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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1224

Ramona

191017 minUnited States

Synopsis

Ramona rejects the marriage expected by her foster family and chooses Alessandro, a Native American man. Their attempt to build a home is repeatedly threatened by settlers taking the land. The romance becomes a story of dispossession, prejudice and the loss of security.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 16:25
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

Mary Pickford

Henry B. Walthall

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Inspirations

Griffith adapts Helen Hunt Jackson's novel with Mary Pickford and Henry B. Walthall. California locations connect the fictional lovers to the landscape in which Jackson placed her critique of injustice toward Native Americans.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

Photograph credit

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Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain
Henry B. Walthall — Tower Magazines, Inc., photographer unknown · Public domain

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