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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1025

Tess of the Storm Country

191480 minUnited States

Synopsis

Tess lives with her fisherman father in a settlement threatened by a wealthy landowner. A fishing ban destroys livelihoods, and a violent confrontation leaves her father accused of murder. Her romance with the landowner's son becomes more difficult when she protects his sister's secret at the cost of her own reputation.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 79:44
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Edwin S. Porter (1870–1941), B. P. Schulberg (1892–1957) · Public domain

Cast

Mary Pickford

DirectorsEdwin S. Porter

Inspirations

Mary Pickford first played Grace Miller White's heroine in this Edwin S. Porter adaptation, returning to the role in a later silent version. The story gives its poor young protagonist the moral courage denied to several socially respectable characters.

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Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain

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