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1954
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- Distant Drums is a flawed but quite watchable soldiers-vs.-Indians movie. The novelty of the Everglades setting and the snappy storytelling do a lot to make up for the flimsiness of the character development. The mostly excellent HD transfer puts this firmly in Recommended territory.
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Distant Drums is a movie for Gary Cooper. ( Captain Quincy Wyatt) fans; if you like his work like The Real Glory, you will enjoy this ( although the earlier film had a better cast ( including David Niven). It is about Cooper and a bunch of survivors including eventual love interest Judy Beckett ( Mari.
Distant Drums 1951 1h 41m Western List Reviews 42% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings A captain (Gary Cooper) and an Army company fight gunrunners and Seminoles in the Everglades.
- (13)
- Raoul Walsh
- Western
- Gary Cooper
Distant Drums is wildly historically inaccurate, received mixed reviews upon release, and was a moderate financial success. It is notable for being the source of the Wilhelm scream sound effect, which is believed to have been voiced by cast member Sheb Wooley and is used when a supporting character is attacked by an alligator .
- $2.85 million (US rentals)
- Max Steiner
- Milton Sperling
1h 41m. Western. Directed By: Raoul Walsh. Warner Bros., United States Pictures. Distant Drums Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Dennis Schwartz Dennis...
Distant Drums: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal. After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.
- (2.3K)
- Raoul Walsh
- Approved
- Action, Adventure, Drama
Jul 2, 2015 · Review: The setting helps lift this film above the norm. It features a couple of well-filmed battle sequences and a few other unusual sights — like Cooper and his men finding that their lost colleagues have been dropped into a pool of alligators … and Cooper scaring a Seminole into telling the truth by threatening him with a water moccasin.
Reviews. Dec 31, 1950 11:00pm PT. Distant Drums. This goes back to 1840 and the Seminole War to spin an action-adventure tale grooved along conventional fiction lines. The stock setup was...
