The Heart of an Indian Maid

Name: The Heart of an Indian Maid
Genre: Short, Western
Released: 1911-05-24
Duration: 12 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Pearl White

19111911
12m

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A party of trappers is attacked by Indians and all escape but one, who is badly wounded. The Indians, however, start in pursuit of the fleeing trappers and the wounded man is found by Winona... Read allA party of trappers is attacked by Indians and all escape but one, who is badly wounded. The Indians, however, start in pursuit of the fleeing trappers and the wounded man is found by Winonah and taken to camp, where she nurses him back to health, saving his life by pleading with... Read allA party of trappers is attacked by Indians and all escape but one, who is badly wounded. The Indians, however, start in pursuit of the fleeing trappers and the wounded man is found by Winonah and taken to camp, where she nurses him back to health, saving his life by pleading with the chief. Upon his recovery he becomes a blood brother of the tribe by the intermingling... Read all

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5.3/10

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2/10

The Brains of a Dope

A married trapper wins the heart of an Indian maid and is married to her. After the wedding night he returns to his other wife and family. The Indian discovers this bigamy and determines to kill him, but seeing the love he has for his daughter, she jumps off a cliff instead, hoping to meet again in the "Happy Hunting Ground."

That silly plot sums up the basic problem of this movie, which survives in an excellent tinted print. The exteriors, shot in Fort Lee New Jersey, are fine. The interiors are clearly flats. Besides the problems with the plot, the acting, while clearly Griffith-influenced -- by this stage, what American film was not? -- is broad to just shy of comedy; and the direction has a fairly long sequence in which the trapper comes home and cuddles his his daughter and neither of them mention the Indian in the room, even though the daughter fully knows she is there.

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