Vintage 1951 DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH 1/2 Sheet RKO Radio Pictures Movie Poster

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You're bidding on a :Vintage 1951 DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH 1/2 Sheet RKO Radio Pictures Movie Poster• 14 x 11" inchesSee pictures for conditionHello and Welcome to Frankly Antiques. We appreciate your business and aim to give you a ◽️ deal.We strive for 5 star service and your 100% satisfaction. Please contact me to resolve any problems rather than leaving negative comments or feedback.I always ship within 1 business day or less and provide tracking with every purchase! You will not have to wait around for your item.GUARANTEED SAFE AND STURDY PACKAGING! Buy with confidence!International Bidders are welcome. (Tracking is NOT provided on First Class International Packages)Thank you for viewing my listing, we look forward to doing business with you. and God BlessSincerelyChris VovilliaFrankly Antiques"Drums in the Deep SouthDirected by William Cameron MenziesProduced by Frank King (producer)Maurice King (producer)Written by Philip Yordan (screenplay) andSidney Harmon (screenplay)Hollister Noble (story)Starring James CraigBarbara PaytonGuy MadisonBarton MacLaneMusic by Dimitri TiomkinCinematography Lionel LindonEdited by Richard V. HeermanceDistributed by RKO Radio PicturesRelease datesOctober 16, 1951 (US)[1]Running time87 minutesCountry United StatesLanguage EnglishDrums in the Deep South is an American Civil War war film designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies who was production designer of David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind (1939) and also designed the cave sequences in Selznick's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938). Based on a story by Civil War author Hollister Noble, the film was produced by an independent company King Brothers Productions, filmed in SuperCineColor and released by RKO Pictures in September 1951. B. Reeves Eason directed the second unit.PlotBest friends Clay Clayburn and Will Denning graduate from West Point and visit their friend and fellow graduate Braxton at his Georgia plantation in 1861. Clay had once loved Braxton's wife Kathy and still does. When war is declared they soon find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War.By 1864, Clay now an Field Artillery Major in the Confederacy is renowned for accepting but surviving suicide missions. He is given another. To delay General Sherman's March to the Sea, a local guide can lead a party of men and their disassembled cannon inside caves that lead to the top of Devil's Mountain where a battery of guns can destroy the railroad and the Union troop and supply trains that travel it, buying time for the Confederacy. Devil's Mountain is coincidentally near Braxton (who is now fighting elsewhere for the Confederacy) and Kathy's old plantation where Kathy remains with her uncle. Kathy agrees to monitor the activities of the Northern invaders and signal Clay's outpost from her window through a mirror by day and a lantern by night. Through her activities, Clay's men are notified of the arrival two supply trains and destroy both of them.Arriving at the plantation is Will, who is now a Major in the Union Field Artillery. When the two men meet each other in combat, neither knows it as each is in an artillery position hundreds of yards from the other. However, the love of Clay's life, Kathy Summers, does know and tries desperately to save her two good friends from killing each other.The Union Field Artillery cannot achieve the elevation or range with their cannon to clear the Confederate guns at the top of the mountain. Inside the mountain, the Union Infantry cannot find the path to the top and are delayed by Confederate snipers.As the railroad line has been blocked by two destroyed trains, Union headquarters send a giant Naval Dahlgren gun manned by sailors and mounted on a flat car that has the capability to wipe out the Confederates. Kathy is able to supply Clay's guns with wire from her piano that is used to reinforce the barrel of one of Clay's guns that with a double charge and maximum elevation is able to destroy the Naval Gun and further block the railroad line.Will has Union Army Engineers mine the inside of the mountain with explosives that will literally blow the top of the mountain. Kathy wishes to act as a mediator to get Clay and his men to surrender that the Union army is keen on as it will save time. However, Clay calculates that the explosion will send the cliff down over the railway line further blocking the Union's supplies.CastJames Craig as Maj. Clay ClayburnBarbara Payton as Kathy SummersGuy Madison as Maj. Will DenningBarton MacLane as Sgt. Mac McCardleRobert Osterloh as Sgt. HarperTom Fadden as PurdyRobert Easton as JerryLouis Jean Heydt as Col. HouseCraig Stevens as Col. Braxton SummersTaylor Holmes as Albert MonroeLewis Martin as Gen. JohnstonPeter Brocco as Union corporalDan White as Corp. JenningsUnbilled playersRobert Clarke: Union officerKenne Duncan: Union OfficerRoy Gordon: Lt. Col. FitzgeraldJames Griffith: Union officer who reports to Maj. DenningMyron Healey: Union lieutenantTodd Karns: Union captainNorman Leavitt: Confederate soldierFrank Marlowe: Confederate soldierTom Monroe: Confederate soldierBilly Nelson: Union sergeantSteve Pendleton: Capt. TravisDenver Pyle: Union soldier who breaks the windowMickey Simpson: Jim Burns, Confederate soldierRay Walker: Union officerGuy Wilkerson: Confederate sentry"[Wikipedia ®] read more

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