Big Timber

Big Timber

Raging Forest Fires, Giant Logging Scenes, a Thrilling story, Two Big Stars- A Play You will Always Remember

NR 1917 · 50 min · Romance

Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the lumber camp. Charles Benton is having a struggle to make both ends meet, and when his cook quits, he makes his sister do the work for the hundred men in the lumber camp. Jack Fyfe, a neighboring lumber man, meets Stella and gradually falls in love with her, but love is not reciprocated. Seeing that she is being overworked, Fyfe offers to marry her, in spite of the fact that she does not love him. A child is born of this loveless marriage, and the couple are reasonably happy, until Walter Monahan, a wealthy lumberman, begins to make love to Stella.

Directed by William Desmond Taylor · Written by Gardner Hunting

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

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