In 1921, a 15-year-old actress named Mary Astor began her long film career. She appeared in 6 films that year, 3 of which were shot in Maine. The Maine "north woods" stories were directed by Philip Carle and based on stories by Holman Day,.
In this 28-minute film, Astor stars as Norah Collison, the young woman who owns a huge timberland in Maine, full of white pines. As she arrives to take control of her company, her manager and rival logger are planning to log the woods and steal the pines. They've sent for a forestry school (Yale no less) graduate (Huntley Gordon) to help assess the illegal haul, but he has ridden on the stage from the railroad with Astor and is smitten. Once he overhears the plans, it rounds up the townspeople and there is a battle with dynamite on the site of the white pines.
Nice location shooting around Augusta, Maine. Day was a prolific author and many of his stories were filmed.
Co-stars are Fred Bond as Duberry, Charles Slattery as Strott, and Bradley Barker as Wiggins.
Astor is stunning and so is the location shooting.
