The Broken Doll
Overview
An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local white settlers — a couple and their young daughter — befriend the child and give her a doll, her first and only toy. Meanwhile, another tribesman is wantonly killed by a settler. Enraged, the Indians plan revenge and organize a war-party to attack the town. The Indians also take from the child the doll she was given and smash it. The child mourns her broken doll, and buries it with traditional tribal rites. Alarmed that her new friends will be harmed when the town is attacked, the child rushes ahead of the war-party to give warning of the imminent attack. In the raid the child is struck by a bullet, and makes her painful way to her doll’s burial site. Alone, she dies.
Release date
17/10/1910
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Original Soundtrack
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Thais
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Black Butterflies
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
The Truth About Husbands
The Man He Might Have Been
Pillars of Society
A Letter to Uncle Sam
The Wonderful Thing
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Peggy Leads the Way
Reno
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I Believed in You
The Mystery of the Empty Room
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