''The Miller of Burgundy'' (sometimes spelled ''Burgandy'') is a 1912 American

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

drama produced by Oscar Eagle. The film stars Frank Weed and

Adrienne Kroell Adrienne Kroell (December 13, 1892- October 2, 1949), was an American actress. She appeared in over 75 to 90 films between 1909 and 1914. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She later moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Yeatman High Scho ...

Plot

In the picturesque little province of Burgundy in Eastern France, there lived an old miller named Meunier. With him, the joy of his heart and administrator to his simple needs, lived his daughter Louise, she of the dancing eyes and roughish beauty. Meunier enjoyed the respect of the simple easy going peasantry thereabouts and, from profits of his grist mill, he was enabled to live in a comparative comfort and contentment. This happy condition was interrupted when one Monsieur Bontemps, a rich Parisian financier and mill speculator, decided that he need Meunier's mill. To his offers, the miller however, turned a deaf ear and when Bontemp's son was sent to either purchase Meunier's mill, or start one in opposition, the old miller's future looked dark and foreboding. How the opposition mill was started, and how young Bontemps, having met with a serious accident, was nursed and cared for by Louise and her father; of how the Elder Bontemps himself, met with an accident and how this incident awakened him to a realization of his greed, all combine to make one of the sweetest stories of that year. It is pictured in a simple, charming manner amid the quaint, picturesque backgrounds of that romantic country.

Cast

* Frank Weed - an old miller *

- Louise Meunier *

Thomas Commerford Thomas Commerford (August 1, 1855 in New York City - February 17, 1920 in Chicago) was an American actor on stage and in silent films. He was also known as Tom I. Comberford and T. I. Comberford. Commerford debuted in the Old Drury Theater, th ...

- Bontemps (Bontempts), billed as T. J. Comberford * Allen Mathes - Charles Bomtenps * Barbery Swager - a stenographer * Fred Bernard - a doctor *

Julius Frankenburg Julius Frankenberg was an American silent film actor and director. He starred in films such as '' The Haunted House'', ''Personal Magnetism'' and '' A Blowout at Santa Banana'' working with actors such as Harry von Meter and Louise Lovely. He also ...

- a collector * Charles Barney - a waiter

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