The Squaw Man

Cecil B. DeMille, never a man to refrain from beating a good thing into the ground, filmed this old stage play for the third time here. The film tells the story of Baxter, an English captain who assumes the guilt for his embezzling aristocrat cousin, Cavanagh--whose wife (Boardman) Baxter loves--and flees to the American West. He soon makes an enemy of rustler Bickford, from whose clutches he rescues Indian maiden Velez. He marries the Spanish-accented Indian woman and soon she bears him a child, Moore. Later, Velez kills Bickford as a sort of favor to her new husband. Boardman, Baxter's true love and wife of Cavanagh, shows up out West to tell Baxter that Cavanagh...