The Barrier is a 1926 American silent adventure film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by George Hill.

[1] The film stars Lionel Barrymore and Marceline Day and is based on the 1908 wilderness novel of the same name by Rex Beach.

[3][4] As described in a film magazine review,[5] during the Alaskan gold rush days, a baby girl is rescued from Stark Bennett, a brutal father, by kindly seaman Gale Gaylord, when her mother, a full-blooded Indian, dies aboard ship.

Necia is brought up unaware of her half-Indian parentage until she is about to wed Meade Burrell, an American Army officer.

After she does so, she is saved from her worthless parent by her lover, whose loyalty finally induces her to marry him.