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.

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some childre...

A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will l...
During the raid on an emigrant train the girl and her brother, the only survivors, are attacked by t...

In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After se...

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but t...

Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a n...

On a trip East, Silent Kerry falls for pretty Mary Stockdale. Later, by coincidence, she just happen...

A silent Western about a rough rider, that winds up in jail and the adventure begins.

Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a...

A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a notorious ...

Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert. After...

Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machin...

Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sh...

Deputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle rustler...

Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at...

From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the...

Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the ...

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement reg...

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and s...

Silent western comedy starring Charles Puffy