Distant Drums (1951)
With Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Arthur Hunnicutt, Carl Harbaugh, Robert Barrat, Ray Teal, Clancy Cooper
Directed by Raoul Walsh
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.
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