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M'Liss (1918)

M'Liss poster
Directed by
Marshall Neilan, Alfred Edward Green
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 13m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wild young girl grows up in a rough gold mining town in California. She gets into trouble and finds romance with a new schoolteacher.

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What happens

M'Liss is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion and based on the 1863 novella M’liss: An Idyll of Red Mountain by Bret Harte. The film was made previously in 1915 and was remade again in 1922 as The Girl Who Ran Wild, starring Gladys Walton. Another same-titled remake was released in 1936, starring Anne Shirley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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