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Tess of the Storm Country
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter (Edwin S. Porter)

Cast: Mary Pickford [Tessibel Skinner], Harold Lockwood [Frederick Graves], Olive Golden (Olive Fuller Golden) [Teola Graves], David Hartford [Daddy Skinner], Louise Dunlap [Old Mother Moll], W.R. Walters [Elias Graves], Richard Garrick [Ben Letts], Eugene Walter [Ezra Longman], Lorraine Thompson [Myra Longman], Jack Henry [Dan Jordan], H.R. Macy [Professor Young], H.L. Griffith [Old Longman]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed on State Rights basis by Famous Players Film Company. / Scenario by B.P. Schulberg, from the novel Tess of the Storm Country by Grace Miller White. Assistant director, David Hartford. Cinematography by Edwin S. Porter. Presented by Daniel Frohman. / Released 20 March 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Pickford’s fifth film for Famous Players. In 1922, Pickford purchased the rights to the film and its story from Adolph Zukor for $50,000.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4394.

Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive; and, likely, in the Mary Pickford Foundation film archive [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm duplicate positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Dogs - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Families: Father-daughter relationships - Fires

Listing updated: 5 October 2010.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4394; Brownlow-Parade p. 126; Everson-American p. 36; Eyman-Pickford pp. 61, 74-75, 77, 79, 327; Fell-History p. 47; Higashi-Virgins pp. 34, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49; Tarbox-Lost pp. 199-200, 205, 242 : Website-Legacy.

Home video: DVD.

 
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