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.

• Release date
• July 23, 1917
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• James Kirkwood

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