Eddie Collins

Lawless frontier. Indian attacks. Settlers protecting themselves the only way they know how-with guns and courage. In the years before the Revolutionary War, the East was as wild as the West would be one hundred years later. Henry Fonda delivers one of his most memorable performances ever as a young frontier leader protecting his family in the backwoods of New York state. Claudette Colbert so-stars as his spirited wife. With a fine supporting cast that also includes Edna May Oliver and John Carradine, this is one of John Ford's most exciting historical dramas.

John Ford's direction is superb in this fictionalized account of ten early years in the life of the American President. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois to begin a law practice where he defends two men accused of murder in a brawl, courts his future wife and agrees to go into politics.

A rambunctious wood chopper's daughter receives a message from a fairy instructing her to find a bluebird, which will bring her and others happiness.