The Half-Breed

⭐ 6.6/10 📅 1916 ⏱️ 72 min 🎭 Drama, Western

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Allan Dwan

✍️ Writers

Anita Loos, Bret Harte

🎥 Producers

D.W. Griffith

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Fine Arts Film Company

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Drama Western

📖 Overview

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity – his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.