Description

Drums in the Deep South is an American Civil War war film production design and directed by William Cameron Menzies who was production designer of David O. Selznick’s Gone With the Wind (film) (1939) and also designed the cave sequences in Selznick’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film) (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.

Cast

• James Craig (actor) as Maj. Clay Clayburn
• Barbara Payton as Kathy Summers
• Guy Madison as Maj. Will Denning
• Barton MacLane as Sgt. Mac McCardle
• Robert Osterloh as Sgt. Harper
• Tom Fadden as Purdy
• Robert Easton (actor) as Jerry
• Louis Jean Heydt as Col. House
• Craig Stevens (actor) as Col. Braxton Summers
• Taylor Holmes as Albert Monroe
• Lewis Martin (actor) as Gen. Johnston
• Peter Brocco as Union corporal
• Dan White (actor) as Corp. Jennings

Unbilled players

• Robert Clarke: Union officer
• Kenne Duncan: Union Officer
• Roy Gordon: Lt. Col. Fitzgerald
• James Griffith: Union officer who reports to Maj. Denning
• Myron Healey: Union lieutenant
• Todd Karns: Union captain
• Norman Leavitt: Confederate soldier
• Frank Marlowe: Confederate soldier
• Tom Monroe (actor): Confederate soldier
• Billy Nelson (actor): Union sergeant
• Steve Pendleton: Capt. Travis
• Denver Pyle: Union soldier who breaks the window
• Mickey Simpson: Jim Burns, Confederate soldier
• Ray Walker (actor): Union officer
• Guy Wilkerson: Confederate sentry

Soundtrack

• Dixie (song) (by Daniel Decatur Emmett)
• Battle Hymn of the Republic (by William Steffe)
• Barbara Allen (song) (traditional)
• Down by the Riverside
• The Old Gray Mare