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The Silent Enemy
(1930) Canadian
B&W : [?] Eight? reels / 2290 metres
Directed by H.P. Carver

Cast: Chief Yellow Robe [Chetoga, the tribe leader], Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance [Baluk, the mighty hunter], Chief Akawanush [Dagwan, the medicine man], Spotted Elk [Neewa, Chetoga’s daughter], Cheeka [Cheeka, Chetoga’s son]

Burden-Chanler Productions production; distributed by Paramount Publix Corporation. / Produced by W. Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler. Scenario by Richard Carver, from a screen story by W. Douglas Burden. Prologue by Chief Yellow Robe. Technical advisor, L.A. Bonn. Animal advisor, Alan Bachrach. Assistant director, Earl M. Welch. Cinematography by Marcel Le Picard + [Horace D. Ashton, Frank M. Broda, William Casel and Otto Durkoltz]. Intertitles by Julian Johnson. / Released 2 August 1930. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama-Documentary.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Canada: Ontario: Temagami Forest Reserve - Native Americans

Listing updated: 10 August 2009.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 223 : ClasIm-204 p. 3 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

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