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The Half-Breed

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The Half-Breed	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Half-Breed is a 1916 feature film directed by Allan Dwan, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks.Fairbanks is Lo Dorman, illegitimate child of a Native American mother and a white father that abandoned her. Lo is raised to adulthood in the Sierra Nevada mountains by an old mountain man. Eventually the mountain man passes away, leaving Lo alone, belonging to neither the white nor the Native American world. Lo wanders into the town of Excelsior and attends a church meeting, where Nellie Wynn, the preacher's daughter, takes a fancy to him. Sheriff Dunn of Excelsior is also attracted to Nellie—and he turns out to be Lo's long-lost father. Further complications ensue with the arrival of Dick Curson, the sleay Snake Oil Salesman, and his attractive assistant Teresa.A pretty remarkable example of Fair for Its Day filmmaking in 1916. The film presents a startlingly enlightened view of racism and white supremacy, such as when a title card lampoons the "Superior" white man and then cuts to a shot of dirty old drunken hobo, or when Lo is forced off his deceased adoptive father's land at gunpoint because he's a half-breed. But the hero is still being played by a white actor in Brownface, and the local tribe is still portrayed as a bunch of drunks who set fire to the forest for no apparent reason.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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The Half-Breed / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Some of the local natives set fire to the forest because...they were bored? This sets up the climax in which Lo rescues Teresa from the fire but Sheriff Dunn dies.
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The Half-Breed / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: The very white Douglas Fairbanks playing a half-breed Native American. And the other Native Americans in the movie aren't very convincing either.
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The Half-Breed / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Sheriff Dunn, laid up in the hospital after being stabbed by Teresa, asks if Nellie has tried to see him. A visitor answers "Yes, I can hear her breaking down the door to get to you." The film then cuts to Nellie going off to visit Lo.
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The Half-Breed / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: Nellie is pretty clearly drawn to Lo by pure sexual attraction. When it's made clear to her that she could damage her social standing by dating a half-breed, she cuts Lo loose without a second thought.
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