The Yaqui Cur

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The Yaqui Cur
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Written by Stanner E.V. Taylor
Produced by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Starring Robert Harron
Kate Bruce
Walter Miller
Cinematography G. W. Bitzer
Distributed by General Film Company
Silent Hall of Fame Enterprises
Release date
  • May 17, 1913 (1913-05-17)(U.S.)
Running time
33 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
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]

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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]

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References

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  2. Agrasánchez, Jr., Rogelio (May 14, 2010). Guillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer. McFarland Publishing. p. 52. ISBN   9780786456482.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Bowser, Eileen (2003). Usai, Paolo Cherchi (ed.). Films produced in 1913. BFI Publ. p. 79. ISBN   9780851709918.
  6. Hilger, Michael (October 16, 2015). Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 393. ISBN   9781442240025.