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Stark Love, the 1927 Karl Brown silent hillbilly romantic melodrama ("Story by Karl Brown"; "Adaptation by Walter Woods"; about a young man who grows up in hillbilly mountain country in Virginia, where the people were cut off from the rest of the world, and he sees how women are treated, and he moves to a big city, but then he is very changed, and doesn't fit in when he returns to his home town) starring Helen Mundy (in her only movie role!), Forrest James (in his only movie role!), Reb Grogan, and Silas Miracle. Note that if you are familiar with the 2010 movie "Winter's Bone", you will have an idea of what this movie was like. Director Karl Brown found a non-actor from Alabama and a non-actress from Tennessee who he thought would be perfect for his leads, and he took them with him to an authentic place in Virginia where mountain people lived, and he filmed this movie, and none of the cast were professional actors! The local people participated in the making of the movie because they were paid, but they were so uninterested in it that they never saw the final product! The movie had some "firsts" in it, including that the director filmed the movie with only natural light, even in the night scenes, and none of the cast wore makeup, even the leads. The movie was silent, which was probably just as well, because the local people spoke an unusual dialect that sounded like Elizabethan English, and were super difficult to understand, so they would have likely have needed to be subtitled! The movie originally ended with a rape scene, but the director cut that, and added a scene where the town was flooded! A very interesting post script is that the female star, Helen Mundy, was 16 years old, and she was described by the director as "the most difficult person I ever had anything to do with". This is especially funny because a still from the movie we have auctioned says that "Miss Mundy seemed such a promising screen type that she was brought to New York and signed to a contract". Obviously, those New York people shared the director's view of Miss Mundy, because she never made another movie, although she lived a long life and passed away in 1987 at the age of 77!

Important Added Info: Note that we were consigned two stills from this movie, and we auctioned the first one in August 2016, and this is the second one, and we doubt that we will ever see another, given how obscure this movie is (and we have never seen anything else on it)!

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