Up the Road with Sallie

1918 American film

April 1918 (1918-04)

Running time

50 minutesCountryUSALanguageSilent..English intertitles

Up the Road with Sallie is a surviving^[1] 1918 silent film comedy-romance directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Constance Talmadge. It was produced by Lewis J. Selznick and released through his Select Picture Corporation. It is preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Constance Talmadge - Sallie Waters
Norman Kerry - Joshua Cabot II, alias Smith Jones
Kate Toncray - Martha Cabot
Thomas Persse - John Henderson, alias John Johnson
Karl Formes - Judge Joshua Cabot
M. B. Paanakker - Richard Cabot

Critical appraisal

Up the Road With Sallie is “typical of many unpretentious but entertaining features” that in the silent era ran about an hour (typically of 4-or 5-reel productions). Film historian Charles Hopkins of the UCLA Film and Television Archive remarks:

“Sallie is notable on two counts: for a sparking performance by leading lady Talmadge (best remembered today as the Mountain Girl in the Babylonian sequence Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) and as a rare surviving film by William Desmond Taylor, whose unsolved 1922 murder ended the career of Mary Miles Minter...”^[4]

Footnotes

^ Talmadge, Constance (May 21, 1918). "Up The Road With Sallie" – via memory.loc.gov.
^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.
^ "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Up the Road with Sallie".
^ Hopkins, 2004

Sources

Hopkins, Charles. Up the Road with Sallie, 1916. UCLA Film and Television Archive: 12th Festival of Preservation, July 22-August 21, 2004. Festival guest handbook.