Movie Night at the Museum

The Northwest Montana History Museum’s Movie Night at the Museum will screen the 1965 film “Shenandoah” starring James Stewart at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28.

The Civil War film also stars Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, and Patrick Wayne with Katharine Ross and Rosemary Forsyth making their film debuts. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, the movie soundtrack prominently features the familiar American folk song “Oh Shenandoah.”

In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in 1864, family patriarch Charlie Anderson (Stewart) only wants to be left alone to manage his farm along with his six sons, daughter Jennie (Forsyth), and daughter-in-law Ann (Ross). They are not slave owners, and Charlie is not concerned with the fight between North and South nor the skirmishes and battles being fought throughout the area. He only wants to be left in peace, to attend church on Sunday (to which his large family is always late) and work his farm. While some of his sons want to fight for the Confederacy, they respect their father’s wishes and stay on the farm. But after daughter Jennie marries a Confederate officer (McClure), events bring the war to his front door and his family into the conflict.