Mountain Dew

Story

Synopsis

Magazine writer J. Hamilton Vance travels to the mountains of Kentucky to get local color for his stories, and falls in love with Roxie Bradley, the daughter of a moonshiner. Regarded at first with suspicion by the mountaineers, Vance finally wins their confidence and is appointed teacher in the little log school house. The former teacher, resentful at the intrusion, attempts to shoot Vance through the schoolhouse window, but Roxie intercepts the bullet. Vance nurses her back to health, engendering the jealousy of Lily Bud Raines, who starts a rumor that Vance is a federal agent spying on the moonshiners.

Director

Thomas N. Heffron

Writers

Monte M. Katterjohn, Julien Josephson

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

16 September 1917

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Margery Wilson

  Roxie Bradley

• 

  Charles Gunn

  J. Hamilton Vance

• Thomas Washington

  Roosevelt Washington

• 

  Al W. Filson

  Squire Bradley

• 

  Jack Richardson

  Milt Sears

• Aaron Edwards

  Lafe Grider

• 

  Mary Boland

  Lily Bud Raines