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Melissa of the Hills (1917)

★ 8.0/10 50 min Drama United States English
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Description

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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Mary Miles Minter
Mary Miles Minter Melissa Stark
Spottiswoode Aitken
Spottiswoode Aitken Jethro Stark
Allan Forrest
Allan Forrest Tom Williams
George Periolat
George Periolat Cyrus Kimball
John Gough
John Gough Larry Watts
Anne Schaefer
Anne Schaefer Sally Smith
Perry Banks Dr. Brand
Gertrude Le Brandt Mrs. Sanders

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