Siddhesh Joshi (Editor)

Big Timber (film)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
8
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
8
1 Ratings
100
90
81
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Cinematography
  
Homer Scott

Genre
  
Romance Film

Country
  
United States

Director
  
William Desmond Taylor

Produced by
  
Oliver Morosco

Duration
  

Big Timber (film) movie poster

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.

Contents

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

  • Kathlyn Williams as Stella Benton
  • Wallace Reid as Jack Fife
  • Joe King as Walter Monahan
  • Alfred Paget as Charlie Benton
  • Helen Bray as Linda Abbey

    • unbilled

  • John Burton as undetermined

    • 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

    Big Timber (film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Big Timber (film) IMDb Big Timber (film) themoviedb.org