Tess of the Storm Country (1922) [Re-UP]

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Date: March 27, 2015

Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:58:04 | 4,24 Gb
Musical Score AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps with English intertitles
Genre: Drama, Romance, Classics

Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess's father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret, while caring for Elias' daughter's illegitamate child.

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Tessibel Skinner (Mary Pickford) and her fishermen neighbors are the despised occupants of a patch of land also occupied by wealthy Elias Graves (David Torrence). Infuriated by the slovenly habits of the fisher folk who squat on the land and fish in its waters illegally, Graves vows to have them ejected from the land. With the help of his daughter Teola's fiancan Jordan (Robert Russell), who is desperate to win Graves's approval, Graves concocts a scheme to drive the fishermen out of business through a law that prohibits fishing with nets.


So begins the twisting, turning plot of John S. Robertson's exciting melodrama Tess of the Storm Country (1922), about a spunky girl who fights back. In the course of the narrative, Tess sees her father blackmailed for murder, falls in love with Graves' son Frederick (Lloyd Hughes) and pretends to be the illegitimate mother of another woman's baby.


Pickford liked Tess of the Storm Country so much she made it twice, first in 1914 with director Edwin S. Porter (who had revolutionized film with his 1903 production The Great Train Robbery) and Famous Players producer Adolph Zukor, who claimed the film saved him from bankruptcy.


"After the release of Tess I was Mr. Zukor's fair-haired child," recalled Pickford. The entire production budget for the 1914 film, including Pickford's salary, was ten thousand dollars. The 1914 version was enormously successful, and led to a consolidation of Zukor's power and a doubling of Pickford's salary. But the 1922 remake was considered superior to Porter's version which was hampered by a static camera, stagey scenes, lack of close-ups and a style that had not progressed much beyond his Great Train Robbery days.


Tess of the Storm Country was the only film Pickford ever remade, though it was attempted two more times, in 1932 with Janet Gaynor and then with Diane Baker in 1960. Playing Tess offered Pickford the chance to consolidate her unique identity in motion pictures as "the best woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history," said Adela Rogers St. Johns. As the spunky, defiant Tess, Pickford played a rare role in Hollywood – a fearless heroine who rivals any male action character when it comes to bravery. Motion Picture Magazine described Tess as Pickford's most sympathetic role, noting that her performance "runs the gamut of her emotions, from childish appeal and spritely comedy to fine pathos and rugged dramatics."


Tess was adapted from a highly successful novel by Grace Miller White and was distinguished by the creative lensing of cinematographer Charles Rosher. An innovator in the field, Rosher worked with Pickford on some of her most successful silent productions. He even created the effect in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) in which Pickford played a dual role, and kissed herself in one scene. Rosher pioneered the use of stand-ins for stars and dummies in dangerous action scenes, and was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1918, serving as its first vice-president. Rosher's career was distinguished by numerous awards, including a shared cinematography Academy Award for Sunrise (1927) and an Oscar® for The Yearling (1946).
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I had never seen a silent movie until July 24, 2005. I had never seen a movie with Mary Pickford in it. I've seen thousands of movies. Very few are hypnotic to me. I found Last of the Mohicans and Unforgettable (Ray Liotta) to be hypnotic, so consider the source as you read this. I started watching Tess of the Storm Country just to see who this Mary Pickford was, who has been credited by many for launching Hollywood. I had no idea what I was in for. Two hours later, I snapped out of it, and realized I'd watched one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen, playing a role perfectly suited to her. Imagine a movie fan in 1922, having never seen anyone that gorgeous and that expressive before. You would have to see her again and again. The setting was perfect for a girl that expressive. She was a poor squatter, couldn't speak the King's English, but you had to admire her. What a movie… time to start my Mary Pickford movie collection!
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