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Over the Hill (1917)
50 min | Drama

Over the Hill (1917)

50 min | Drama

Amos Winthrop, owner of the Winthrop newspaper syndicate of "yellow" journals, delights in posing as the patron of ambitious youth, and he appoints Allan Stone as business manager of the "Daily Pioneer" at Columbia. The Rev. Timothy Neal, ...See moreAmos Winthrop, owner of the Winthrop newspaper syndicate of "yellow" journals, delights in posing as the patron of ambitious youth, and he appoints Allan Stone as business manager of the "Daily Pioneer" at Columbia. The Rev. Timothy Neal, compelled to resign his pastorate because of advancing years, arrives with his granddaughter Esther in Columbia, where the minister hopes to make a living selling books. The one failure in Amos Winthrop's life is his pampered son Roy; he sends him to Columbia to work as a reporter on the "Daily Pioneer" staff. Rev. Neal takes many and varied lessons in the gentle art of book-agenting but success does not come to him and Esther is at her wits' end trying to instruct her grandfather how to approach strangers. Their little store of savings dwindles. Jim Barnes is editor of the "Daily Pioneer" and he delights in applying big-city methods to a small-town paper. He prints sensational stories and is supported in his methods by young Winthrop. Stone, on the other hand, asserts that scandal about people kills advertising prospects. The owner of Columbia's largest department store is Henry Lawlor, and the Daily Pioneer advertising staff longs to secure Lawlor to an advertising contract. Pneumonia attacks Rev. Neal and he passes away, leaving Esther alone in the world. She has met both Allan Stone and Roy Winthrop. The time comes when the only hope of the "Daily Pioneer" is the Lawlor advertising contract. There is an agreement that if the paper fails to make a stipulated showing before a specified date, Allan Stone and Jim Barnes shall forfeit all claim to their respective shares of stock in said paper. Young Winthrop antagonizes Lawlor and it seems that the contract is lost. He prepares a story dealing with the purported elopement of Lawlor's daughter and the same is set in type. Esther, considering it a "spite story," burns the entire edition of the "Daily Pioneer," thus preventing the story from being read; she thus earns the gratitude of Lawlor, who gives the paper the advertising patronage. Amos Winthrop, summoned to Columbia, appreciates his son's foolishness and orders him to leave Columbia and return home where the father can keep an eye on the boy. Stone wins an allotment of stock in the "Daily Pioneer" and wins Esther for his bride. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
Gladys Hulette Esther Esther See fewer	Her New York (1917)
J.H. Gilmour Amos Winthrop Amos Winthrop See fewer	The Unfortunate Marriage (1917)
Dan Mason Reverend Timothy Neal Reverend Timothy Neal See fewer	The Scarlet Letter (1917)
William Parke Jr. Roy Winthrop Roy Winthrop See fewer	The Streets of Illusion (1917)
Chester Barnett Allen Stone Allen Stone See fewer	The Ancient Mariner (1925)
Richard Thornton Jim Barnes Jim Barnes See fewer	Anna Karenina (1915)
Joyce Fair Rose Lawlor Rose Lawlor See fewer	Buster Brown Gets the Worst of It (1914)
Paul Clerget Mr. Lawlor Mr. Lawlor See fewer	Two AM; or, the Husband's Return (1896)
Tula Belle Rose's Sister Rose's Sister See fewer	The Blue Bird (1918)
Inda Palmer Mrs. Finn Mrs. Finn See fewer	Nicholas Nickleby (1912)
John Carr Mike (as Johnny Carr) Mike (as Johnny Carr) See fewer	Daniel Boone (1923)
Billy Sullivan King Arthur (as William Sullivan) King Arthur (as William Sullivan) See fewer	The Winner (1926)