Big Timber (film)

Big Timber
1917 lobby card
Directed by	William Desmond Taylor
Produced by	Oliver Morosco
Written by	Bertrand William Sinclair (novel) Gardner Hunting (scenario)
Starring	Wallace Reid Kathlyn Williams
Cinematography	Homer Scott
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	July 5, 1917
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Big Timber is a 1917 American silent film Northwoods/drama produced by the Oliver Morosco Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William Desmond Taylor and starred Kathlyn Williams and Wallace Reid.^[1]^[2] Its survival status is classified as unknown,^[1] which suggests that it is a lost film.^[3]

The film was remade in 1924 by Universal with William Desmond starring.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] after the death of her father leaves Stella Benton (Williams) without a home, she goes to live with her brother Charlie (Paget) in the timber regions. The roughness of her surroundings proves a burden to Stella, and when Jack Fife (Reid), who loves her, asks her to marry him, she accepts even through she does not love him. Jack tries to win his bride's love, but to no avail. Finally, she goes to the city to try and forget her unhappy married life. She becomes infatuated with Walter Monahan (King), but after she sees him at a cafe with another woman, she realizes his fickleness, and her love for Jack comes to the surface. She returns to the timber regions where she is happily received by her husband.

Cast

Lumberman Jack Fyfe (Reid, left) is interested in Stella Benton (Williams). She is the cook for her brother Charlie Benton (Paget, right) at the lumber camp in this still.

Kathlyn Williams as Stella Benton
Wallace Reid as Jack Fife
Joe King as Walter Monahan
Alfred Paget as Charlie Benton
Helen Bray as Linda Abbey

unbilled

John Burton as undetermined

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Big Timber was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut in the scene involving the shooting of a man.^[5]

References

1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: Big Timber at silentera.com
↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Big Timber
↑ "Reviews: Kathlyn Williams in Big Timber". Exhibitors Herald (New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company) 5 (3): 25. 14 July 1917. Retrieved 2014-11-07.
↑ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald (New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company) 5 (4): 33. 21 July 1917. Retrieved 2014-11-10.

External links

Films directed by William Desmond Taylor

The Smouldering Spark (1914)*short
A Soul Astray (1914)*short
The Song of the Sea Shell (1914)*short
The Criminal Code (1914)uncredited
The Awakening (1914)*short
The Judge's Wife (1914)
When the Road Parts (1914)*short*
A Slice of Life (1914)*short
The Beggar Child (1914)*short
The Last Chapter (1914)
Brass Buttons (1914)*short
An Eye for an Eye (1915)
The High Hand (1915)
The Diamond from the Sky (1915)
Eyes That Cannot See (1915)*short
Tricks of Fate (1915)
The Lonesome Heart (1915)
The Soul of the Vase (1915)*short
Peggy Lynn, Burglar (1915)*short
A Woman Scorned (1915)
He Fell in Love with His Wife (1916)
Ben Blair (1916)
The Heart of Paula (1916)
Pasquale (1916)
The American Beauty (1916)
Davy Crockett (1916)
The Parson of Panamint (1916)
The House of Lies (1916)
Her Father's Son (1916)
Redeeming Love (1916)
Happiness of Three Women (1917)
Out of the Wreck (1917)
The World Apart (1917)
Big Timber (1917)
The Varmint (1917)
North of Fifty-Three (1917)
Jack and Jill (1917)
Tom Sawyer (1917)
The Spirit of '17 (1918)
Huck and Tom (1918)
Up the Road with Sallie (1918)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918)
Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918)
How Could You, Jean? (1918)
Johanna Enlists (1918)
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
Anne of Green Gables (1919)
Huckleberry Finn (1920)
Judy of Rogue's Harbor (1920)
Nurse Marjorie (1920)
Jenny Be Good (1920)
The Soul of Youth (1920)
The Furnace (1920)
The Witching Hour (1921)
Sacred and Profane Love (1921)
Wealth (1921)
Beyond (1921)
Morals (1921)
The Green Temptation (1922)
The Top of New York (1922)

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