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Plot

Sheryl Lee stars in this fact-based story of a colonial woman taken prisoner by a tribe of Shawnee Indians during the French and Indian War. After being abducted to the tribe's settlement in the wilds of Virginia, Mary Ingles (Lee) befriends a Dutch woman who is also being held captive, and the two manage to escape and work their way back home through the dangerous Virginia wilderness. Based upon the novel by James Alexander Thorn.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Action
Run Time:
93min.
DVD Release Date:
03/01/2005
Director(s):
Martin Davidson
Starring:
Sheryl Lee , Ellen Burstyn , Tim Guinee , Eric Schweig
Themes:
Survival in the Wilderness,White People Among Indians,Kidnapping
Tone:
Tense
Keywords:
Indian (Native-American)-tribe,captive,colonialism,escape,settler,wilderness
Language:
English