The_Red_Woman_(film)

<i>The Red Woman</i> (film)

The Red Woman (film)

1917 film

The Red Woman is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Harry R. Durant and starring Gail Kane, Mahlon Hamilton and June Elvidge.[1]

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Plot

The head character, Morton Dean, is a spoiled child of a rich landowner. His father wants him to take responsibility and attempts to send him to New Mexico to manage some of his mines. The son refuses, focusing on his upcoming marriage to the socialite Dora Wendell. He eventually discovers that she is only interested in him for his wealth, but do to his refusal to follow his father's wishes he is cut away from his inheritance. He travels to New Mexico where he meets, falls in love, and fathers a child with an Eastern educated native woman.[2]

Cast

References

  1. [1]
    Aleiss, p. 23.
  2. [2]
    "The Red Woman". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved July 20, 2023.

Bibliography

  • Angela Aleiss. Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.


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