This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.
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Jack Sankeydoty
- Black Wolf
- (as Sanka Dota)
Belo Cozad
- Big Bear - Comanche Chief
- (as Chief Cozad)
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- TriviaThe film was begun in 1919 and finished in 1920. For some unknown reason it was never released, and was thought to have been lost. However, in 2005 an original silver nitrate print turned up, and it was purchased by the Oklahoma Historical Society, which embarked on a painstaking restoration project. The film was finally restored and premiered in Oklahoma in 2012.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Kiowa Chief: Go in search of White Eagle and learn whether he has seen the game we have long been looking for. Our women and children can go hungry no longer.
Featured review
Esther LeBarre is ready for marriage. Her father, Hunting Horse thinks Jack Sankeydoty would be a good match, but she doesn't love him. She loves White Parker. Hunting Horse set a test for the two suitors, which Sankeydoky fails miserably, so Parker get the girl and Sankeydoky is exiled. So he takes up with the evil Comanche and plots his vengeance.
There's good photography here, showing off the Kiowa in group settings and with the appurtenances of their culture. However, when it comes to acting, no one seems to have much of an idea of how to get a performance out of the Native Americans who made up the cast. Definite props for using Native Americans in the cast instead of White actors, but good intentions don't trump inept acting nor standard plots, and the camerawork by Ray Ries is the dull set-ups that American films got into while European film makers were occupied by a little something called World War One.
There's good photography here, showing off the Kiowa in group settings and with the appurtenances of their culture. However, when it comes to acting, no one seems to have much of an idea of how to get a performance out of the Native Americans who made up the cast. Definite props for using Native Americans in the cast instead of White actors, but good intentions don't trump inept acting nor standard plots, and the camerawork by Ray Ries is the dull set-ups that American films got into while European film makers were occupied by a little something called World War One.
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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