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The Miller of Burgundy
Also known as {The Miller of Burgandy}
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Oscar Eagle
Cast: Frank Weed [Meunier, the old miller], Adrienne Kroell [Louise, the old miller’s daughter], Thomas Commerford [M. Bontemps, the Parisian capitalist], Allen Mathes [Charles Bontemps fils, the Parisian capitalist’s son], Barbara Swager [the stenographer], Fred Bernard (Frederick Bernard) [the doctor], Julius Frankenburg [the collector], Charles Barney [the waiter], [?] Hobart Bosworth?
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. From a screen story by John M. Bradley. / Released [?] 24 or 25? July 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? In the picturesque little Province of Burgundy, in eastern France, there lived an old miller named Meunier. With him the joy of his heart and administrator to his simple needs, lived his daughter, Louise. Meunier enjoyed the respect of the simple, easy-going peasantry thereabouts, and, from the profits of his grist mill, was enabled to live in comparative comfort and contentment. This happy condition was interrupted when one Mr. Bontemps a rich Parisian financier, decided that he needed Meunier’s mill. To his offers the miller, however, turned a deaf ear, and. when Bontemps’ son was sent to either purchase Meunier’s mill or start one in opposition, the old miller’s future looked dark and foreboding. Of how the opposition mill was started, and young Bontemps having met with a serious accident, was nursed and cared for by Louise and her father; of how the elder Bontemps himself, met with accident and how this incident awakened him to a realization of his greed, combine to make one of the sweetest stories of the year.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 January 2025.
References: Lahue-Selig p. 101 : Website-IMDb.
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