The Half-Breed

In this poorly contrived western the Apaches never learn why Reed Hadley and his henchmen want them off the San Remo reservation. So I won't say either.

Robert Young and Jack Beutel are respectively a jaded and disillusioned former Confederate officer now turned gambler and a half white Apache warrior. Between he two of them they have their hands filled trying to stop an Indian war that saloon owner Reed Hadley wants to start.

Coming between them is entertainer Janis Carter whom Hadley has a Snidely Whiplash interest in

The sad thing about The Half Breed is that it had potential for a serious film on race relations. Poor Jack Beutel who was Billy the Kid in Howard Hughes's Thr Outlaw. Unlike Jane Russell he never got a career on track after that legendary fiasco.

This film didn't help.