colbert), to his rustic cabin in the increasingly dangerous Mohawk River valley. At first unaccustomed to the harsh physical challenges of frontier life, Lana adjusts to the work at hand and is soon able to help her husband in the fields. Shortly after they learn that the colonies are at war with the British, their farmhouse is attacked and burned to the ground by a party of Tory-led Indians. The feisty Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver) provides temporary shelter for the couple, but it's only a matter of time before the Indians launch a more brutal assault. Save for THE QUIET MAN, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK contains the richest passages of pastoral imagery in Ford's entire canon, the visual beauty nearly upstaging the spectacular and terrifying Indian battles. The performances, particularly Oliver (who garnered an Oscar nomination) as the vinegary widow and the superbly stoic Fonda, enable Ford to again demonstrate the heroism and limitations of rugged individualism. The scenes of an Indian prisoner spread-eagled on a wagon and Gilbert's escape are repeated almost exactly in the 1982 dystopian classic THE ROAD WARRIOR.
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