Not a Drum Was Heard (1924)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

Western film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

50 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent western about a soldier whose funeral procession passes through a remote outpost. The story follows the quiet journey of mourners as they honor the dead.

desolatesomberslowsilentmelancholicvisually sparseformal

What happens

Not a Drum Was Heard is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by William A. Wellman. The title is taken from the first line of Charles Wolfe's poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna":Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,As his corse{sic} to the rampart we hurried;Not a soldier discharged his farewell shotO'er the grave where our hero we buried. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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