The Red Man's View (also cited The Redman's View) is a 1909 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and shot in New York state. Prints of the film exist in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress. According to the New York Dramatic Mirror, the film is about "the helpless Indian race as it has been forced to recede before the advancing white, and as such is full of poetic sentiment". In his 2003 publication The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century, film historian Scott Simon observes that "the film's title works out to mean 'The Red Man's Point of View', and for all the film's difficulty in making drama from a long, passive march, there's nothing like The Red Man's View in Hollywood until John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn more than fifty years later".

A remake starring Daniel Baldwin, Saginaw Grant, Booboo Stewart, Elaine Miles, Michael Spears, and Crystal Lightning was scheduled to be released in 2017.

The Red Man's View

Cast

Owen Moore as Silver Eagle

James Kirkwood as Silver Eagle's Father, the Tribal Spokesman

Kate Bruce as Indian

Charles Craig as Conqueror

Frank Evans as Conqueror

Edith Haldeman as Indian

Ruth Hart as Indian

Arthur V. Johnson as Conqueror

Henry Lehrman as Conqueror

W. Chrystie Miller as Indian

George Nichols as Conqueror

Anthony O'Sullivan as Conqueror

Alfred Paget

Lottie Pickford as Minnewanna

Billy Quirk as Conqueror

Mack Sennett as Conqueror

Charles West as Conqueror

Dorothy West as Indian

See also

List of American films of 1909

1909 in film

D. W. Griffith filmography

References

External links

The Red Man's View on YouTube

1909 films

1909 Western (genre) films

1909 short films

American silent short films

American black-and-white films

Articles containing video clips

Films directed by D. W. Griffith

Films about Native Americans

Films with screenplays by Frank E. Woods

Silent American Western (genre) films

1900s American films

The Red Man's View