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Drums Across the River is a 1954 American Technicolor Western film directed by Nathan Juran and starring Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan and Lyle Bettger.
Drums Across the River: Directed by Nathan Juran. With Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lyle Bettger, Lisa Gaye. When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
- (1.1K)
- Drama, Western
- Nathan Juran
- 1954-06
Gary Brannon (Audie) and his father run a freight business. Gold is buried in the San Juan Mountains where it is forbidden for the white man to mine. Gary's father is kidnapped and Gary is forced...
- 79 min
- 110.3K
- Western movies
Mar 28, 2011 · Considered by some critics the best of Audie Murphy's early-1950s Westerns, Drums Across the River (1954) boasts an involving plot, outstanding supporting cast and typically concise, straightforward direction by Nathan Juran, who had directed Murphy the previous year in Gunsmoke and Tumbleweed.
- Nathan Juran, Tom Shaw, James Welch
- Audie Murphy
Greedy Frank Walker (Lyle Bettger) rounds up the locals and makes plans to raid the Ute territory, but even-tempered settler Sam Brannon (Walter Brennan) tries to dissuade Walker from launching ...
- Western
- Audie Murphy
- Nathan Juran
- Universal International Pictures
Drums Across the River (1954) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Crown City, Colorado, may become a ghost town; the only gold left is in Ute Indian land. Gary Brannon, an honest man who hates Indians, joins a mission to try for mining concessions; but crooked Frank Walker, more realistically, plans to start an Indian war.
