Melissa of the Hills (1917)

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Original Title: Melissa of the Hills

Release Date: July 23, 1917

Runtime: 50 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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.