The “Dances with Wolves” of Appalachia … screenplay & story by Michael Johnathon
STATUS: The MOVIE SCRIPT is complete and ready. Watch this VIDEO SYNOPSIS of the Caney Creek script below (4-minutes)
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The CANEY CREEK Motion Picture presents the rustic, wonderful, positive nature of the mountain people. Appalachia is the most romantic, mysterious, stunningly beautiful and misunderstood region in America … and the story of Alice Lloyd is one of the most incredible legends of the mountains. Appalachia needs champions, Alice Lloyd needs champions, the Caney Creek movie needs champions that will make this motion picture a reality.
WATCH THE 11 MINUTE VIDEO PRESENTATION:
See the entire 25-minute NBC This Is Your Life episode on the SCRIPT PAGE
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“CANEY CREEK: The Legend of Alice Lloyd” is a motion picture that tells the dramatic, true story of Alice Lloyd. It is the journey of a strong, independent woman set in Appalachia, one of the most romantic, misunderstood regions of America.
Alice and Abisha Johnson
ONCE UPON A TIME
There was a woman from Boston, a 40 year old journalist at the Boston Globe who had a stroke and her doctors recommended she move south to a warmer climate. Her pastor offered in abandoned missionary home in Knott county KY and she move there in November 1915. It ended up being a very cold and brutal winter but a mountain man had a dream that she would teach his children to read. So he hiked across two mountains in the snow in the middle of the night and offered her his property as payment if she would move to his holler in Knott County.
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This is an incredible story of heart, passion, loyalty and friendship. It is the cinematic story of Appalachia, one of the most mysterious, magical and mystical places in America. “Caney Creek: The Legend of Alice Lloyd” climaxes in 1955 when, although faced with bankruptcy and the end of her life, she journeys to California and appears on the NBC broadcast of Ralph Edwards “This Is Your Life” television program.
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Think Coal Miner’s Daughter meets Grapes of Wrath
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