Distant Drums

Distant Drums
Distant Drums

Movie poster for the film Distant Drums
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Produced by Milton Sperling
Written by Niven Busch
Martin Rackin
Starring Gary Cooper
Richard Webb
Mari Aldon
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography Sidney Hickox
Editing by Folmar Blangsted
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) United States December 25, 1951 (New York City, New York)
December 29 (wide)
France February 13, 1952
Italy March 27
Germany August 1
Hong Kong September 11
Finland September 19
Japan December 18
Running time 101 min.
Country United States
Language English
Mari Aldon and Richard Webb in Florida for the movie premiere.

Distant Drums is a 1951 film (more specifically, a "Florida Western") 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 destroys a fort held by the Seminole Indians then retreats into the Everglades while under chase.

The actual location of the fort in the film was the historic Castillo de San Marcos.

The enduring legacy of this movie is the earliest known use of the Wilhelm scream sound effect, originally used to vocalize a character being torn to pieces by an alligator.[1]

The title of Pedro Almodóvar's film Tacones lejanos (literally "Distant Heels" but released as High Heels) is a reference to the Spanish title of this film (Tambores lejanos).

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Plot

In 1840, U.S. Army General Zachary Taylor sends out Lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island home where the reclusive Captain Quincy Watts lives with a 5-year-old son.

The soldiers' mission is to rescue men and women taken prisoner by Seminole warriors. One of them, Judy Beckett, develops a romantic attraction to Capt. Watts as they flee the Indians into the Everglades.

Most of the other Army troops are massacred after Watts and Tufts separate from them to construct canoes. Back at his home, Watts is distraught to find that his son is gone. He has an underwater fight to the death with Seminole chief Ocala, then is relieved to learn that his boy is safe.

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