Melissa of the Hills (1917)
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.
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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
- Perry Banks — Dr. Brand
- Gertrude Le Brandt — Mrs. Sanders
- Harry Clark — Cutler Sanders
- Frank Thompson — Sam Allison
- Emma Kluge — Mrs. Watts
- R.J. Hand — Grandpa Allison
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