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Drum Beat

6.1 111 mins Western   1954
Jaguar Productions   Ladd Enterprises   Warner Bros. Pictures  
Director(s): Delmer Daves

Release Date: 10 Wed, Nov 1954

President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.

Casts of Drum Beat

Alan Ladd

as Johnny MacKay

Audrey Dalton

as Nancy Meek

Marisa Pavan

as Toby

Robert Keith

as Bill Satterwhite

Rodolfo Acosta

as Scarface Charlie

Charles Bronson

as Kintpuash

Warner Anderson

as Gen. Canby

Elisha Cook Jr.

as Blaine Crackel

Anthony Caruso

as Manok

Richard Gaines

as Dr. Thomas

Hayden Rorke

as President Ulysses S. Grant

Frank De Kova

as Modoc Jim

Perry Lopez

as Bogus Charlie

Isabel Jewell

as Lily White

Peggy Converse

as Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant

Pat Lawless

as O'Brien

Frank Ferguson

as Mr. Dyar

George J. Lewis

as Capt. Alonzo Clark

Peter Hansen

as Lt. Goodsall

Willis Bouchey

as Gen. Gilliam

Strother Martin

as Scotty

Edgar Stehli

as Jesse Grant

Richard H. Cutting

as Col. Meek

Michael Daves

as Young Boddy

Paul Wexler

as William Boddy

Denver Pyle

as Fairchild (uncredited)

Oliver Blake

as Minister (uncredited)

Danny Borzage

as Soldier (uncredited)

Nora Bush

as Granny (uncredited)

Oliver Cross

as Officer (uncredited)

Juney Ellis

as Mrs. Boddy (uncredited)

Frank Gerstle

as Grant's Officer (uncredited)

James Griffith

as Veteran One-Legged Soldier at White House Gate (uncredited)

Dee Carroll

as Young Widow (uncredited)

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