Big Timber (film)
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Cinematography Homer Scott Genre Romance Film Country United States | Director William Desmond Taylor Produced by Oliver Morosco Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent (English intertitles) Release date July 5, 1917 Writer Gardner Hunting, Bertrand W. Sinclair (novel) Cast Kathlyn Williams (Stella Benton), Wallace Reid (Jack Fife), Joe King (Walter Monahan), Alfred Paget (Charlie Benton), Helen Bray (Linda Abbey)Similar movies William Desmond Taylor directed Big Timber and Huck and Tom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Timber is a 1917 American silent film Northwoods/drama produced by the Oliver Morosco Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William Desmond Taylor and starred Kathlyn Williams and Wallace Reid. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film.
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The film was remade in 1924 by Universal with William Desmond starring.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, after the death of her father leaves Stella Benton (Williams) without a home, she goes to live with her brother Charlie (Paget) in the timber regions. The roughness of her surroundings proves a burden to Stella, and when Jack Fife (Reid), who loves her, asks her to marry him, she accepts even through she does not love him. Jack tries to win his bride's love, but to no avail. Finally, she goes to the city to try and forget her unhappy married life. She becomes infatuated with Walter Monahan (King), but after she sees him at a cafe with another woman, she realizes his fickleness, and her love for Jack comes to the surface. She returns to the timber regions where she is happily received by her husband.
Cast
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Reception
Like many American films of the time, Big Timber was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut in the scene involving the shooting of a man.
References
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