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.
Villain
Crime, Drama, Thriller
6.3
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Drama, History
8.0
Late Spring
Drama
8.0
Spring
Comedy
7.0
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
7.2
Raising Arizona
Comedy, Crime
7.1
North by Northwest
Thriller, Adventure
8.0
Torn Curtain
Thriller
6.6
Jaws
Horror, Thriller, Adventure
7.7
Four Rooms
Comedy, Crime
5.9
Mr. Klein
Mystery, Drama, History, Thriller
7.2
M
Drama, Thriller, Crime
8.1
New York Stories
Comedy, Drama
6.2
To Have and Have Not
Adventure, Romance, War
7.5
Farewell My Concubine
Drama
7.9
The Sprinkler Sprinkled
Comedy
6.8
The Cowboys
Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
7.1
Alphaville
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
6.9
Coffee and Cigarettes
Comedy, Drama
6.9
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Documentary
7.3
Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Western, Drama
5.0
The Good Bad-Man
Western
6.3
The Great Train Robbery
Western, Crime, Action, Adventure
7.0
An Eastern Westerner
Comedy, Western
6.9
Riders of the Purple Cows
Western, Comedy
0.0
The Mark of Zorro
Western, Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance
7.2
The Wind
Drama, Western, Romance, Thriller
7.3
The Land Beyond the Law
Western
0.0
Gun Gospel
Western
0.0
The Paleface
Western, Comedy
6.1
White Gold
Drama, Western
5.9
Broken Ways
Western
0.0
Out West
Comedy, Western
6.0
The Frozen North
Comedy, Western
6.2
Ride in the Whirlwind
Western, Thriller, Drama
6.2
The Pilgrim
Comedy, Western
6.8
The Mysterious Rider
Western
0.0
Durand of the Bad Lands
Western
0.0
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Western
0.0
Seminole
Adventure, Western
5.4