The Betrayer (1921)

The Betrayer is a 1921 Australian-New Zealand film from director Beaumont Smith about an inter-racial romance between a white Australian and a part-Māori girl.

It is considered a lost film.

Synopsis

Australian Stephen Manners (Cyril Mackay) travels to New Zealand and falls in love with a Māori girl. He goes home and she dies giving birth to their daughter, Iwa. Iwa is raised by her grandfather Hauraki (Mita), who explains to Manners what happens when he returns to New Zealand twenty years later. Manners decides to take Iwa (now played by Stella Southern) back to Sydney, Australia, but doesn't tell her that he is her father.

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