Drums of Tahiti is a 1954 Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

 drama directed by William Castle, starring Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...

 and Patricia Medina

Patricia Medina

Patricia Paz Maria Medina is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s...

. Drums of Tahiti was released in 3-D, and was one of three 3-D movies made by director William Castle.

In 1877, Tahitians under the rule of aging Queen Pomare (Frances Brandt) dislike their position as a French protectorate and quietly plan a new war with assistance from Britain.

Cast

• Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...
  
   as Mike Macklin
• Patricia Medina
  Patricia Medina
  Patricia Paz Maria Medina is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s...
  
   as Wanda Spence
• Francis L. Sullivan
  Francis L. Sullivan
  Francis Loftus Sullivan was an English film and stage actor. He attended Stonyhurst, the Jesuit public school in Lancashire, England whose alumni include Charles Laughton and Arthur Conan Doyle.A heavily built man with a striking double-chin and a deep voice, Sullivan made his acting debut at the...
  
   as Commissioner Pierre Duvois
• George Keymas as Angelo
• Sylvia Lewis
  Sylvia Lewis
  Sylvia Lewis is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.-Career:Sylvia Lewis was born in York, Pennsylvania. She first performed as a young child in the last days of vaudeville in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her first classical training as a scholarship student at the Peabody...
  
   as Mawaii
• Cicely Browne as Gay Knight
• Raymond Lawrence as Shoreham
• Frances Brandt as Queen Pompare (uncredited)
• Eddie Foster as Tommy (uncredited)
• Nelson Leigh
  Nelson Leigh
  Nelson Leigh was a prolific motion picture actor of the 1940s and 1950s.-Career:...
  
   as Minister (uncredited)
• Paul Newlan
  Paul Newlan
  Paul Emory Newlan was an American film and TV character actor from Plattsburgh, New York. He was best known for his role as Captain Grey on the NBC police series M Squad and for his roles in films including The Americanization of Emily and The Slender Thread.-Career:Newlan appeared in dozens of...
  
  as Captain (uncredited)