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The Half-breed / production, Fine Arts Film Company ; directed by Allan Dwan ; production supervisor, D.W. Griffith ; scenario and titles, Anita Loos.
LIBRA DVD 035 PN1997 .H3643 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Motion picture adaptation of (work): Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, In the Carquinez Woods., author.
- Series:
- Kino classics.
- Kino classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harte, Bret, 1836-1902--Film adaptations.
- Harte, Bret.
- Multiracial people--West (U.S.)--Drama.
- Multiracial people.
- Outlaws--West (U.S.)--Drama.
- Outlaws.
- Romance-language drama.
- Genre:
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Western films.
- Romance films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Half breed
- Title on poster for Triangle Plays release: Halfbreed
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kino Lorber, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English intertitles and added musical score.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- digital optical stereo
- NTSC
- video file all regions
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Lo Dorman has been ostracized from society because of his mixed ethnicity; his white father abandoned his Native American mother. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie, he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn, who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa, who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
- Participant:
- (The half-breed) Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, Sam De Grasse, Alma Rubens.
- (The good bad man) Sam de Grasse, Fred Burns, Pomeroy Cannon, Mary Alden , George Beranger, Bessie Love.
- Credits:
- (The half-breed) Cinematography, Victor Fleming.
- (Good bad man):Cinematography, Victor Fleming; story by Douglas Fairbanks; direction by Allan Dwan; supervised by D. W. Griffith.
- Notes:
- Special features: The good bad man (1916 ; 50 min.); Amazing tales from the archives : restoring the Half-breed (1916); audio commentaries for the Half-breed and the Good Bad Man by Tracey Goessel and Robert Byrne; music for the Half-breed and the Good Bad Man composed and performed by Donald Sosin; photo gallery.
- Originally released in 1916.
- The half-breed is based on In the Carquinez Woods / by Bret Harte.
- This film has been restored in 2013 from surviving elements from a number of fragmentary elements of different releases and re-releases.
- Home use only.
- OCLC:
- 1037744462
- Publisher Number:
- 0738329231309 $19.95
- K23130 Kino Lorber
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