Heart o' the Hills
About Heart o' the Hills
Thirteen-year-old Mavis Hawn hunts the men who killed her father in the Kentucky hills. Steve Honeycutt, who wants the coal under the land, courts her mother Martha. Mavis drives off the outsiders with a gun. Morton Sanders is shot. She is tried, freed, and sent to school. Six years later, adopted by Colonel Pendleton, she comes home, learns Steve killed her father, and shoots him. Martha lives. Mavis marries Jason Honeycutt, grown.
Cast & crew
More about Heart o' the Hills
Joseph De Grasse and Sidney Franklin directed. Bernard McConville adapted John Fox Jr.'s novel. Charles Rosher photographed. First National released it on November 30, 1919. Mary Pickford plays Mavis. Harold Goodwin plays Jason as a boy and Allan Sears plays him grown. Claire McDowell plays Martha. Sam De Grasse plays Steve. John Gilbert plays Gray Pendleton. Fred Huntley plays her grandfather.
Themes
Look
Charles Rosher shot the hills work in California.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Pickford plays Mavis at thirteen and six years later.
- Gilbert is Gray, the town boy, not Jason.
- Franklin shares the direction with De Grasse.
- The coal scheme is Steve's. Mavis's bullets are for her father's killers.
Scenes
- Mavis fires to scare the coal party off the land.
- She shoots Steve after she learns he killed her father.
Influenced by
- John Fox Jr.'s novel Heart o' the Hills
