Stark Love (1927) Trailer

A few scenes from the hard-to-see silent film STARK LOVE, released by Paramount in 1927. The film, depicting life, customs, and hardships experienced by mountaineers living in the Great Smoky Mountains, was shot near Robbinsville, North Carolina
In 2009, Stark Love was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant. The film, directed by the great Karl Brown, was lost for decades before turning up in a single print at the Czechoslovakian film archives during the late 1960s. The obscure silent, currently unavailable via home video and streaming, stars Helen Mundy, an actress-dancer from Knoxville, Tennessee, and Forrest James, another Knoxville native who later relocated to Alabama. It was the only film for both.