Helen Mundy in Stark Love (1927)
Dir.Karl Brown
A young boy named Rob Warwick reads chivalrous books about how women should be treated better than how he grew up in the mountains. He goes to the city to get an education. While he is away, his father and a close neighbor friend have made his life change drastically. Rob must defeat is personal demons (or someone else must) for him to be free of the stereotypical life of a mountain hillbilly.
*Filmed entirely with a non-professional cast. The two leads, Forrest James and Helen Mundy, were from Alabama and Knoxville, Tennessee, respectively, but the rest were authentic mountain people from Virginia. Despite their involvement as actors, these people had no interest in films, and never saw the movie after it was finished.
