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Phyllis of the Sierras
Also known as [Minty’s Triumph]
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by George E. Middleton
Cast: Beatriz Michelena [Minty Sharpe], William Pike [Frank Mainwaring], Andrew Robson [Mr. Sharpe, Minty’s father], Earle Emlay, Myrtle Newman, [?] Clarence Arper?
California Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by World Film Manufacturing Company. / Scenario by Charles Kenyon, from a novel by Bret Harte. / Released 28 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Young Lord Mainwaring leaves England for California in order to regain his health and to attend to business matters for his father. He becomes the guest of John Bradley, a lumberman, with whose daughter he falls in love. He also becomes sick and is nursed back to health by the girl. Another girl, Minty, a blacksmith’s daughter, also falls in love with him. Mainwaring proposes marriage to Miss Bradley by letter, but the letter does not reach her and he concludes she has refused him. Minty’s father becomes rich by a gold find. The young Lord disappears. He has lost his money in California. Years afterwards be meets Minty in Switzerland. She is rich and he is poor. She saves him from destitution and death; his heart goes out to her, and hers to him, and they are married.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 15 November 2020.
References: ClasIm-240 p. 47 : Website-IMDb.
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