M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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| Mary Pickford | ... |
Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
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| Theodore Roberts | ... |
John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
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| Thomas Meighan | ... |
Charles Gray
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| Tully Marshall | ... |
Judge Joshua McSnagley
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| Charles Ogle | ... |
Yuba Bill
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| Monte Blue | ... |
Mexican Joe Dominguez
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| Winifred Greenwood | ... |
Clara Peterson
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Helen Kelly | ... |
Clytemnestra Veronica McSnagley
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Val Paul | ... |
Jim Peterson
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William H. Brown | ... |
Sheriff Sandy Waddles
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John Burton | ... |
Parson Bean
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| Charles A. Post | ... |
Butch Saunders
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| Guy Oliver | ... |
Snakebit Saunders
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Steve Murphy | ... |
Man at Trial (uncredited)
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Harry L. Rattenberry | ... |
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| Charles Stevens | ... |
Mexican (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Marshall Neilan | ||
Written by
| Bret Harte | ... | (story in collection "Stories of the Sierras") |
| Frances Marion | ... | (writer) |
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| Walter Stradling | ||
Production Design by
| Wilfred Buckland | ||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Alfred E. Green | ... | assistant director (as Al Green) |
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- Artcraft Pictures Corporation (1918) (United States) (theatrical)
- Film Detective (2015) (United States) (DVD)
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| Taglines | The early-days of the gold rush to California finds a ragged, unkempt girl battling with the shrewd, strong men of that day and winning out by the sheer lovableness of her personality. (Print Ad- Gazette and Courier, ((Greenfield, Mass.)) 21 December 1918) See more » |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The ten-chapter story "M'Liss: An Idyll of Red Mountain" by Bret Harte was originally published in 1870 as part of his collection "The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches," in 1870. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997). See more » |