Distant Drums
- Gary Cooper: Captain Quincy Wyatt
- Mari Aldon: Judy Beckett
- Richard Webb: Lt. Richard Tufts
- Ray Teal: Soldier Mohair
- Arthur Hunnicutt: Monk
- Robert Barrat: General Zachary Taylor
The Devils Brigade is an American film director Raoul Walsh Western of from 1951 with Gary Cooper in the lead role.
Action
Captain Quincy Wyatt lives in 1840 with his five year old son and some Indian servants on an island in a lagoon in Florida. To a gang of smugglers, the insurgent Indians supplied with weapons, lay the craft, a special command is compiled by the American army.
Wyatt, who knows the area well, is transferred the leadership of the troop. It is possible to make the loophole of the smugglers and the Indian locate and blow up. Same time, several prisoners can be freed. Among them is Judy Beckett.
The group tries to return immediately, but will soon be followed by the Indians and must escape into the swamps. Despite the dangerous circumstances Judy in love with Wyatt. The Indians can kill a majority of the team. With great effort, a small band of survivors manages the return to the island of Wyatt.
His son and his Indian servants have disappeared and burned down his house. They are enclosed by the Indians. Wyatt asks the chief out to a duel and defeated him. The remaining Indians are beaten by the timely arrival of a brigade of General Zachary Taylor to flee. His son is well cared for with the General. Judy stays with Wyatt and his son.
Reviews
" Incontinent scale naive Wild West saga with many inconsistencies, staged in very bright colors. "
Background
The screenplay is based on a story by Niven Busch.
For lead actor Gary Cooper it was after Secret Service his second collaboration with producer Milton Sperling and his only film with director Raoul Walsh, who moved the events in Objective Burma in the Western film rather unusual Wetlands of Florida, the Everglades. The so-called Wilhelm Scream has been used here for the first time.
The Warner Bros. brought the film in 1952 in the West German cinemas. In this modern common Gary Cooper was dubbed the voice of Wolf Martini.