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The Red Man and the Child (1908)

The Red Man and the Child poster
Original title
The Redman and the Child
Directed by
D. W. Griffith
Genre
short film, Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
14 min
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Native American man meets a young boy in the wilderness. They become companions and face danger together.

old-fashionedmelodramaticgentlesomberstagedquietearly-cinema

What happens

The Red Man and the Child is a 1908 American black-and-white short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. It stars Charles Inslee and six-year old John Tansey. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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