Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Savage Drums (1951)

Lippert Pictures
Directed by William Berke
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)

Sabu becomes king of a Pacific island after his brother is assassinated on the mainland. He travels home to uncover the killer. He also fights "foreign invaders", really the Japanese, but after they are defeated he signs a treaty with the Americans and is shown standing side-by-side with a friendly Navy officer in the final shot. Even though WWII was long over by 1951, there was still a need for propaganda to justify atomic war testing in Pacific islands such as the fictional one where this movie takes place.

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