Film
Drums of Love
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Year
- 1928
Based on the Historical Incident of Francesca da Rimini
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.
Top cast
Mary Philbin
Princess Emanuella
Lionel Barrymore
Duke Cathos de Alvia
Don Alvarado
Count Leonardo de Alvia
Tully Marshall
Bopi
Eugenie Besserer
Duchess de Alvia
Charles Hill Mailes
Duke de Granada
Rosemary Cooper
The Maid
Joyce Coad
The Little Sister
Ethel Jackson
Bit Role
Billy Seay
Leonardo as a Boy
William Austin
Raymond of Boston
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Written by
Gerrit J. Lloyd
