--- title: 'Distant Drums (1951)' type: 'film' director: 'Raoul Walsh' released: '1951-01-01' runtime_minutes: 101 genres: - 'Western' - 'War' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/distant-drums-1951' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043469/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Distant Drums (1951) 1951 · 101 min · Western, War · United States ## Synopsis 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 American captain who successfully destroys a fort held by Spanish gunrunners and is pursued into the Everglades by a large group of Seminoles. The fort used in the film was the historic Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, and most of the principal photography occurred on location in Florida. ## Credits - **Director:** [Raoul Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-walsh) - **Screenplay:** [Niven Busch](https://cinepixo.com/people/niven-busch) - **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner) - **Producer:** [Milton Sperling](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-sperling) - **Editor:** [Folmar Blangsted](https://cinepixo.com/people/folmar-blangsted) - **Director of Photography:** [Sidney Hickox](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-hickox) ## Cast - [Mari Aldon](https://cinepixo.com/people/mari-aldon) - [Ray Teal](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-teal) - [Robert Barrat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-barrat) - [Gary Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-cooper) - [Carl Harbaugh](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-harbaugh) - [Clancy Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/clancy-cooper) - [Sheb Wooley](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheb-wooley) - [Arthur Hunnicutt](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hunnicutt) - [Richard Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-webb) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/distant-drums-1951 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1216721); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.