Overview
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.
Production
Paramount Pictures
Cast & Characters
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
Directors & Crew
Cecil B. DeMille
Director
Charles Bennett
Screenplay
Fredric M. Frank
Screenplay
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Screenplay
Cecil B. DeMille
Producer
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