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Melissa of the Hills

1917 50 minutes

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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.

Released

23rd July 1917

108 years ago

Runtime

50 minutes

Finishes at 6:50pm

Directed by

James Kirkwood

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Written by

Maibelle Heikes Justice

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