Watch Distant Drums (1951) Free Online

Release Date: 1951

Cast: Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Barrat, Carl Harbaugh, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Gary Cooper, Ray Teal

Categories: Movies, Western, Historical fiction, Action, Action/Adventure, Romance Film

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. The title of Pedro... MORE

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. 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). 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 LESS