Cast: Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Mrs. A.W. Filson, Haidee Fuller, Red Wing, Dick La Reno, Joseph Singleton, William Elmer. Screenplay: Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar Apfel, based on a play by Edwin Milton Royle. Cinematography: Alfred Gandolfi. Art direction: Wilfred Buckland. Film editing: Mamie Wagner.
Apart from its historical interest as the first feature to be filmed in Hollywood, The Squaw Man holds up well enough as drama for Cecil B. DeMille to have remade it twice, in 1918 (a version now lost) and again in 1931. Today it's mostly of archival interest for its rather naïve treatment of Native Americans, but also because its use of outdoor locations shows why Southern California, with its varied landscape and good weather, became the center of American filmmaking. It also helped establish the Western as a major movie genre.