Released April 18, 1918
Role: Melissa ‘M’liss’ Smith
Co-stars: Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue, Winifred Greenwood
Prod/Dist Co: Mary Pickford Film Corporation/Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Artcraft Pictures Corporation
Director: Marshall Neilan
Screenwriter: Frances Marion, based on the 1873 novel by Bret Harte
Cinematographer: Walter Stradling
Filming Location: San Bernardino Mountains near Idyllwyld, CA
Original review from the Los Angeles Times (April 8, 1918):
It matters not to Mary Pickford whether she is posed as a saint or a little devil – she falls gracefully into either attitude, and stays persistently ‘in the picture’ till the film fades into the circumambient nothing. Which is only another way of telling you – what you know already – that Mary is a consummate actress, imbued with art to her very finger tips, and even to her very toe tips. (Her feet are more expressive than most people’s faces.)