Esther LeBarre is ready for marriage. Her father, Hunting Horse thinks Jack Sankeydoty would be a good match, but she doesn't love him. She loves White Parker. Hunting Horse set a test for the two suitors, which Sankeydoky fails miserably, so Parker get the girl and Sankeydoky is exiled. So he takes up with the evil Comanche and plots his vengeance.
There's good photography here, showing off the Kiowa in group settings and with the appurtenances of their culture. However, when it comes to acting, no one seems to have much of an idea of how to get a performance out of the Native Americans who made up the cast. Definite props for using Native Americans in the cast instead of White actors, but good intentions don't trump inept acting nor standard plots, and the camerawork by Ray Ries is the dull set-ups that American films got into while European film makers were occupied by a little something called World War One.
There's good photography here, showing off the Kiowa in group settings and with the appurtenances of their culture. However, when it comes to acting, no one seems to have much of an idea of how to get a performance out of the Native Americans who made up the cast. Definite props for using Native Americans in the cast instead of White actors, but good intentions don't trump inept acting nor standard plots, and the camerawork by Ray Ries is the dull set-ups that American films got into while European film makers were occupied by a little something called World War One.