Drums Across the River (1954)

Drums Across the River (1954) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Collectors Edition
Interactive Menu
Posters
Scene Access
Special Edition
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1954 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Nathan Juran

Written By:
John K. Butler
Lawrence Roman

Actors:
Audie Murphy ..... Gary Brannon
Walter Brennan ..... Sam Brannon
Lyle Bettger ..... Frank Walker
Lisa Gaye ..... Jennie
Hugh O'Brian ..... Morgan
Mara Corday ..... Sue
Jay Silverheels ..... Taos
Emile Meyer ..... Nathan Marlowe
Regis Toomey ..... Sheriff Jim Beal
Morris Ankrum ..... Chief Ouray
Bob Steele ..... Billy Costa
James Anderson ..... Jed Walker
George Wallace ..... Les Walker
Lane Bradford ..... Ralph Costa
Howard McNear ..... Stilwell

Synopsis:

Crown City, Colorado, may become a ghost town; the only gold left is in Ute Indian land. Gary Brannon, an honest man who hates Indians, joins a mission to try for mining concessions; but crooked Frank Walker, more realistically, plans to start an Indian war. Gary and his wiser father Sam have their hands full keeping the peace, and Walker has lots more schemes up his sleeve. More plot twists than the average Western.

The once booming gold town of Crown City, Colorado has fallen on hard times. The only gold left is across the river, on Ute Indian land. Crown City resident Sam Brannon, and the Ute leader Chief Ouray, have worked hard to keep peace between the whites and the Indians, but Sam's wife was killed by a drunken Ute brave, and Sam's son Gary blames all Utes for her death. When Frank Walker hatches a plan to start an Indian war so that the Utes will be forced off their lands and on to a reserva- tion, he starts by conning desperate townspeople, including Gary, into joining him in an expedition to find gold on Ute land. Once across the river, the expedition is quickly intercepted by Ute braves. Sam Brannon arrives and succeeds in negotiating a truce and exchange of prisoners, but during the prisoner exchange, Walker's men open fire on the Indians. Sam is wounded in the ensuing skirmish, as is Chief Ouray's son, Taos. It falls to Gary Brannon to return Taos to the Ute camp and plead with Chief Ouray not to retaliate against the people of Crown City. Gary succeeds, but his success is short-lived. Walker kidnaps Gary's father, and forces Gary to participate in a stagecoach massacre designed to look like the work of a Ute war party. Gary must find a way to prove his innocence, rescue his father, and expose Walker's scheme before Walker succeeds in inciting war between the whites and Indians.

When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

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