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A Cumberland Romance (1920)

A Cumberland Romance poster
Directed by
Charles Maigne
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from the Cumberland Mountains gets caught between two men and her own desire for a different life. The story follows her choices in a tight-knit rural community.

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What happens

A Cumberland Romance is a 1920 American silent drama film written and directed by Charles Maigne and starring Mary Miles Minter and Monte Blue, based on the 1899 novel A Mountain Europa by John Fox Jr. Maigne also wrote the screenplay. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's features still known to survive today. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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