The Bishop of the Ozarks

[1] Roger Chapman, a wandering minister, his daughter, an infant named Margery, and Simon Gordon, a negro servant, find refuge in a cabin in the Ozark mountains.

A former prison-keeper arrives and denounces Sullivan as an escaped convict, but the Governor pardons him and all ends well.Milford W. Howard, who wrote and produced the film, was a United States representative from Alabama from 1894 to 1898, before moving to California in 1918.

While still in Alabama, Howard wrote If Christ Came to Congress (1894), an exposé of corruption, published again in 1964,[2] and The American Plutocracy (1895), a novel about "two classes of people...the excessively rich and the abject poor".

[1] Howard returned to Alabama in 1923, and after the death of his first wife, he remarried and traveled to Europe where he interviewed Benito Mussolini of Italy.

Copyright documents on file at the Library of Congress show the film was registered by the R-C (Robertson-Cole) Pictures Corporation, which has been suggested was the holding company of Cosmopolitan.

[9] A review of the film in the 1923 Exhibitor's Trade Review said the feature was "an extremely entertaining picture...in spite of the fact that films which suggest a religious atmosphere are seldom viewed with favor by the average citizen in search of amusement...in the present instance there is no propaganda developed regarding any particular belief, no attempt at preaching, merely a thoroughly human story, shot through with trenchant dramatic punches and, if there is a moral to be traced, it is simply that it pays in the long run to do the right thing and keep your nerve intact".