The Squaw Man

A British army officer, Captain James Wingate (Warner Baxter), is left disgraced when he takes the blame for his cousin Henry's (Paul Cavanagh) misappropriation of the regiment's charitable fund. He is also in love with Henry's wife, Diana (Eleanor Boardman), who loves him in return and knows he is innocent and her husband guilty. They both agree he must leave the country to save her marriage and their honour. He heads to the Wild West of the United States, taking over a ranch in Montana. A local bootlegger, Cash Hawkins, wants his land as a smuggling route from Mexico, and also tries to force a beautiful Indian squaw, Naturich (Lupe Velez), to his will. James rescues her, earning her gratitude and love; when Cash Hawkins openly comes in to kill him, and he does not resist because he is pining over a picture of Lady Diana and wants to die, Naturich shoots Cash dead. The sheriff and his friends are for Cash and against James, but cannot pin Cash's "murder" on James, and Naturich goes unsuspected. She follows James home and saves him from two of Cash's friends who shoot and wound him; in gratitude, he lets her stay with him. We later find that he marries her and they have a son, Hal (Dickie Moore (actor)). Years later, Henry, who is being unfaithful to Diana, is killed in a hunting accident, and confesses to the theft as he dies. Sir John Applegate, Diana's friend, finds out James's whereabouts and arrives at the ranch with her, on Hal's fifth birthday as he is glorying in the model railroad James's ranch hands have given him and being lukewarm about his mother's handmade wooden horse. James longs desperately to return to England, and is agonized by what might have been with Diana; however, he remains true to Naturich and introduces her as his wife to the surprised guests. Later, Sir John convinces James to let him take Hal back with him to England, where the boy will be educated in the finest schools and become worthy to inherit the earldom. Upon having her son taken