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.
Cast
- Gary Cooper as Captain Christopher Holden
- Paulette Goddard as Abby
- Howard Da Silva as Garth
- Boris Karloff as Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
- Cecil Kellaway as Jeremy Love
- Ward Bond as John Fraser
- Katherine DeMille as Hannah
- Henry Wilcoxon as Captain Steele
- C. Aubrey Smith as Lord Chief Justice
- Victor Varconi as Captain Simeon Ecuyer