Mohawk | Scott Brady, Rita Gam | I'll come back for you!

Mohawk | Scott Brady, Rita Gam | STCOK SHOTS ALONG THE MOHAWK

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Mohawk

	Mohawk Scott Brady, Rita Gam United American Video, 1998 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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A date-movie masquerading as an Indian uprising flick, has Scott Brady as a frontier painter with a penchant for models, trying to forestall war with the Iroquois. The plot follows the conventional line, with the frontiersmen (and women) besieged in their fort, driven back into their hovels, then saved at the last moment by the cavalry. But the focus is not on the story line, and clearly on the bustline, as various fine babes vie for the attentions of Brady, including a squaw played by Rita Gam. One scene depicts what appears to be an Iroquois version of a wet T-shirt contest, with Gam the clear winner. On the DVD you'll find optional Japanese subtitles, lengthy notes on the cast and crew, and what appears to be a fairly unfaded print of the film with vivid colors. --Jim Gay

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I'll come back for you!

MOHAWK is a delightfully bad movie that succeeds despite itself. Ostensibly about a 18th century frontier painter (Scott Brady), it's really nothing more than an innocent cheesecake (and beefcake) movie saddled to a western plot.
Our hero Brady is away from the post, painting barmaid Greta's (Allison Hayes) picture when his Boston fiancée, Cynthia (Lori Nelson), arrives. Beautiful Mohawk princess (daughter of chief Ted de Corsia) Onida (Rita Gam) isn't on scene yet, but she arrives soon enough to take her place in the three-sided tug-of-war for the attention of our randy paint pusher.
Things are ducky between the white settlers and the Iroquois (There's land enough for everybody, Chief Ted says at one point), save for the bitter machinations of landowner Butler (John Hoyt) and hawkish Tuscarora warrior Rokhawah (Neville Brand.)
With that set-up, it should come as no surprise that most of act three takes place at the besieged white settlement. Connoisseurs of bad westerns should enjoy the dialogue in MOHAWK, too. There's the obligatory mule skinner observation - "When a woman puts her warpaint on she's more dangerous than any injun!" This pleasant, pseudo-Indian speak exchange between the nasty Rokhawah and good Chief Ted's son - "Your tongue is too long!" "Your knife will not shorten it!" Or this pungent observation by, I believe, the warrior Rokhawah - "He who fills his mouth with big words ends by eating dirt!" They don't write them like that anymore. MOHAWK even has a song plunked down in the middle of it - "Love Plays the Strings of My Banjo."
If that's not enough, MOHAWK has war dances that owe quite a bit more to Merce Cunningham than ethnographic research. There are scoundrels in broadcloth and loincloth, glamorously beautiful women, Scott Brady clocking Neville Brand a time or two, an entertaining, movie ending battle scene. What more could you ask for?
The print, in glorious color, seems to have been taken from a decent master. There are some instances of color flutter, but nothing drastic. The disk also contains interesting text biographies of the stars and excerpts, some uncomplimentary, from reviews of the movie. All in all, a discount disk worth a western fan's attention.

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STCOK SHOTS ALONG THE MOHAWK

As Ron Wood mentionned in it's review, most action sequences in MOHAWK comme from John Ford's DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK. This 1939 film provided stock shots for many other movies. In 1944, one shot of Mohawk warriors setting Fonda's place afire in DRUMS was used in BUFFALO BILL. Battle scenes around the fort were then used in MOHAWK. Almost the same scenes were used again in the pilot episode of the DANIEL BOONE TV series starring Fess Parker in the mid-60s.

As far as stock shots are concerned, BUFFALO BILL seems to be the absolute winner, at least in the western genre. Stock shots of the battle scene (War Bonnet Creek) were used by Fox in numerous productions. PONY SOLDIER with Tyrone Power (begining of the movie). SIEGE AT FEATHER RIVER (end of the movie, which was produced by Panoramic which provided FOX with B pictures). THE TIME TUNNEL TV series (Episode : Little Big Horn) also used the battle to pass as Custer's famous last stand.
Another depiction of that battle, from THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON starring Errol Flynn, was used in BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON starring Ray Milland. Though THEY DIED was black and white, and BUGLES Technicolor, the stock shot did fit because it was being watch through binoculars by Ray Milland and modified from black and white to sepia.

If anyone knows of other stock shots in westerns, I'd be glad to read about that.

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