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Distant Drums is a 1951 American Florida Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gary Cooper. It is set during the Second Seminole War in the 1840s, with Cooper playing an Army captain who successfully destroys a fort held by Spanish gunrunners and is pursued into the Everglades by a large group of Seminoles.
- $2.85 million (US rentals)
- Max Steiner
- Milton Sperling
Distant Drums is a movie about a naval lieutenant and a scout who fight the Seminole Indians in Florida. It features Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb and the first known instance of the Wilhelm Scream sound effect.
- (2.3K)
- Raoul Walsh
- Approved
- Action, Adventure, Drama
"Distant Drums" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964.
- "Falling"
- May 1963
- January 4, 1963
- Pop
A classic western adventure film starring Gary Cooper as a soldier who fights through the Everglades to return home after destroying a Seminole fort. The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and released in 1951. See cast, crew, genre, release date, and more details on the web page.
- Raoul Walsh, Russ Saunders
- Gary Cooper
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