The Yaqui Cur
About The Yaqui Cur
A prospector and a preacher teach Strongheart, a Yaqui youth played by Robert Harron, to keep the peace. When another party attacks, Strongheart will not fight. The warriors, his chief among them, throw him out as a coward. His mother is Kate Bruce. His friend is Ocallo (Walter Miller). The line he was given, "Big love man lay down life for friend," is the one he follows when he dies for someone else.
Cast & crew
More about The Yaqui Cur
D. W. Griffith directed Stanner E. V. Taylor's scenario. G. W. Bitzer photographed the two-reeler in California. General Film Company released it on 17 May 1913. Lionel Barrymore plays an easterner. Frank Opperman is the preacher. Charles Hill Mailes is both the Yaqui chief and a goldseeker. Victoria Forde plays the chief's daughter.
Themes
Making
Biograph staged the circling horsemen and the camp in California, with Harron, then a regular juvenile, as Strongheart.
Look
G. W. Bitzer shot the California exteriors, including the attack of riders around the camp.
Preservation
A print exists. It has been issued on VHS and DVD.
Notes
- It is one of seven multi-reel films Griffith directed in 1913.
- Jennie Lee plays a Yaqui woman. William J. Butler is in the tribe and among the goldseekers.
- The picture is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Strongheart stays out of the fight while riders circle the camp.
- The warriors cast him out.
- He dies in place of a friend.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheYaquiCurForYT)
Quotes
Big love man lay down life for friend
