England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Cast
Gary Cooper
Captain Christopher Holden
Paulette Goddard
Abby
Howard Da Silva
Garth
Boris Karloff
Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
Cecil Kellaway
Jeremy Love
Ward Bond
John Fraser
Katherine DeMille
Hannah
Henry Wilcoxon
Captain Steele
C. Aubrey Smith
Lord Chief Justice
Victor Varconi
Captain Simeon Ecuyer
Virginia Grey
Diana
Porter Hall
Leach
Mike Mazurki
Bone
Richard Gaines
Colonel George Washington
Virginia Campbell
Mrs. John Fraser
Gavin Muir
Lieut. Fergus McKenzie
Alan Napier
Sir William Johnson
Ninetta Sunderland
Mrs. Pruitt
Marc Lawrence
Medicine Man Sioto
Jane Nigh
Evelyn
Raymond Hatton
Venango Scout
John Mylong
Colonel Henry Bouquet
George Kirby
London Astronomer Charles Mason
Leonard Carey
London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon
Frank Wilcox
Richard Henry Lee
Davison Clark
Mr. Carroll of Virginia
Griff Barnett
Brother Andrews of Pennsylvania
Lloyd Bridges
Lieut. Hutchins
Oliver Thorndike
Lieut. Baillie
Rus Conklin
Mamaultee
Iron Eyes Cody
Red Corn
Julia Faye
Widow Swivens
Paul E. Burns
Dan McCoy
Mary Field
Maggie
Diane Wadelow
Lancashire Lass
Clarence Muse
Jason
Cecil B. DeMille
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Dorothy Adams
Woman at Fort Pitt (uncredited)
James Flavin
Villager (uncredited)
Francis Ford
Frontiersman on Fort Pitt Roof (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Townsman (uncredited)
Beulah Archuletta
Seneca Woman (uncredited)
Crew
Cecil B. DeMille
Director, Producer
Charles Bennett
Screenplay
Fredric M. Frank
Screenplay
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Screenplay
Neil H. Swanson
Novel
Anne Bauchens
Editor
Ray Rennahan
Director of Photography
Edward Salven
Assistant Director
Gwen Wakeling
Costume Designer
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
Arthur Rosson
Second Unit Director
John Cope
Sound Recordist
Hugo Grenzbach
Sound Recordist
Gordon Jennings
Visual Effects Director
Paul K. Lerpae
Visual Effects
Devereaux Jennings
Visual Effects
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
Stanley J. Sawley
Set Decoration
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Polly Burson
Stunts
Jack Crosby
Choreographer
Natalie Kalmus
Color Designer
Walter H. Tyler
Art Direction
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
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