Ramona (1910)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

17 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film based on a novel. It follows a love story between a young woman and a man set against the backdrop of racial injustice toward Native Americans.

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What happens

Ramona is a 1910 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. Through a love story, the early short explores racial injustice against Native Americans and stars Mary Pickford and Henry B. Walthall. A print survives in the Library of Congress film archive. The film was remade in 1928 (dir. Edwin Carewe) with Dolores del Río and in 1936 (dir. Henry King) with Loretta Young. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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