The trail of the lonesome pine film location movie#

The trail of the lonesome pine film location movie#

There hasn’t been a movie from Fox’s novel since then. The movie Hathaway and writer Grover Jones made for producer Walter Wanger in the late summer and early autumn of 1935 was the last, but not the first from Fox’s book there had been three silent ones, in 1914, 19. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - all by themselves, the words conjure up a time, a place, and a heart-on-the-sleeve sentimental romanticism. Even if you’ve never heard of him or his books (and these days, most people outside Virginia and Kentucky haven’t), you feel as if you know what the story’s about the minute you hear it. Fox managed somehow to come up with one of those perfect titles.

In the wake of the 1936 movie, there was a stage adaptation that is still performed every summer (“official outdoor drama of the Commonwealth of Virginia”) in Big Stone Gap, Va., where Fox died in 1919. The novel has gone in and out of print (it’s currently in), but its popularity has never really gone away. They’re not uncommon, even after 102 years, and they’re not expensive no telling how many times used copies like this one have been sold, resold, and resold again since 1908. It may look familiar if you’ve spent any time at all in a used bookstore, you’ve probably seen several copies.

In any case, here’s what Fox’s novel looks like. Surely in the hundreds of thousands, probably more one source I found said 1.3 million, at a time when a million-selling book was something to write home about. Records being what they were in those days, it’s hard to know exactly how many copies it sold.