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A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)

1910 · Silent film · 1 min · dir. D.W. Griffith

  • Western
  • Romance

Synopsis

A young Indian girl is adopted by a white couple who treat her almost as their daughter, educating her and showering on her every attention. She is happy and falls in love with the couple's nephew, but she finds the young man with his fiancée, a young lady of his own race. Back to her own people she goes, and her former lover attacks the boy in revenge. When the white boy's fiancée learns of his duplicity, she breaks her troth with him.

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Details

Director
D.W. Griffith
Studio
American Mutoscope & Biograph
Released
1910-04-10
Running time
1 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Silent Hall of Fame, Silent Films, Feature Films

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