Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Directed by John Ford
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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Signs owes its imagistic sources to more than The Birds: it cribs liberally from Drums Along the Mohawk (more precisely, John Sayles précis for an early unmade Spielberg project called "Night Skies" that reimagined Ford's film with aliens), Night of the Living Dead, Field of Dreams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and, crushingly, John Irving's pulp-Christian novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Their dangerous mission involves destroying Lord Voldemort before he can kill Harry, and the story plays out a bit like Drums along the Mohawk, one of the first movies that scared the socks off me.