''The Red Man's View'' (also cited ''The Redman's View'') is a 1909 American
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silent Western
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film directed by
D. W. Griffith and shot in New York state. Prints of the film exist in the film archives of the
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According to the ''New York Dramatic Mirror'', the film is about "the helpless Indian race as it has been forced to recede before the advancing white, and as such is full of poetic sentiment". In his 2003 publication ''The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century'', film historian Scott Simon observes that "the film's title works out to mean 'The Red Man's Point of View', and for all the film's difficulty in making drama from a long, passive march, there's nothing like ''The Red Man's View'' in Hollywood until John Ford's ''
Cheyenne Autumn
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'' more than fifty years later".
A remake starring
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Saginaw Grant
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Booboo Stewart
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Elaine Miles
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Michael Spears
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, and
Crystal Lightning was scheduled to be released in 2017.
Cast
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Owen Moore
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as Silver Eagle
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James Kirkwood as Silver Eagle's Father, the Tribal Spokesman
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Kate Bruce
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as Indian
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Charles Craig as Conqueror
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Frank Evans as Conqueror
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Edith Haldeman
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She appeared in Native American films such as ''A Mohawk's Way'' (1910), and '' Re ...
as Indian
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Ruth Hart
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She died in New York, New York, United States.
Selected filmography
*'' Nursing a Viper'' (1909
Events
January–Febru ...
as Indian
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Arthur V. Johnson as Conqueror
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Henry Lehrman
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as Conqueror
*
W. Chrystie Miller
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as Indian
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George Nichols as Conqueror
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Anthony O'Sullivan
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Director
* '' ...
as Conqueror
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Alfred Paget
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*
Lottie Pickford
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as Minnewanna
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Billy Quirk
Billy Quirk (born William Andrew Quirk; March 27, 1873April 20, 1926) was an American stage and silent-film actor. He performed in more than 180 films between 1909 and 1924. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he died in Los Angeles, California. G ...
as Conqueror
*
Mack Sennett
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as Conqueror
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Charles West as Conqueror
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Dorothy West as Indian
See also
*
List of American films of 1909
This is a list of American films released in 1909.
See also
* 1909 in the United States
References
External links
1909 filmsat the Internet Movie Database
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1909
Events
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1909 in film
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D. W. Griffith filmography
These are the films directed by the pioneering American filmmaker D. W. Griffith (1875–1948). According to IMDb, he directed 518 films between 1908 and 1931.
1908
* ''The Adventures of Dollie''
* '' The Fight for Freedom'' (director disputed ...
References
External links
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''The Red Man's View''on
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