The Red Woman is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Harry R. Durant and starring Gail Kane, Mahlon Hamilton and June Elvidge.

[1] The head character, Morton Dean, is a spoiled child of a rich landowner.

The son refuses, focusing on his upcoming marriage to the socialite Dora Wendell.

He eventually discovers that she is only interested in him for his wealth, but do to his refusal to follow his father's wishes he is cut away from his inheritance.

He travels to New Mexico where he meets, falls in love, and fathers a child with an Eastern educated native woman.