by Hal Erickson
synopsis
MGM's silent programmers were often more elaborate than the "A" product from most other studios, and The Barrier was no exception. Norman Kerry plays a Virginian blueblood who comes to the North Woods. Here he falls in love with Marceline Day, the daughter of Henry B. Walthall. Only she's not really Walthall's daughter, but instead the offspring of evil Lionel Barrymore. The Rex Beach story upon which The Barrier was based ended on a sorrowful note; not so this 1926 film version, which in addition to sending the audience home happy also featured a whale of an ice-floe finale.
characteristics
- Rainstorm
- Tragic-love
- Storm
- Truth
- Wife
- Woods [place]
- Wives
- Sea
- Ruthlessness
- Freeze
- Daughter
- Freezing
- Frozen
- Love
- Conflict
