Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Acting
Barthelmess's face tells entire novels without a single title card.
Cinematography
King shoots West Virginia like it's cursed by God Himself.
Direction
Henry King makes 99 years feel like yesterday's trauma.
Director
Henry King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
D.W. Griffith called this 'the greatest motion picture I have ever seen'—high praise from cinema's problematic godfather.
Barthelmess was 28 playing a teenager; Hollywood's age-inappropriate casting is literally a century-old tradition.
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