The Warner Archive release of Delmer Daves’s 1954 Drum Beat is cause for celebration. Daves’s Western classics in-clude the original 3:10 to Yuma, the wonderfully layered Cowboy and Broken Arrow. One of the unsung giants, Daves directed these films with a keen eye for realism, but his approach to Drum Beat is more sly and complex. The story of an Indian fighter—portrayed by Alan Ladd, who also produced—and h is conflicts with the Modoc Captain Jack, played by Charles Bronson, begins a
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