The Barrier (1917 film)

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Directed by Edgar Lewis
Written byAdrian Gil-Spear
Based onThe Barrier
by Rex Beach
Produced byRex Beach
Benjamin P. Hampton
Starring Mabel Julienne Scott
Cinematography Edward Earle (not the actor Edward Earle)
Edited byPaul F. Maschke
Music byFrederick O. Hanks
Sol Levy
Distributed byState Rights
Release date
  • February 1917 (1917-02)
Running time
1 hr. 40 mins.; 10 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Barrier is a lost [1] 1917 American silent northwoods drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and starring Mabel Julienne Scott. It is based on the 1908 Rex Beach novel The Barrier. [2] [3]

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The Beach novel was filmed again by MGM in 1926 as The Barrier starring Lionel Barrymore.

Plot summary

A barrier stands between Lt. Meade Burrell and Necia, the woman he loves. That barrier is the fact that she's a "half-breed" — half-Indian and half-white, with an Indian mother and John Gale, a white trader, for a father. Although he has proposed marriage to Necia, she releases him from it when she realizes the damage that marrying a half-breed would do to him personally and professionally. One day, a man arrives in town with information that could solve everyone's problems.

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