In the Land of the Head Hunters

Name: In the Land of the Head Hunters
Rating: 5.8

Not Rated Drama

Starring: Stanley Hunt, Sarah Constance Smith Hunt, Mrs. George Walkus, Paddy 'Malid, Balutsa

Writer: Edward S. Curtis

Release Date:
December 7, 1914

Ratings:
5.8 / 10

Director:
Edward S. Curtis

Companies:
Seattle Film Co.

Overview

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, written and directed by Edward S. Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwaka'wakw natives. It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

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