''The Secret of Black Mountain'' is a 1917

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short directed by Otto Hoffman and starring

Vola Vale Vola Vale (born Vola Smith; February 12, 1897 – October 17, 1970) was a silent film actress. Early career Vale was born in Buffalo, New York and educated in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Her high school friends in Rochester, New York, where she wa ...

. An incomplete print is preserved in the

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collection.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p.161 c.1978 the American Film Institute

Cast

- Miriam Vale *

Philo McCullough Philo McCullough (June 16, 1893 – June 5, 1981) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1914 and 1969. He was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Burbank, California. McCullough's film debut came in 1912 ...

- Blake Stanley * Charles Dudley - Ed Stanley * George Austin - George Cooper (* as Frank Austin) * Henry Crawford - Barton * Mignon LeBrun - Sarah Stanley * James Warner - Henry Stanley * Lewis King - Jake DeWitt * Jack McLaughlin - Jim Vale *

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- Jack Rance * H. C. Russell - Old Bill

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