The Half-Breed "4 for 44"

The Half-Breed "4 for 44"The Western became a staple of filmmaking as far back as 1903's The Great Train Robbery, but it took some 50 years for the industry at large to provide films sympathetic to Native Americans via works such as Broken Arrow, Devil's Doorway and this Technicolor tale of The Half Breed. Robert Young portrays fair minded Dan Craig, whose arrival in Arizona Territory's San Remo puts him at odds with conspirators eager to ignite an Apache uprising and thereby

and Charles McGraw - is a noir fan's dark dream

Garbo is pure and sensual

matches her cool elegance with Garfield's electric intensity in this highly regarded psychological thriller

Soon the desperate Phillips loses his freedom as well when he robs a pawnshop and lands in the slammer

"It eats meat

to play his fiancee

an athlete drawn to the excitement of a demonstration

The dashing stylist (vaudeville star Frank Fay) is sure she's nuts

Bill scoffs - until a handsome air raid warden (James Craig) shows about just before midnight on day 14

the movie's locale was changed to Las Vegas when RKO studio chief Howard Hughes decided to publicize the city in which he'd recently taken a financial interest

Together they develop a tender

Joseph McConnell Jr