
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.
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DirectorCecil B. DeMille
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
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Keywords
london, englandbritish empirefrontiersman18th centurynative american tribebritish colonialismindian uprisingwhite slaveryiroquoiscolony of virginiamilitary fort
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63
Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 4, 2026









