
When the government turns the Little Smoky region into a forest and game preserve, the Brocktons challenge their rights to use the area as they please. Forest ranger Bob Hayne , falls in love with Anne, daughter of the Brockton clan leader; but Anne is jealous when Bob defends Gita, a Gypsy princess, from unwelcome attentions and when the Gypsy later saves his life.

The first time I saw Anne of Little Smoky—a 35 mm print flecked like a peregrine’s breast—I understood why the mountains of Kentucky once carried the nickname “the bloody Appalachians.” Frank S. Beresford’s 1921 silent, long buried in the Library of Congress’s backlog, is less a pastoral idyll than a powder-keg with w...

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" The first time I saw Anne of Little Smoky—a 35 mm print flecked like a peregrine’s breast—I understood why the mountains of Kentucky once carried the nickname “the bloody Appalachians.” Frank S. Beresford’s 1921 silent, long buried in the Library of Congress’s backlog, is less a pastoral idyll than a powder-keg with wildflowers growing out of the fuse. Every tableau feels soaked in turpentine: the moment federal proclamation turns ancestral hunting grounds into a “forest and game preserve,” the..."
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