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TitleDrums of Love (1928)
Alternative/Original Title
DisabilityDisfigurement Curved spine
CountryUSA
Length?
GenreCostume drama
Rating?
DirectorD.W. Griffith
CastDon Alvarado William Austin Lionel Barrymore Eugenie Besserer Joyce Coad Rosemary Cooper Charles Hill Mailes Tully Marshall Mary Philbin
NotesB/W. After the Italian tragedy Francesca da Rimini Set in 18th Century Portugese South America. A Duke is entering into an arranged marriage with the much younger daughter of a political rival. But she doesn't know he is so old and has a distorted spine. However the Duke sends his younger, and good looking brother ahead of him and the two fall in love. A courtier spies on them, informs the Duke and he kills them both and then himself. But when the tragic ending didn't go down well with preview audiences Griffith re-shot it allowing the young couple to live though the disabled husband still dies.

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