A Mohawk's Way
| A Mohawk's Way | |
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| Directed by | D.W. Griffith |
| Written by | Stanner E.V. Taylor |
| Based on | Novel by James Fenimore Cooper |
| Cinematography | G.W. Bitzer |
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Running time | 17 min |
A Mohawk's Way, also known as The Mohawk's Treasure, is a 1910 short silent black and white drama film directed by D.W. Griffith, written by Stanner E.V. Taylor and based on James Fenimore Cooper novel, and photography by G.W. Bitzer.[1] It stars Dorothy Davenport and Jeanie Macpherson.[2]
The film portrays American cultural precepts about blood-thirsty savage American Indians,[3][4][5] and it assails the white man's cruelty against them.[6]
Cast
- George Nichols as Doctor Van Brum
- Claire McDowell as Indian Mother
- Edith Haldeman as Indian Child
- Francis J. Grandon as Indian Medicine Man
- Charles Arling
- William J. Butler as Servant
- Dorothy Davenport as Indian
- Adele DeGarde
- Edward Dillon as Friend
- John T. Dillon as Trapper
- Frank Evans as Trapper
- Guy Hedlund as Indian
- Henry Lehrman as Patient
- Jeanie Macpherson as Indian
- Charles Hill Mailes as Indian
- Anthony O'Sullivan as Trapper
- Alfred Paget as Indian
- Gertrude Robinson as Indian
- W.C. Robinson as Indian
- Mack Sennett
References
- ^ Österberg, Bertil O. (15 April 2009). Colonial America on Film and Television: A Filmography. McFarland Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 9780786442423.
- ^ Lowe, Denise (27 January 2014). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. Routledge. p. 1939. ISBN 9781317718970.
- ^ Stokes, Melvyn (15 January 2008). D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford University Press. p. 351. ISBN 9780199887514.
- ^ Usai, Paolo Cherchi; Bowser, Eileen (26 November 2000). The Griffith Project: Films produced in 1910. British Film Institute. p. 170. ISBN 9780851708058.
- ^ Bernardi, Daniel; Green, Michael (7 July 2017). Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation. ABC-CLIO. p. 384. ISBN 9780313398407.
- ^ Drew, William M. (1986). D.W. Griffith's Intolerance: Its Genesis and Its Vision. McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub. p. 7. ISBN 9780899501710.
