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Norman Kerry and Constance Talmadge.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Up the Road with Sallie
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4585 feet
Directed by William D. Taylor (William Desmond Taylor)
Cast: Constance Talmadge [Sallie Waters], Norman Kerry [Joshua Cabot II, also known as Smith Jones], Kate Toncray [Martha Cabot], Thomas D. Persse [John Henderson, also known as John Johnson], Karl Formes [Judge Joshua Cabot], M.B. Paanakker [Richard Cabot], Larry Steers [the justice of the peace]
Select Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Lewis J. Selznick. Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers, from the novel Up the Road with Sallie by Frances Roberta Sterrett. Cinematography by Homer Scott. Film editor, Frank E. Garbutt. Presented by Lewis J. Selznick. / © 25 March 1918 by Select Pictures Corporation [LP12246]. Released April 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Sallie Waters inherits $5,000 along with other legatees unknown to her. Whichever of the heirs uses his initial bequest to the best advantage is to receive the main residue of the estate. Sallie abducts her dignified aunt, but a storm comes up, and they have to seek refuge in a deserted house. Two young men have also sought shelter in the same place, and Sallie recognizes the ring one of them is wearing as having belonged to her dead uncle, and concludes that they are burglars. They see Sallie’s roll of bills, and suspect her, too, of being thief. When the sheriff arrives and quarantines them each group believes its suspicions confirmed. But the arrival of the owner of the house brings about a surprising and unexpected denouement.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Robbery - Families: Aunts, Long-lost relatives, Nieces - Inheritances: Heiresses - Law: Attorneys, Judges, Lawyers - Weather: Storms - Wills
Listing updated: 28 November 2022.
References: Montgomery-Comedy p. ? : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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