Told in the Hills

Told in the Hills
Film poster
Directed by George Melford
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Written by Will M. Ritchey
Based on Told in the Hills
by Marah Ellis Ryan
Starring Robert Warwick
Cinematography Henry Kotani
Paul P. Perry
James Wong Howe (assistant camera)
Distributed by Paramount / Artcraft
Release date
September 21, 1919
Running time
6 reels; 1,800 meters
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Told in the Hills is a 1919 American silent western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Artcraft. George Melford directed the film and Robert Warwick stars.[1]

The film survives at the Russian Film archive, Gosfilmofond.[2]

Cast

Film still

Production

Told in the Hills was filmed on location in Lewiston and Lapwai, Idaho, and employed hundreds from the Nez Perce tribe.[3] It was claimed that during the production of the film was the first time so many men of the Nez Perce had been allowed to gather since the Nez Perce War of 1877.[3]

References

  1. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Told in the Hills
  2. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Told in the Hills
  3. 1 2 Faubion, James D., ed. (2001). The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 19. ISBN 0-7425-0956-7.


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