John Ford's adventure story, set in America's Colonial period, follows Gilbert (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) as they attempt to survive the harsh frontier. Following a series of attacks by Indians on their settlement, the couple is taken in by a spinster (Edna May Oliver). Lana gives birth to a son while Gilbert fights the Indians and the British. He returns, wounded, to find his family being attacked by Indians once more.
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John Ford's adventure story, set in America's Colonial period, follows Gilbert (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) as they attempt to survive the harsh frontier. Following a series of attacks by Indians on their settlement, the couple is taken in by a spinster (Edna May Oliver). Lana gives birth to a son while Gilbert fights the Indians and the British. He returns, wounded, to find his family being attacked by Indians once more.
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