Drums of Destiny
Appearance
Drums of Destiny | |
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Directed by | Ray Taylor |
Written by | Roger Whately John T. Neville |
Produced by | E.B. Derr Frank Melford |
Starring | Tom Keene Edna Lawrence Budd Buster |
Cinematography | Arthur Martinelli |
Edited by | Finn Ulback |
Music by | Abe Meyer |
Production company | Crescent Pictures |
Distributed by | Crescent Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Drums of Destiny is a 1937 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Tom Keene, Edna Lawrence and Budd Buster.[1]
It sometimes confused with the 1937 film Old Louisiana also made by Crescent and starring Keene, which was originally known by this title.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Frank Dexter.
Plot
[edit]Following the War of 1812 a force of American troops are raised to combat Spanish-led Indian attacks from Spanish Florida.
Cast
[edit]- Tom Keene as Capt. Jerry Crawford
- Edna Lawrence as Rosa Maria Dominguez
- Budd Buster as Kentuck
- Ray Bennett as Jenkins
- Robert Fiske as Bill Holston
- Carlos De Valdez as Don Salvador Dominguez
- David Sharp as Lt. Bill Crawford
- John Merton as Toby Simmons
- Chief Flying Cloud as Indian
- Henry Hall as Pa Green
- Chief Many Treaties as Indian
- Aurora Navarro as Rosa Maria's Duenna
- Artie Ortego as Indian
- Marin Sais as Ma Green
- Charles Unger as Johnny Green
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gevinson p.736
Bibliography
[edit]- Gevinson, Alan. Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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Categories:
- 1937 films
- 1937 Western (genre) films
- 1930s historical films
- 1930s English-language films
- American historical films
- American Western (genre) films
- Films directed by Ray Taylor
- Films set in the 1810s
- Films set in Florida
- American black-and-white films
- Seminole Wars
- 1930s American films
- English-language Western (genre) films
- English-language historical films
- 1930s Western (genre) film stubs