Johnny Mack Brown and Eleanor Boardman play a pair of young lovers who sign on
with Daniel Boone played by John Miljan to go west and settle the wilderness
that is Kentucky. They go through the usual travails of a pioneer couple.
Something similar happens to Brown that happened to Boone in real life. He's captured by the Shawnee after he kills their chief and is held prisoner for two years. Boardman thinking he's dead marries best friend Gavin Gordon. I think you can figure out the rest.
This was a big budget item for MGM in 1931. Nice realistic scenes of the pioneer experience. Only that the big Indian attack is made like the prairie tribes would do, on horseback. I guess that's what Indian attacks are supposed to look like. In fact too many horses in the film at all.
Still this was a good drama and the players acquit themselves well.
Something similar happens to Brown that happened to Boone in real life. He's captured by the Shawnee after he kills their chief and is held prisoner for two years. Boardman thinking he's dead marries best friend Gavin Gordon. I think you can figure out the rest.
This was a big budget item for MGM in 1931. Nice realistic scenes of the pioneer experience. Only that the big Indian attack is made like the prairie tribes would do, on horseback. I guess that's what Indian attacks are supposed to look like. In fact too many horses in the film at all.
Still this was a good drama and the players acquit themselves well.