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The Half-Breed is a 1916 film directed by Allan Dwan. It stars Douglas Fairbanks as Lo Dorman (a pun, as it phonetically means "Sleeping Water" in French) a man competing for the love of the local preacher's daughter (Jewel Carmen) with the local sheriff (Sam De Grasse).
- a story by Bret Harte In The Carquinez Woods
- D. W. Griffith
- July 30, 1916
- Douglas Fairbanks
The Half-Breed: Directed by Allan Dwan. With Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson. An outcast named Lo Dorman encounters a young woman lost in the woods. He defends her from danger in the forest and from Sheriff Dunn.
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- Western
- Allan Dwan
- 1916-07-30
Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film The Half-Breed, released in 1916 by Triangle Motion Picture Company, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson, and Jewel Carmen, and directed by Allan Dwan.
It opens with the tragic end of an interracial romance—the suicide of a Native American woman who has been seduced and abandoned by a white man. She leaves behind a son, Lo, or Sleeping Water (Douglas Fairbanks), who is raised by a white naturalist. When his adoptive father dies, white miners force Lo from his home at gunpoint.
Welcomed at first into a California town, “Lo Dorman” (Douglas Fairbanks), as he’s known to Indian brethren, is separated from Nellie (Jewel Carmen) by her pastor father (Frank Brownlee) then encounters the crooked sheriff (Sam De Grasse), neither knowing of their kinship, in The Half-Breed, 1916.
- Allan Dwan
- Douglas Fairbanks
Synopsis. 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 ...
La pellicola The Half-Breed è uno 73 minuto western da 1916, diretto da Allan Dwan. Il cast principale è composto da Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Alma Rubens e Tom Wilson.
