A THUNDER OF DRUMS - DVD-WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Western
• Plot: 'Bachelors make the best soldiers,' declares Capt. Stephen Maddocks (Richard Boone),; who knows the west can only be tamed by men as single-minded as he is. So with; renegade Indians on the warpath, he has no patience for the love triangle that erupts; between greenhorn officers (George Hamilton and James Douglas) and a beauty; (Luana Pattern) promised to one of them - or for the chaos he knows it will cause.Written; by James Warner Bellah, whose stories were the souce for John Ford's Calvary Trilogy,; A Thunder of Drums thunders with Western action and human passions. The standout; cast includes Richard Chamberlain (right at the time he became TV's Dr.Kildare),; '50s guitar legend Duane Eddy, Slim Pickens and , a year after his breakthrough in ; The Magnificent Seven, Charles Bronson.
• Cast: Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O'Connell, Charles Bronson, Richard Chamberlain, James Douglas, Tammy Marihugh, Carole Wells, Duane Eddy, Slim Pickens, Clem Harvey, Casey Tibbs, Irene Tedrow, Marjorie Bennett, J. Edward McKinley, Mark Allen, John Ayres, Ray Dawe, Alice Foote, Frank Gerstle, Darlene Hendricks, Carol Henry, Kenner G. Kemp, Joseph M. Newman, James Warner Bellah
• Director: Joseph M. Newman
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Media Format: Movie