Screening

About The Daughter of Dawn

Year Released:

1920

Genres:

Action/Adventure, Drama

Metadata:

Directed by Norbert A. Myles

The Daughter of Dawn is a 1920 silent film shot in the Wichita Mountains of Southwest Oklahoma. The story, played by an all-Indian cast of 300 Kiowas and Comanches, includes a four-way love story, buffalo hunts, a battle scene, dances, deceit, hand-to-hand combat, love scenes, and a happy ending. The lead actor is White Parker, the son of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker. Special thanks to the Oklahoma Historical Society. (Digital screening of the work-in-progress restoration.)

Bill Moore from the Oklahoma Historical Society is scheduled to be present to discuss the restoration of this historically important film.