Drums of Love (1928)
The Drums of Love
Based on the Historical Incident of Francesca da Rimini
100 min
Princess Emmanuella agrees to wed the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep peace between their two countries. However, when the Duke's handsome brother arrives to escort her to her new husband, she finds herself attracted to him, and even moreso when she discovers that her future husband, whom she has never met, is ugly, brutish, and deformed.
- Release date
- January 24, 1928
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Charles Wakefield Cadman, Sol Cohen
Cast
- Mary Philbin as Princess Emanuella
- Lionel Barrymore as Duke Cathos de Alvia
- Don Alvarado as Count Leonardo de Alvia
- Tully Marshall as Bopi
- William Austin as Raymond of Boston
- Eugenie Besserer as Duchess de Alvia
- Charles Hill Mailes as Duke de Granada
- Rosemary Cooper as The Maid
- Joyce Coad as The Little Sister
- Barbara Bozoky as Undetermined Role
Crew
- D.W. Griffith · Director
- Gerrit J. Lloyd · Writer
- D.W. Griffith · Producer
- Charles Wakefield Cadman · Composer
- Sol Cohen · Composer
- G.W. Bitzer · Cinematographer
- Harry Jackson · Cinematographer
- Karl Struss · Cinematographer
- James Smith · Editor