This movie is from around 1940 and stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Young and Walter Brennan. The year: 1756. The French and Indian wars. Robert Young a Harvard dropout aspiring artist gets in trouble back home and flees his New England town and Spencer Tracy kidnaps him/dupes him into joining his militia. The militia suffers mightily from privation. They climb a mountain carrying their canoes. They cross a river without canoes. They attack a town of Indians and Robert Young is injured. The hunger of the men is so great that they outvote their leader, Spencer Tracy and decide to split up in order to get some food. Most of them die in ambushes after they split up. They finally reach their objective- a fort, but it is empty when they get there. But when Spencer prays, the British show up with food and save the day.
The movie gets a C. Nothing special. But it's nice to see Spencer Tracy. Brennan is okay, same old character. Robert Young seems rather new at the game and any one of a dozen people could have succeeded as well at the role.
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