The Shepherd of the Hills (1919 film)

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The Shepherd of the Hills
File:The Shepherd of the Hills-1919-newspaperad.jpg
Contemporary newspaper advertisement
Directed by Louis F. Gottschalk
Harold Bell Wright
Written by Harold Bell Wright
Based on The Shepherd of the Hills
1907 novel
by Harold Bell Wright
Starring Harry Lonsdale
Cathrine Curtis
George A. McDaniel
Cinematography Homer Scott
Distributed by W.T. Gaskell
Release dates
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  • May 1919 (1919-05) (USA)
Running time
10 reels
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Shepherd of the Hills is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Louis F. Gottschalk and Harold Bell Wright, and based on Bell Wright's 1909 novel of the same name. It was remade in 1941 by director Henry Hathaway.

Plot

A world-weary man arrives in a small Ozark town to atone for the wrongdoing of his son, who had a child with one of the town's residents and split town years earlier.[1][2]

Cast

Production

Wright was heavily involved in the production of the film; he preferred to shoot the film as more of a traditional play rather than cutting in and using close-ups of the actors.[3] He even cast a neighbor, Phoenix resident Cathrine Curtis, as his leading lady. The film was produced by the Clune Film Company over the course of several months spanning from 1917 to 1918, and was shot in California and the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.[4][5]

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