Drums of the Desert

Name: Drums of the Desert
Director: John Waters
Genre: Western
Released: 1927-06-04
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Warner Baxter, Marietta Millner, Ford Sterling, Wallace MacDonald, Heinie Conklin

“A big-scale outdoor melodrama-lavishly filmed to depict the mighty human drama of a dying race. 'Twill stir your blood to the quick if you like this kind of a show.”

1927

1h 5m

Western

Director: John Waters

Writer: John Stone

Overview

John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.