Big Timber (1917)
Overview
Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the lumber camp. Charles Benton is having a struggle to make both ends meet, and when his cook quits, he makes his sister do the work for the hundred men in the lumber camp. Jack Fyfe, a neighboring lumber man, meets Stella and gradually falls in love with her, but love is not reciprocated. Seeing that she is being overworked, Fyfe offers to marry her, in spite of the fact that she does not love him. A child is born of this loveless marriage, and the couple are reasonably happy, until Walter Monahan, a wealthy lumberman, begins to make love to Stella.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.001 |
Directed By
William Desmond Taylor
Crew
William Desmond Taylor
Gardner Hunting
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Homer Scott
TOP CAST
Kathlyn Williams
Stella Benton
Wallace Reid
Jack Fife
Joe King
Walter Monahan
Alfred Paget
Charlie Benton
Helen Bray
Linda Abbey
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