The Yaqui Cur

1913 film

May 17, 1913 (1913-05-17) (U.S.)

Running time

33 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Yaqui Cur is a 1913 American silent Western black and white film directed by D. W. Griffith, written by Stanner E.V. Taylor and starring Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, Walter Miller, Charles Hill Mailes and Victoria Forde.^[1]^[2] Griffith directed seven films with more than one reel, including The Yaqui Cur and The Little Tease (1913).^[3]

This film is one of the most ambiguous spatial moments in Griffith's work because the gesture is so forcefully directed outward,^[4] and it is considered one of Griffith's most bizarre films.^[5] There is a romance between a Native American woman and a white man.^[6]

Cast

Robert Harron as Strongheart, a Yaqui Youth
Kate Bruce as Strongheart's Mother
Walter Miller as Ocallo, Strongheart's Friend
Lionel Barrymore as The Easterner
Frank Opperman as The Preacher
Charles Hill Mailes as The Yaqui Chief / Goldseeker
Victoria Forde as The Yaqui Chief's Daughter
Jennie Lee as Yaqui Woman
William J. Butler as In Tribe / Goldseeker
Christy Cabanne as Undetermined Minor Role
Frank Evans as Goldseeker
Charles Gorman as In Tribe
Harry Hyde as Goldseeker
J. Jiquel Lanoe as In Tribe
Audrey Littlefield as Yaqui Child
Joseph McDermott as Goldseeker
Alfred Paget as In Tribe
Baby Lillian Wade as Yaqui Child

References

^ Langman, Larry (1992). A Guide to Silent Westerns. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 525. ISBN 9780313278587.
^ Agrasánchez, Jr., Rogelio (May 14, 2010). Guillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer. McFarland Publishing. p. 52. ISBN 9780786456482.
^ Stokes, Melvyn (January 15, 2008). D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford University Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780199887514.
^ Jesionowski, Joyce E. (November 6, 1989). Thinking in Pictures: Dramatic Structure in D. W. Griffith's Biograph Films. University of California Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780520067929.
^ Bowser, Eileen (2003). Usai, Paolo Cherchi (ed.). Films produced in 1913. BFI Publ. p. 79. ISBN 9780851709918.
^ Hilger, Michael (October 16, 2015). Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 393. ISBN 9781442240025.