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The Squaw Man

191474 minUnited States
WesternRomanceAdventure
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
72:24
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel · Public domain

Synopsis

An English aristocrat leaves his country under suspicion of misusing a charitable fund and begins again in Wyoming. There he forms a family with Nat-U-Ritch, a Ute woman who has protected him from danger. News that could restore his former position arrives as a local investigation threatens the life they have built together.

Cast

DirectorsCecil B. DeMilleOscar C. Apfel

Inspirations

The film adapts Edwin Milton Royle's stage play, retaining its melodramatic conflict between English inheritance and an American frontier family. The original title contains a derogatory term for an Indigenous woman.

Behind the scenes

Cecil B. DeMille shared directing duties with Oscar Apfel on his first film assignment. The production was an early milestone in the development of feature filmmaking in Hollywood.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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  • Dustin Farnum — Film World Publishing Co Permission (Reusing this file) See below.; Who's Who in the Film World: edited by Fred C. Justice, Tom R. Smith; 1919 pg. 1873 · Public domain

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