A foundling baby, a lumber camp love triangle, and a brain specialist walk into 1919 cinema...
A baby, found strapped to a donkey in the North Carolina mountains where her father drowned, is called Twilight and raised by the Anwells. At sixteen, Twilight, in love with her foster brother Jim, who runs the family's lumber business, grows jealous when Elise Charmant, vacationing with her father, a brain specialist, monopolizes Jim at the Fireman's Ball.
Production
Authentic North Carolina mountain location shooting, rare for 1919.
Acting
Doris Kenyon's pantomime jealousy at the Fireman's Ball.
Director
J. Searle Dawley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director J. Searle Dawley directed the first Frankenstein film in 1910 and mentored a young D.W. Griffith.
This 'moonshine melodrama' subgenre peaked in 1910s Appalachia-set films, often shot by Northeastern crews who found the mountains 'exotic.'
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