Screenwriter Frances Marion's silent adaptation of a Bret Harte story vigorously evokes life among mountaineers, but director Marshall Neilan's lets the cast run wild and the result si too much emphasis on folksy comedy.
Rambunctious adolescent M’liss (Mary Pickford) lives in Red Gulch, perched in the High Sierras, with her aging and indulgent pa, Bummer Smith (Theodore Roberts). Fortunately, stage-coach driver Yuba Bill (Charles Ogle) and Sheriff Sandy Waddles (William Brown) keep an eye on M’liss and serve as occasional playmates. When handsome Charles Gray (Thomas Meighan) arrives armed with teaching credentials, most of the townspeople welcome him. But b...
Released:
1918
Rated:
n/a
Length:
75 mins