A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	John Boles and Molly O’Day. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Alec B. Francis [David Howitt, the shepherd], Molly O’Day [‘Sammy’ Lane], John Boles [Young Matt], Matthew Betz (Mathew Betz) [Wash Gibbs], Romaine Fielding [Old Matt], Otis Harlan [‘By Thunder’], Joseph Bennett [Ollie], Maurice Murphy [Little Pete], Edythe Chapman [Aunt Mollie], Carl Stockdale [Jim Lane], Marian Douglas [Maggie], John Westwood [the artist]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [A First National Picture]. / Produced by Charles R. Rogers. Scenario by Marion Jackson, from the adaptation by Marion Jackson of the novel The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright. Cinematography by Sol Polito. Film editor, Hugh Bennett. Intertitles written by Dwinelle Benthall and Rufus McCosh. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / © 23 December 1927 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP24794]. Released 1 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as The Shepherd of the Hills (1919). The novel was subsequently filmed as The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). / [?] Silent film?

Drama: Rural.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: USA: Arkansas

Listing updated: 15 January 2025.

References: ClasIm-221 p. 53; ClasIm-278 p. 19 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.