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England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

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Nominated for the Oscar for Best Special Effects (1948)
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Box office
Grossed $6.67M worldwide, about 1.5 times its $4.37M budget
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Setting
Set in England
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Music
Music by Victor Young
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Ray Rennahan
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Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Writers: Charles BennettScreenplay
Neil H. SwansonNovel
Fredric M. FrankScreenplay
Jesse Lasky Jr.Screenplay
Status: Released
Release date: October 10, 1947
Original language: English
Budget: $4.4M
Revenue: $6.7M
Countries: United States of America

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