
Young playwright Harold Montague travels to the Kentucky mountains to seek the local color that his manager has complained is lacking in his new play. There he falls in love with Kate Kendall, a mountain girl, and tries to befriend a group of moonshiners, who regard him with suspicion because of their fear of revenue officers.

Thomas J. Geraghty, George D. Baker
United States

Moon-cradled hollers, copper-pot stills breathing ghost-white vapor, and a Manhattan playwright who has never wiped Appalachian dust from his spit-shine shoes—Her Inspiration arrives in 1918 like a lantern flickering between two irreconcilable Americas.George D. Baker, directing from a Thomas J. Geraghty scenario,und...

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" Moon-cradled hollers, copper-pot stills breathing ghost-white vapor, and a Manhattan playwright who has never wiped Appalachian dust from his spit-shine shoes—Her Inspiration arrives in 1918 like a lantern flickering between two irreconcilable Americas.George D. Baker, directing from a Thomas J. Geraghty scenario,understands that the real cliffhanger is not the braided rope around Harold Montague’s neck but the culture rope stretched between Broadway footlights and Kentucky mountain dusk. We ..."


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