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Director:
Karl Brown
Writers:
Karl Brown (writer)
Walter Woods (adaptation)
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Release Date:
28 February 1927 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Cast

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Helen Mundy ... Barbara Allen
Forrest James ... Rob Warwick
Reb Grogan ... Quill Allen
Silas Miracle ... Jason Warwick
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Runtime:
70 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Filming Locations:
Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina, USA
Company:
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation more

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Karl Brown stated years later that he regretted not waiting to make the film for a few more years. By then, he reasoned, sound and color film technology would have advanced enough for him the preserve the landscape of the shooting environment, and record the voices of the local people, who spoke Elizabethan English more

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Stark Love's Leading Man, 28 May 2007
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Author: John White from United States

Stark Love is a beautifully photographed, early example of neo-realism filmed on location in the mountains of Appalachia with resident non-actors -- real-life mountaineers. The film's leading lady, Helen Mundy, was acknowledged to be the only exception. She in fact was a Knoxville, Tennessee teenager who had appeared on stage as a dancer in "George White's Scandals."

In addition, contrary to Paramount publicity and to director Karl Brown's memoirs, Stark Love's leading man was not a simple mountain youth. Forrest James (Fob), along with his twin brother William Everett (Ebb), was a four-sport letterman of Auburn University (then Alabama Polytechnic Institute). He later taught high school history and coached baseball before becoming a successful small town businessman. One of his three sons, Fob Jr., became governor of Alabama.

Forrest James acquits himself well in Stark Love, playing the silent style of acting convincingly while displaying his great athleticism in the demanding action sequences. He fights, he rides horses, and at one point he swims a swift, flooding river. Director Brown considered James quite a "find" and Paramount was interested in bringing him to Hollywood.

However, Fob James turned down the studio's invitation. Honoring his mother's wishes, the college sophomore returned to Auburn to complete his education. After graduation, he devoted himself to family, business, sports, and community service. He seems never to have looked back on "what might have been."

The full story appears in "Film History: An International Journal," Volume 19, Number 1, 2007.

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