The Shepherd of the Hills is a lost 1919 American silent drama film directed by Louis F. Gottschalk and Harold Bell Wright, and based on Bell Wright's 1909 novel of the same name. It was remade in 1941 by director Henry Hathaway.
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Plot
A world-weary man arrives in a small Ozark town to atone for the wrongdoing of his son, who had a child with one of the town's residents and left town years earlier.
Cast
Harry Lonsdale as The Shepherd
Cathrine Curtis as Sammy Lane
George A. McDaniel as Young Matt
Don Bailey as Old Matt
Elizabeth Rhodes as Aunt Molly
Lon Poff as Jim Lane
C. Edward Raynor as Little Pete
Bert Sprotte as Wash Gibbs
George Hackathorne as Ollie Stuart
Louis Darclay as The Artist
E.K. Kendall as Postmaster
Ardita Mellinina as The Girl at the Spring (credited as Ardita Mellonino)
William De Vaull as Doctor (credited as William P. Du Vaull)
J. Edwin Brown as Uncle Ike
Production
Wright was heavily involved in the production of the film; he preferred to shoot the film as more of a traditional play rather than cutting in and using close-ups of the actors. He even cast a neighbor, Phoenix resident Cathrine Curtis, as his leading lady. The film was produced by the Clune Film Company over the course of several months spanning from 1917 to 1918, and was shot in California and the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.