M'liss

Duration: 50

Year Published: 1918

Creator: Festival Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: Pickford stars as M'liss, the untamed child of the mining town of Red Gulch, California. She lives with her father Bummer Smith, a hopeless drunkard, in a rickety shack in the woods and has a penchant for exacting revenge with her trusty slingshot. The hellion's life is changed with the arrival of the new schoolteacher, Charles Gray, who takes a special interest in her. When Bummer's wealthy brother Jonathan dies leaving a sizeable inheritance, his nurse Clare Peterson and her brother Jim journey to Red Gulch to steal the fortune from Bummer and M'Liss. Bummer is stabbed to death and Charles Gray is arrested for the murder. At the trial, M'Liss steadfastly defends the schoolteacher who is eventually exonerated. (Does not circulate).

Complete Record: Pickford stars as M'liss, the untamed child of the mining town of Red Gulch, California. She lives with her father Bummer Smith, a hopeless drunkard, in a rickety shack in the woods and has a penchant for exacting revenge with her trusty slingshot. The hellion's life is changed with the arrival of the new schoolteacher, Charles Gray, who takes a special interest in her. When Bummer's wealthy brother Jonathan dies leaving a sizeable inheritance, his nurse Clare Peterson and her brother Jim journey to Red Gulch to steal the fortune from Bummer and M'Liss. Bummer is stabbed to death and Charles Gray is arrested for the murder. At the trial, M'Liss steadfastly defends the schoolteacher who is eventually exonerated. (Does not circulate).