Who Is the Savage? (1913)
- Directed by
- Romaine Fielding
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A silent short film from 1913 about a white woman who takes a child from a Native American mother. The story is played for comedy but stirred criticism for its subject.
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What happens
Who Is the Savage? is a lost 1913 silent dramatic short directed, written by, and starring Romaine Fielding with Mary Ryan. Moving Picture World gave it a favorable writeup, calling it a comedic farce. The plot featured a white woman stealing the child of an "Indian" woman. This storyline caused some controversy with some critics. It was a Lubin film. Moving Picture World gave it a favorable write up, calling it a comedic farce. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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