M'Liss (1918)
The School Master begins to like M'Liss.
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.
- Date of release
- 1918-05-05
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Marshall Neilan
Casting
- Mary Pickford — Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
- Theodore Roberts — John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
- Thomas Meighan — Charles Gray
- Tully Marshall — Judge Joshua McSnagley
- Charles Ogle — Yuba Bill
- Monte Blue — Mexican Joe Dominguez
- Winifred Greenwood — Clara Peterson
- Helen Kelly — Clytemnestra Veronica McSnagley
- Val Paul — Jim Peterson
- William H. Brown — Sheriff Sandy Waddles
- John Burton — Parson Bean
- Charles A. Post — Butch Saunders
Interesting facts
- Based on: Mliss
M'Liss is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion and based on the 1863 novella M’liss: An Idyll of Red Mountain by Bret Harte. The film was made previously in 1915 and was remade again in 1922 as The Girl Who Ran Wild, starring Gladys Walton. Another same-titled remake was released in 1936, starring Anne Shirley.
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