
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
Devereaux Jennings
Visual Effects
Paul K. Lerpae
Visual Effects

Victor Young
Original Music Composer

Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Stanley J. Sawley
Set Decoration

Polly Burson
Stunts
Jack Crosby
Choreographer

Natalie Kalmus
Color Designer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
Walter H. Tyler
Art Direction
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