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  • Hill Folks (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama, Family
Hill Folks (1912)
Short | Short, Drama, Family
Years before he had gone away, had crossed his native mountains into a country where might is measured by other things than the strength of arm and the amount of arms one possessed. He had gone and got cultured, that's what. He had ...See moreYears before he had gone away, had crossed his native mountains into a country where might is measured by other things than the strength of arm and the amount of arms one possessed. He had gone and got cultured, that's what. He had exchanged instinct for intelligence, cunning for intelligence, stealthiness for strategy. He had bartered brawn for brain, but he kept enough of the former for emergencies. He had studied the law and was returning to introduce and enforce it in a place where the only law was the denial and defiance of it. As he rode along the narrow road he came across Judith, a playmate of the old years and the sweetheart of his kid-hood days. She was now a woman, with the tender suggestion of young and yearning womanhood expressing itself in her shy recognition and bashful welcome. He gazed at her, and a dead memory of the young yesterday was resurrected and restored. Then, his eyes feasting on her pensive face, as though they were reluctant to look away from the sympathy and sincerity growing and glowing there, he rode on into the town. The mountaineers muttered sullen words when they saw the shingle, "Clem Parker, Attorney at Law." They resented his return and intrusion, and disliked the significant suggestion of the sign, to them a sign of no good omen. For between you and us, they were moonshiners, and his face looked too honest and earnest for their future prosperity and security. It happened at Judith's birthday dance. The leader of the clan, inspired by a quantity of whiskey, attempted to kiss Judith, and Clem struck him down. That night the clansmen held council in the old barn and decided to take peremptory vengeance on the offender. Judith, eagerly and anxiously listening, heard all, and quickly apprising her father they hastened to prepare Clem, but arrived just in time to be a little too late. The wounded lawyer and the fleeing riders conveyed the grim, graphic tale. Their second attempt to wreak their wrath upon Clem, when they hurled him over the precipice, only resulted in the discovery of the distillery in the cave below. Even their attempt to kidnap Judith was frustrated by a kid who had learned their purpose and communicated it to the sheriff. Determination and courage eventually triumphed over disorder and cunning, as they generally do. And the triumph included the victory of a greater law than that prohibiting moonshiners. For one night, while the old moon was smiling down upon a silly earth, Clem whispered something to Judith that brought a sweet blush to her cheeks and a tender glow to her eyes. And Judith said "yes." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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George Nichols (as George O. Nicholls)
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Updated Jun 18, 1912
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Jun 18, 1912 (United States)

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