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.
Allan Dwan
Director
Anita Loos
Writer
Douglas Fairbanks
Lo Dorman
Alma Rubens
Teresa
Sam De Grasse
Sheriff Dunn
Tom Wilson
Curson
Frank Brownlee
Winslow Wynn
Jewel Carmen
Nellie
George Beranger
Jack Brace
Elmo Lincoln
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