The Half-Breed

May. 03,1952      NR
Rating:
5.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.

Robert Young as  Dan Craig
Janis Carter as  Helen Dowling
Jack Buetel as  Charlie Wolf
Barton MacLane as  Marshal Cassidy
Reed Hadley as  Frank Crawford
Porter Hall as  Kraemer
Connie Gilchrist as  Ma Higgins
Sammy White as  Willy Wayne
Damian O'Flynn as  Capt. Jackson
Frank Wilcox as  Sands

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Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty
1952/05/03

Memorable, crazy movie

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Console
1952/05/04

best movie i've ever seen.

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Usamah Harvey
1952/05/05

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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Juana
1952/05/06

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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dbdumonteil
1952/05/07

Jack Buetel's career never really took off after the "scandalous" "gay" western "the outlaw" ,where he was outstripped by Jane Russel,who became a true star .When he returned ,he was given uninteresting parts:for instance,in "best of the badmen" ,probably the best of the lot,he had to play the youngster opposite seasoned actors such as Robert Ryan and Claire Trevor and he was not able to shine,being already too old for this kind of role.I was expecting more of "the half-breed" .What a disappointment!Whereas the subject could have been interesting(the man torn between the White and the Indians),the screenwriters made of mess of it ,with a desultory script,mixing gambling,songs in the saloon which are mostly filler, love rivalry,male friendship,and Charley's sister who appears just to be raped(?) and killed .Like this? Try this....."The savage" (Marshall,1952,star. Charlton Heston)

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lorenellroy
1952/05/08

There is a passage in the Shakespeare play " A Midsummer Night's Dream "that refers to the imaginary play of Pyramus and Thisby as being both " brief and tedious" .It would serve well as a description of this quite awful piece of garbage from the early 50's as well . The eponymous hero is Charley Wolf who is part white and part Apache and who seeks to maintain the existing uneasy peace between the two races in San Remo .He is helped by a former Confederate officer ,turned gambler (Robert Young ).The local Indian agent is a devious and corrupt individual who is seeking to get the Apaches evicted from their reservation in order to get at the gold which lies hidden there .The relationship between Wolf and his ally is shattered by their competing for the affections of the same girl -a saloon singer . The script is dire and the acting woeful ;in particular the slow and over emphatic delivery of the white actors playing Native Americans is tedious .Young -a capable enough player in other movies -looks out of sorts in the Western setting. Add muddy colour and a clichéd script and the result is racist tedium and unrelenting dullness .

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Michael O'Keefe
1952/05/09

Indians, gold-seekers and dance hall girls liven this hackneyed saga of a selfish politician trying to start an uprising in order to get to the gold on Apache land. Very good scenery and strong cast; but the story is too predictable. The players include: Robert Young, Janis Carter, Jack Buetel and Reed Hadley.

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boblipton
1952/05/10

Poorly acted drama about Robert Young -- doing a badly acted William Powell impression -- coming between Janis Carter, doing a bad Lucille Ball imitation and Reed Hadley doing a surprisingly awful Charlton Heston imitation. Beautiful location shots don't do anything towards rescuing this picture. Not even awful enough to be interesting.

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