Drums in the Deep South
This is a really great classic movie that should be on the must
see list of anyone who enjoys the old classics.
The story starts out with two best friends who are graduating
from West Point. The friends, Clay Clyburn and Will Denning, quickly find
themselves embroiled in the Civil War; unfortunately they are fighting on
opposite sides. As the movie progresses, they are fighting against one another;
however, they have no idea that they are literally fighting against one another
just a few hundred yards away from one another.
While this film is a really good war movie, it also depicts a love triangle
between the two best friends and Kathy, the woman they are both in love with.
Although they both love her, only one of them marries her. When they are both
away fighting in the war, Kathy discovers that they are embroiled in a battle
being waged near her home when her manor is taken by Union forces.
Although she
is virtually a prisoner in her own home, she later discovers there is a plot to
blow up some explosives near the area. She is reunited with her former lover and
knows that she must do something to not only save her lover but also keep the
two men from killing one another.
Not only does this movie have a really good story line but if you happen to be a
history buff you will really enjoy the fact that some effort was obviously taken
in making sure that the details for this time period were taken seriously. The
uniforms appear to be quite right and not at all hokey.
Most films about the Civil War in the 1950s have a kind of cardboard ending but
that isn't the case with this movie. There are some twists and turns that you
don't expect and you don't feel as though you come away knowing what was going
to happen the whole time.
Actors: James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison
Run time: 1:26:08 hrs
File size: 378.2 Mb
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