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The Heart of the Hills
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Walter Edwin
Cast: Mary Fuller [Lizabeth Anne], Charles Ogle
Victor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Released 19 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Lisbeth Ann is a child of the wilds. In a gingham gown and bare feet she roams the mountain sides as care-free as the birds which carol in the pine trees above her. Creeping along the mountain trail one morning she overhears two men discussing a land deal in which her father has been concerned. To her dismay she learns that her father has disposed of a valuable piece of land underneath which are rich coal veins. Realizing that her father has been duped, the girl is about to shoot the man who has bought the property, when his kindly face restrains her. She tells her father of the imposition, and her parent calls the hill men together. He warns a young surveyor who has conducted the negotiations that he intends to recover his former property. The young surveyor, who also is the son of the purchaser of the property, defies the mountaineer and a pitched battle results in which the young man is wounded. Pity for the handsome young man overtakes Lisbeth. and gathering him into her arms she takes the young surveyor to her home, where, much against her father’s wishes, she nurses him back to health. Young Matthews, the surveyor, falls in love with his rosy-cheeked nurse during the long weeks of his convalescence and his fiancée, a wealthy heiress from the city, soon discovers his infatuation during a visit to Lisbeth’s cabin. When her attempts to regain young Matthews’ regard prove futile, the heiress plans to bring about Lisbeth’s ruin. Accordingly, she invites the untutored child to the city, promising to educate her and make her “worthy of the man she is to marry.” She introduces the child to some of her male friends of doubtful reputation and encourages them in making mad love to the little mountain girl. Shamed by the child’s all-too-apparent innocence, they make a pet of her. On every hand Lisbeth’s naive ways and charming disposition open to her the doors of the most exclusive homes in the great city and the heiress’ plans to corrupt the child fail miserably. In the end the daughter of the hills marries the sweetheart she has nursed back to health and her father, incidentally, is given a part ownership in the coal mines which are sunk on his old property.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 November 2022.
References: Edmonds-BigU p. 30 : Website-IMDb.
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