The 19th-century American frontiersman and politician David “Davy” Crockett was born 230 years ago Wednesday, but not on “a mountaintop in Tennessee”—contrary to the first line of “The Ballad of Davy ...
Colm Meaney steals the show with his villainous turn as the corrupt leader of a fur trading outfit. William Moseley (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) is effectively earnest as the legendary frontiersman in ...