7.1
What Maisie Knew
2013
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
March 30, 19141h 20mEN
5.4
15 votes
Overview
A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.
Director
Edwin S. PorterWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
No Language
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Famous Players Film Company
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6.0Mary Pickford is "Tess" - a penniless girl who lives with her father in what we might, nowadays, call a shanty town on the shores of a lake. He makes his living by poaching until one day a corpse - the gamekeeper - is discovered and father (David Hartford) is in the frame for the murder. Needless to say, this leaves "Tess" in a bit of a tizz, before she is befriended by "Frederick" (Harold Lockwood) and his sister "Teola" (Olive Carey) who introduce her to God. With the aid of a filched bible, she begins to find hope and a case for optimism - which is duly rewarded when local law professor "Yo…
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