This sound version of M'liss is a decent adaption of the Bret Harte novel. A bit
old fashioned for 1936. But both RKO and Fox Studios specialized in those
films that appealed to a rural audience.
Anne Shirley is in the title role and her part is a somewhat softer version of what Katharine Hepburn did with Spitfire. M'liss is a tomboy without much etiquette training. But her etiquette is refined under the patient tutelage of schoolteacher John Beal.
Both Beal and Shirley are the subject of a lot of malicious gossip from some of the old crones in the town. The place seems to have been cursed with more than its share.
A nice familiar group of characte3r players put some body into this rustic drama. It's surely was old fashioned, but I'm betting M'liss did well enough in the red states.
Anne Shirley is in the title role and her part is a somewhat softer version of what Katharine Hepburn did with Spitfire. M'liss is a tomboy without much etiquette training. But her etiquette is refined under the patient tutelage of schoolteacher John Beal.
Both Beal and Shirley are the subject of a lot of malicious gossip from some of the old crones in the town. The place seems to have been cursed with more than its share.
A nice familiar group of characte3r players put some body into this rustic drama. It's surely was old fashioned, but I'm betting M'liss did well enough in the red states.