The Witch of the Everglades
About The Witch of the Everglades
After his brother is murdered, Seminole war chief White Cloud (Charles Clary) makes war on white settlers. Seth Thomas is killed, his wife Dora (Kathlyn Williams) is left for dead, and their daughter is carried off by White Cloud's wife. Dora goes mad and for fifteen years tries to kill every Seminole she meets, and they call her the Witch of the Everglades. Raised by White Cloud, the girl Nellie (Columbia Eneutseak) saves a captured Lieutenant Hardy when she is seventeen. A bullet brings Dora's memory back, she finds her daughter, and White Cloud is last seen looking toward the land he has lost.
Cast & crew
More about The Witch of the Everglades
Otis Turner wrote and directed for William N. Selig's Selig Polyscope company, and General Film Company released it on April 27, 1911. It was shot in Florida, and IMDb times it at 15 minutes. Silent Era lists the U.S. rights as public domain and the survival status as unknown.
Themes
Background
The Moving Picture World synopsis sets the war at the beginning of the last century, after the unprovoked murder of White Cloud's brother.
Reviews
A Moving Picture World review said the Florida scenery was interesting and the characterization left little to be desired, and that the memory-loss idea was not new.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
Silent Era lists the survival status as unknown and the U.S. rights as public domain.
Notes
- Kathlyn Williams is Dora. Charles Clary is White Cloud. Columbia Eneutseak is the daughter.
- The Moving Picture World synopsis, quoted by Silent Era, carries the plot through Nellie's rescue of Lieutenant Hardy and White Cloud looking off at the land he has lost.
- A Moving Picture World review says a bullet to the head restores Dora's memory so she can find her daughter.
- The same review praised the Florida scenery.
Scenes
- Dora finds her husband dead and her baby gone, and is left for dead.
- At seventeen, Nellie saves Lieutenant Hardy from the Seminoles.
- White Cloud stands looking toward the country he has lost.
