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Melissa of the Hills
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 70
Released: 1917-07-23
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Studios: American Film Company,
Melissa Stark, a young girl in the Tennessee mountains tries to unite feuding families (Allisons & Watts) and help her preacher father, Jethro, while navigating romance with lawyer Tom Williams and a mistaken identity crisis that leads to her father's tragic death, after which the families reconcile. The story involves a newspaper ad for a dress, a mistaken identification of Jethro as a murder fugitive by a deputy sheriff, and a violent confrontation that ends with Jethro's innocence proven but his life lost.
