Comata, the Sioux
About Comata, the Sioux
Comata loves Clear Eyes, the chief's daughter, but she leaves with the cowboy Bud Watkins. Two years and a child later, Bud courts Nellie Howe, who thinks he is single. Comata shows Nellie the child and then kills Bud. He meets Clear Eyes on a mountain and they walk home with the child.
Cast & crew
More about Comata, the Sioux
D. W. Griffith directed the one-reel Biograph short, released September 9, 1909, at 10 minutes. Wikipedia credits the script to Stanner E. V. Taylor and E. S. Hirsch. Wikidata lists Taylor only. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. James Kirkwood is Comata, Marion Leonard is Clear Eyes, Arthur V. Johnson is Bud Watkins, Linda Arvidson is Nellie Howe, and Verner Clarges is the father and Indian chief. The catalog synopsis names the chief Thunder Cloud. Biograph released it.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer shot the one-reel Biograph Western.
Notes
- The catalog synopsis has Comata watching Bud for two years before he tells Clear Eyes the truth. Wikipedia's plot adds the killing and the walk down the mountain.
- Florence La Badie is on the catalog and Wikidata cast lists. The Wikipedia role list does not give her a part.
- Wikidata also classifies the short as a Western.
Scenes
- Comata shows Nellie the child as proof Bud is not single.
- Comata kills Bud.
- Comata and Clear Eyes meet on the mountain with the child.
