A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
{{short description|1912 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
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| director = D. W. Griffith
| producer =
| writer = D. W. Griffith
| starring = Mary Pickford
| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer
| editing =
| distributor = General Film Company
| released = {{film date|1912|10|3}}
| runtime = 17 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent with English intertitles
}}
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills is a 1912 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FeudInTheKentuckyHills1912.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: A Feud in the Kentucky Hills |access-date=November 30, 2009|work=Silent Era}} The film, by the Biograph Company, was shot on the Hudson Palisades near Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.{{Citation | last = Koszarski | first = Richard | title = Fort Lee: The Film Town | place = Rome, Italy | publisher = John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&q=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski | isbn= 0-86196-653-8 }}{{Cite web | title = Studios and Films | publisher = Fort Lee Film Commission | url = http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | access-date = May 30, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110405152556/http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html | archive-date = April 5, 2011 | url-status = dead}}{{Citation | last = Fort Lee Film Commission | title = Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2006 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&q=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry | isbn = 0-7385-4501-5 }} Additional filming took place in and around the Pike County town of Milford, Pennsylvania.{{Cite news|url=http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20091014/news/910149994|title=Historical films at Pike County's Columns Museum|newspaper=poconorecord.com|access-date=December 3, 2016}}
Cast
- Mary Pickford as The Daughter
- Charles Hill Mailes as The Father
- Kate Bruce as The Mother
- Walter Miller as A Brother
- Robert Harron as A Brother
- Jack Pickford as A Brother
- Henry B. Walthall as Psalm Singer
- Elmer Booth as Second Clan Member
- William J. Butler as First Clan Member
- Harry Carey as Second Clan Member
- Frank Evans as Second Clan Member
- Harry Hyde as First Clan Member
- J. Jiquel Lanoe as Second Clan Member
- Adolph Lestina as Second Clan Member
- Frank Opperman as Second Clan Member
- W. C. Robinson as Second Clan Member
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0002177|title=A Feud in the Kentucky Hills}}
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Category:1910s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Biograph Company films
Category:Short films directed by D. W. Griffith
Category:Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey
Category:Films shot in Pennsylvania
Category:Silent American drama short films
Category:Surviving American silent films
Category:English-language drama short films
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