Despite the IMDb credit, has nothing to do with Jack London's novel. It's a D.W. Griffith movie about how Amerindian Charles Inslee has just graduated from college with honors, and a football hero to boot. When he pays court to Florence Lawrence, however, she rejects him and leaves. He tears off his civilized clothes, dons his Comanche get-up, gets drunk with his fellow braves and kidnaps Miss Lawrence.
The copy I looked at on Youtube was on old paper print copy and was, as you might expect, not very easy to watch. It's only in the past twenty years that very watchable prints have been struck. However, even though the acting in this one is still of the waving-the-hands-about variety, it's well shot for the era, in about a dozen scenes, most of them outdoor. Although Griffith had not abandoned the proscenium arch entirely for his movies, given a story that called for a subject that could be set outside, he and his cameraman (here Arthur Marvin) felt no need for it.
The copy I looked at on Youtube was on old paper print copy and was, as you might expect, not very easy to watch. It's only in the past twenty years that very watchable prints have been struck. However, even though the acting in this one is still of the waving-the-hands-about variety, it's well shot for the era, in about a dozen scenes, most of them outdoor. Although Griffith had not abandoned the proscenium arch entirely for his movies, given a story that called for a subject that could be set outside, he and his cameraman (here Arthur Marvin) felt no need for it.