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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0017153130034
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 16855
Studio: Republic Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1951
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A remake of OBJECTIVE, BURMA!
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Filmed in color, DISTANT DRUMS (1951) is actually an uncredited remake of an Errol Flynn war movie, OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (1945). Both films were directed by Raoul Walsh.
Re-worked as a "western", but set in the Florida Everglades, the picture, written by Niven Busch and Martin Rackin, stars Gary Cooper as an Army scout, assigned to help put down the Seminole ... Read More
Rating: - IN THE GLADES WITH COOP & THE SEMINOLES
Saw this film in the 50s when I was growing up and just had to have the DVD. Just finished watching it again for the umpteenth time and it seems that it gets better with each watching.
The technicolor is still very good and the acting is equally good. Coop was at least middle aged in this one but he holds up well, and Arthur Hunnicutt does his normal great job. I give the movie a full 5-stars as I do not recall any other movie ever dealing with the 1840s and the Seminole War. ... Read More
Rating:  - Vigorous historical adventure yarn
This is a loose remake of Objective Burma-also directed by Raoul Walsh -with Florida and the Seminole Indians standing in for Burma and the Japanese respectively.Gary Cooper plays Captain Wyatt who at the behest of General Zachary Taylor leads a punitive expedition against the Seminoles .En route they encounter gun runners plying their trade with the Indians and after destroying their fortress liberate their captives,including an attractive young woman played by former ballerina Mari Aldon.They seek to make ... Read More
Rating: - Distant Drums
A great Gary Cooper movie.It has lots of action.The coloring control on my player had to be adjusted, but other wise the print was just fine.If you want a film just to watch and relax with I would reccomend this one.very good Saturday Matinee film.
Ken Barrett.Mooroolbark Victoria Australia
Rating: - Distant Drums
It was very good but it was billed as a western but my limited definition pre-revolutionary war does not classify as a western. I still liked it and would watch it again.
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