Melissa of the Hills

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

50 min

Cast:

Mary Miles Minter, Spottiswoode Aitken, Allan Forrest

Quality:

HD

Director:

James Kirkwood

Release:

1917

Country:

United States

Rating:

8.0