| The Barrier | |
| Director: | Edgar Lewis |
| Producer: | Rex Beach Benjamin P. Hampton |
| Starring: | Mabel Julienne Scott |
| Cinematography: | Edward Earle (not the actor Edward Earle) |
| Editing: | Paul F. Maschke |
| Music: | Frederick O. Hanks Sol Levy |
| Distributor: | State Rights |
| Runtime: | 1 hr. 40 mins.; 10 reels |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (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]
The Beach novel was filmed again by MGM in 1926 as The Barrier starring Lionel Barrymore.
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.