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Melissa of the Hills (1917)
Directed by James Kirkwood
Drama · 50m
Melissa Stark, a young girl in the Tennessee mountains tries to unite feuding families (Allisons & Watts) and help her preacher father, Jethro, while navigating romance with lawyer Tom Williams and a mistaken identity crisis that leads to her father's tragic death, after which the families reconcile. The story involves a newspaper ad for a dress, a mistaken identification of Jethro as a murder fugitive by a deputy sheriff, and a violent confrontation that ends with Jethro's innocence proven but his life lost.
Cast
Mary Miles Minter
Melissa Stark
Spottiswoode Aitken
Jethro Stark
Allan Forrest
Tom Williams
George Periolat
Cyrus Kimball
John Gough
Larry Watts
Anne Schaefer
Sally Smith
P
Perry Banks
Dr. Brand
G
Gertrude Le Brandt
Mrs. Sanders
H
Harry Clark
Cutler Sanders
F
Frank Thompson
Sam Allison
E
Emma Kluge
Mrs. Watts
R
R.J. Hand
Grandpa Allison
Crew
- Director
- James Kirkwood
- Writer
- Maibelle Heikes Justice
Details
- Release date
- 1917-07-23
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- American Film Company