A Cumberland Romance (1920)
When Easter Hicks, a Kentucky mountain girl, becomes infatuated with Clayton, a civil engineer from the city, her father Pap Hicks vows to kill Clayton. Sherd Raines, a young mountaineer who loves Easter, prevails upon Pap to reconsider, but Sherd is finally overcome by jealousy and begins to mold a bullet to kill his rival. As he prepares the mold, Sherd hears a preacher's voice denounce him for his evil intentions and he spills the hot metal.
- Date of release
- 1920-08-06
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Charles Maigne
Casting
- Mary Miles Minter — Easter Hicks
- Monte Blue — Sherd Raines
- John Bowers — Clayton
- Guy Oliver — Pap Hicks
- Martha Mattox — Ma Hicks
- Robert Brower — Mountain Bishop
Interesting facts
A Cumberland Romance is a 1920 American silent drama film written and directed by Charles Maigne and starring Mary Miles Minter and Monte Blue, based on the 1899 novel A Mountain Europa by John Fox Jr. Maigne also wrote the screenplay. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's features still known to survive today.
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