The Barrier is a lost[1] 1917 American silent northwoods drama film directed by Edgar Lewis and starring Mabel Julienne Scott.

[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.