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The Silent Enemy (1930)A documentary about the life of Indians in Northern Canada. Director:H.P. Carver |
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Title: The Silent Enemy (1930)
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Chief Yellow Robe | ... |
Chetoga, tribe leader
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Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance | ... |
Baluk, mighty hunter
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Chief Akawanush | ... |
Dagwan, medicine man
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Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud | ... |
Neewa, Chetoga's daughter
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Cheeka | ... |
Cheeka, Chetoga's son
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Food is getting scarce for the tribe, and the chief must choose between the advice of Baluk to go north to the caribou herds, or the conniving medicine man Dagwan to stay put. On the way north they endure great hardship, and the conflict between Baluk and Dagwan deepens. It doesn't help that both want to marry the chief's daughter. Written by Robert Tonsing <rob_tonsing@msn.com>
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EnglishRelease Date:
2 August 1930 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Silent Enemy: An Epic of the American Indian See more »Filming Locations:
Temagami Forest Reserve, Ontario, CanadaBox Office
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ITL 239,500,000 (Italy)Company Credits
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One of a number of fiction films of the 1920's and 1930's that attempt to show the life of primitive peoples before contact with European material culture. The best known example is Nanook of the North (1922).
Very well done, with much location shooting under trying circumstances for both the Ojibwe Indian cast and the crew. Interesting wild animal sequences, especially of the caribou.
The sound mostly is fine organ playing, with a short spoken introduction by Chief Yellow Robe (who played Chetoga, tribe leader).