Drum Beat

Year: 1954

Runtime: 111 mins

Language: English

Director: Delmer Daves

Western

President Grant commissions Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon and to escort Nancy Meek to her relatives’ home. When Captain Jack launches ambushes and atrocities, MacKay confronts him in hand‑to‑hand combat, using guns, knives and fists, as the Modocs’ drumbeats herald the violence.

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