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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

191329 minUnited States
Western

Synopsis

Two orphaned sisters arrive at a frontier settlement with their puppies. A dispute over the dogs leads to a killing and an attack on the community. As residents shelter in a cabin, a missing baby and a messenger sent for help create competing urgencies.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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28:53
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · D W GRIFFITH · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Historical context

Griffith builds suspense around a threatened settler household. The story casts Native Americans through hostile stereotypes, making its account of frontier violence an expression of the period's cinematic prejudices.

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