sentences:  The film "Distant Drums" (1951), which was one of the earliest Florida Westerns made, even changed his name to Oscala and portrayed him as a malevolent savage, filled with a constant blood lust who fed living prisoners to alligators.One of the advantages of these types of films, however, was that the producers often used the Florida Everglades as a backdrop.Now a contemporary audience has the benefit of glimpsing this wilderness in its mid 20th century form.