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Distant Drums 1951 123movies

Distant Drums 1951 123movies

Against unseen jungle terrors and untamed savage tribes ... and pounding war-drums that echoed his challenge!Dec. 25, 1951101 Min.
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Watch: Distant Drums 1951 123movies, Full Movie Online – Navy Lieutenant Tufts accompanies scout Quincy Wyatt into the Everglades to rout the Seminole Indians who are threatening the early settlers in Florida. When the command is forced to run, Wyatt and Seminole Chief Oscala square off in an exciting climax..
Plot: After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety
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Mundane plotting off set by zippy action and smart location work.
Distant Drums is directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Gary Cooper, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon & Arthur Hunnicutt. Known as a “Florida Western,” the film is set during the Seminole Wars in the 1840s. It’s written by Niven Busch and Martin Rackin, photographed predominantly on location in the Florida Everglades (in Technicolor) by Sidney Hickox and Max Steiner scores the music. Plot sees Cooper playing an Army captain who after destroying a fort held by the Seminole Indians retreats with his party into the Everglades where many of natures dangers lurk as the Seminole pursue them.

Not one for fans of Cooper, Walsh or Busch to get excited about. The story is as conventional as it gets, complete with a romantic angle, and the dialogue is boorish and lacking imagination. Were it not for the excellently constructed action sequences (check out the under water scenes) and the lush location photography, then this one would be consigned to the “please steer away from” pile. Busch is the main culprit since his writing is confused as to what it wants to achieve. The Seminole Indians are painted as savages, thus giving a one sided feel to a War not often seen in movies, yet other Native Americans are handled more sympathetically via the portrayal from Cooper. All in all we learn nothing about the War and the people involved as the film winds up as a jungle like adventure built around a number of set pieces.

Cooper is rugged and watchable as an Alligator Dundee type and Hunnicutt as always leaves a favourable impression as the scout. Mari Aldon is pretty but pretty one dimensional, while Richard Webb just seems out of place in the perilous locale and therefore unconvincing. But as previously mentioned, nobody here is helped by the tepid script. It’s believed that this movie features the earliest known use of the Wilhelm Scream sound effect, a technique used to vocalise a character being torn to shreds by an alligator. A standard film it is then, one that really should have been a fine entry into a sadly untapped in to topic. It’s like getting a beautifully wrapped birthday present that when opened reveals nothing but strips of mouldy old newspaper. 5/10

Review By: hitchcockthelegend
Okay western set in the Florida Everglades
When one thinks of westerns one typically thinks of things like wide open plains, scrubland and the cavalry in a wooden fort… here we have swamps, jungle and the Indians in a stone fort… this is a Florida Western! The story opens with US Navy Lieutenant Richard Tufts arriving in Florida with a small boat which he has taken overland to Lake Okeechobee. He travels separately and meets up with Capt. Quincy Wyatt, who will lead the mission against an old Spanish fort on the opposite side of the lake which is being used by the Seminole Indians. One would have expected this mission to be the main part of the story but it is all over fairly quickly; the real story is about how they, and some rescued prisoners, escape through the alligator infested Everglade swamps with the Seminole chasing after them. Not all of them will make it; some will die at the hands of the Seminole, others to the alligators!

The Florida setting certainly gave this film a different feel to just about every other western I’ve seen; usually the worst natural danger in a western is a rattlesnake but the alligators here were more frightening and there saw a surprising amount of blood shown when one of the men was killed by one. There was a decent amount of action including a knife fight that takes place underwater! The acting is okay but lead Gary Cooper is nowhere near as good as he was in ‘High Noon’; I guess this is down to the material he had to work with. Love interest Mari Alden looks pretty but her character isn’t particularly interesting; we learn that she isn’t quite the Southern lady she makes out to be but that revelation hardly affects her character. I’m not sure whether this will appeal to fans of conventional westerns; I think it is more likely to appeal to fans of adventure stories.

Review By: Tweekums

Other Information:

Original Title Distant Drums
Release Date 1951-12-25
Release Year 1951

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Director Raoul Walsh
Writer Niven Busch, Martin Rackin
Actors Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, USA (color by) (as Technicolor)
Film Length 2,759 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Distant Drums 1951 123movies
Distant Drums 1951 123movies
Distant Drums 1951 123movies
Distant Drums 1951 123movies
Distant Drums 1951 123movies
Distant Drums 1951 123movies
Original title Distant Drums
TMDb Rating 6.375 52 votes

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