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5 May 1918 (USA)
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The School Master begins to like M'Liss.
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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...
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Mary Pickford's M'liss Screening at Pickford Institute
(From Alt Film Guide. 8 May 2011, 11:10 PM, PDT)
(From Alt Film Guide. 8 May 2011, 11:10 PM, PDT)
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Another feisty Pickford showcase
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Cast
(in credits order) | 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 (as W.H. Brown) |
| John Burton | ... | Parson Bean |
| Charles A. Post | ... | Butch Saunders |
| Guy Oliver | ... | Snakebit Saunders |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Steve Murphy | ... | Man at Trial (uncredited) |
| Harry L. Rattenberry | ... | Undetermined Role (uncredited) |
| Charles Stevens | ... | Mexican (uncredited) |
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| Marshall Neilan | |||
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| Bret Harte | story in collection "Stories of the Sierras" | |
| Frances Marion | writer | |
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| Walter Stradling | |||
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| Wilfred Buckland | |||
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| Alfred E. Green | .... | assistant director (as Al Green) | |
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- Paramount Pictures (1918) (USA) (theatrical) (as Artcraft Pictures Corporation)
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This story boasts a fine silent film star cast, including Pickford, Meighan, and Blue, and the screenplay by Frances Marion has funny moments and title cards to go along with the story of a backwards girl fighting to save the local innocent schoolteacher from being convicted for the murder of her father.
I loved the moment where Pickford confronts Meighan about the murder. Their faces are close together through the bars of the jail cell and they communicate with eyes and facial gestures alone (no title cards) so that we know what is transpiring between them without a word needing to be said. Beautiful. Meighan had such a strong masculine face, no wonder why he was so popular in the silent days as a leading man and why all the actresses loved to work with him.
At times the story seems rambling, but half-way through it becomes very cohesive and you really learn to care for these characters and their fate.