Distant Drums (1951)

Directors

Raoul Walsh

Cast

Gary Cooper, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon, Arthur Hunnicutt, Carl Harbaugh, Ray Teal

The story

thumb|right|Mari Aldon and Richard Webb at the Castillo de San Marcos for the film's premiere. During the Second Seminole War in 1840, American general Zachary Taylor sends naval lieutenant Tufts and scout Monk to a remote Florida island home, where the reclusive captain Quincy Wyatt lives with his five-year-old son. The soldiers' mission is to destroy an old Spanish fort being used as a base for Spanish gunrunners aiding the Seminoles, and they convince the reluctant Wyatt to lead the small strike force as Taylor had requested.

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