The Shepherd of the Hills (1919 film)

1919 film directed by Louis F. Gottschalk and Harold Bell Wright

The Shepherd of the Hills

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 date

* May 1919 (1919-05) (USA)

Running time

| 10 reels
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

The Shepherd of the Hills is a lost 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

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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 left town years earlier.[1][2]

## Cast

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* Harry Lonsdale as The Shepherd
* Cathrine Curtis as Sammy Lane
* George A. McDaniel as Young Matt
* Don Bailey as Old Matt
* Elizabeth Rhodes as Aunt Molly
* Lon Poff as Jim Lane
* C. Edward Raynor as Little Pete
* Bert Sprotte as Wash Gibbs
* George Hackathorne as Ollie Stuart
* Louis Darclay as The Artist
* E.K. Kendall as Postmaster
* Ardita Mellinina as The Girl at the Spring (credited as Ardita Mellonino)
* William De Vaull as Doctor (credited as William P. Du Vaull)
* J. Edwin Brown as Uncle Ike

## Production

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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]

## References

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1. ^ "Shepherd of the Hills at Empire". The Buffalo Times. April 20, 1920. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
2. ^ "What the Davenport Theaters Will Offer Next Week". The Daily Times. March 1, 1919. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
3. ^ "The Author Does It All". The Wilmington Morning Star. December 21, 1919. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
4. ^ "The Eyes of the World". The Daily Ardmoreite. June 22, 1918. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
5. ^ "Coming to the Grand". The Topeka Daily Capital. March 15, 1919. Retrieved January 14, 2019.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Shepherd of the Hills (1919 film).

* The Shepherd of the Hills at IMDb
* The Shepherd of the Hills at the TCM Movie Database
* The Shepherd of the Hills at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films