Mountain Justice

Mountain Justice (1937)

Genres - Drama, Romance  |   Sub-Genres - Melodrama  |   Release Date - Apr 24, 1937 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 82 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch still must endure his vicious beatings. Finally her mother and other friends counsel her to leave the hills. She does and ends up in New York where she enrolls in nursing classes. While studying, she also meets the dashing young attorney who helped convict her father of a shooting several months before. After graduating, she returns home to assist a doctor in a free clinic. Unfortunately, her father will not let her back into the family home, which causes her no pain at all. When the ruthless father begins attempting to sell off her younger sister as a child bride, the nurse comes to her aide. A fight ensues between father and daughter culminating in the father's accidental death. Her beau defends her in court, but she is sentenced to 25 years in prison anyway. Unfortunately, the locals are angered by the killing and decide to get their own revenge and lynch her. Fortunately, the lawyer saves her and bundles her on a plane and gets her away from there. This film is adapted from a true story.

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abuse, accident, backwoods, bride, child, child-abuse, clinic, convict, conviction, country-girl, damsel-in-distress, daughter, defense [military], doctor/nurse, employment, escape, family, father, forbidden, help, hillbilly, home, homecoming, house, justice, killing, lawyer, lynching, manager, mother, mountains, obstacle, physical-abuse, prejudice, prison, resentment, return, safety, sentence [penal system], sister, town, tyrant