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Author: John Stuart Robertson
Publisher: United Artists
Year: 1922
PD: PD/US|1964
Note: Tess of the Storm Country is a 1922 silent drama directed by John Stuart Robertson. It is based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Grace Miller White, and is a remake of the previous 1914 adaptation. This version stars Mary Pickford as Tess as did the last adaptation.
Cat: Drama film, Films based on books
00:01
MARY PICKFORD
IN
TESS
OF THE
STORM COUNTRY
by
Grace Miller White
By arrangement with
Adolph Zukor.
00:15
Directed
by
John Robertson
00:23
Scenario
by
E. LLOYD SHELDON
and
JOSEPHINE LOVETT
.................
Photography
CHARLES ROSHER
00:33
FOREWORD
The re-creation of Tess of the Storm Country, under the improved conditions of modern photoplay production, is in response to a demand among my friends. It has been a work of devotion, for, of all the characters I have portrayed, Tess is the one I have most loved.
00:59
Nearly two thousand years ago, from a hill-top in Judea, came the sublime command: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
01:13
But this philosophy of the Great Teacher is often preached where never practiced—and sometimes practiced where never preached.
01:26
When Elias Graves built his home on the top of the hill, he anticipated little difficulty in getting rid of his squatter neighbors at the bottom.
01:40
But all of Graves' money and influence have been unable to upset "squatter law," under which these fisher folk cling to their miserable homesteads.
01:55
Elias Graves grows more stubborn with failure—his determination to disperse the squatters has become an obsession.
03:11
Teola Graves fears her father, who demands obedience rather than love.
03:20
Dan Jordan, a law student, has fascinated the lonely girl, but has failed to impress her father.
03:33
"Oh, Dan, if you could only find a way to drive out the squatters, father would do anything we ask."
03:47
Frederick Graves does not share his father's hatred of the squatters.
04:07
"Marvelous view, sir——if it weren't for your neighbors."
04:16
"Don't mention neighbors to me——filthy lot!"
04:28
"Ben Letts, clean up that mess. It air been there a week."
04:43
"Clean it up yerself."
04:55
"Have you tried to buy them out, Mr. Graves?"
05:04
"Buy them out? The land is already mine. I'd like to kick them out!"
05:14
"But, father, those people have no other place to go."
05:58
"Matter! Can't you smell what's the matter?"
06:08
"I'll attend to this, Mr. Graves."
06:17
"Frederick, if you had any spunk, you'd go with him."
06:28
"I might like young Jordan—if he'd get over the notion of becoming my son-in-law."
07:30
"Soak 'im, Tess—soak the hill-topper!"
08:10
"MY! You're awfully little to be so mad."
08:27
"Git off'n our land!"
08:58
"Ooh-hoo! Daddy!"
09:14
"She'd be a darn pretty kid if she were cleaned up."
09:52
"Keep yer eyes off'n her, Ezra Longman—she's fish fer my net!"
10:15
"They're breaking the law by netting. We can seize their nets and starve them out!"
10:33
"Dan dear, how splendid—you're winning father over."
10:48
"There's one of the godless lot now—shameless little hussy!"
12:40
"No hill-topper kin look me down."
13:18
"What's the matter with 'em?"
13:44
"Did you ever hear that 'cleanliness is next to godliness?'"
14:19
"Look, Daddy, what the flood brought in!"
14:51
"Mr. Skinner, I'm sorry my father feels as he does about you folks."
15:04
"Well, he's got his views—we got our'n."
15:40
"I wants a smack."
15:50
"Sure—I got a smack fer ye."
16:15
Jordan and the game wardens surprise the squatters.
19:32
"They've got a net in there."
19:38
"We'll catch them using it."
20:07
"Aw, Mister, how air we goin' to earn our beans and bacon?"
21:49
When the squatters begin to feel the pinch of hunger, Daddy Skinner gets out his net.
22:02
"I air warnin' ye, ye'll ketch more trouble than fish."
22:16
"I tells ye, old Graves air still watchin' with them shoe-button eyes of his'n."
22:24
"D'ye want us to sit 'round and starve?"
24:52
"We must be married at once, Dan—we dare not wait any longer."
25:21
"They've started out with the net, sir."
25:38
"If your father won't give his consent tonight, we will slip away and get married tomorrow."
25:57
"Count me out, father—I can't see it your way."
26:14
"They're using that net. Now's your chance to get them!"
26:35
"Daddy Skinner's gone nettin', and I air scared clear through the gizzard!"
27:06
"Ye'd be a pretty brat, Tess, if ye wasn't so dum dirty."
27:18
"I knowed a man once what died from takin' a bath!"
28:00
"——but if I'd been cleaned up I'd said to him——"
28:15
"I'll wash if it kills me!"
29:08
"I don't see how you could get so dum dirty in seventeen years."
30:52
"He's dead!"
31:02
Mr Elias Graves
— Announces the Marriage —
of his Daughter
— Teola —
To
Mr Daniel Jordan
31:27
"Is that your gun?"
31:52
"I won't give ye away, Ben Letts, if ye leaves Tess alone."
33:02
"Air Daddy gone home?"
33:17
"Your pap killed young Jordan—they've took 'im to jail."
34:00
"Ye're lyin' to me! Daddy Skinner never killed no man!"
35:32
"They shot Jordan!"
36:19
"Skinner did it—we caught him red-handed."
38:36
"Tell 'im Daddy Skinner wouldn't hurt nothin'—not even a fly."
38:53
"Then why did your father take his gun?"
39:06
"Daddy Skinner air gooder than you be——fer all yer church!"
39:24
"Dear God, if Ye lives in the sky, Ye'll save my Daddy, won't Ye?"
39:33
"Stop such blasphemy! Your father is a murderer——"
39:41
"——and I'll see that he pays the penalty!"
40:14
"Bad temper won't help you, Tess—or your father either."
40:24
"I air sorry I hitted yer dad."
40:31
"Don't mind what my father says, Tess. No prayer is blasphemy. You keep right on—praying."
42:12
"Ye didn't do the killin', did ye, Daddy?"
42:49
"Daddy, ye ain't goin' to hang, 'cause Someone air goin' to help ye—says so in the Book."
43:09
"I cribbed it from the church."
43:16
"They ain't got no right to have every Bible in this dum town."
43:54
Love watches.
44:52
First lessons.
45:13
"I kin read most of it, but some of the words air too dum long."
45:53
"Did He die on the Cross to save poor folks too—like Daddy Skinner?"
46:59
"Fred, I'm told you are furnishing money to defend Skinner."
47:11
"Oh, how could you, Frederick, when he killed poor Dan?"
47:19
"This is the last straw—I'm done with you!"
47:50
The daily bulletin from Tess.
47:59
my dear own daddy
I air sorry ye wont let me cum to the trial
so I will stay home and chase out the dirt
yer brat will be waiten fer ye on the door step
48:29
Ezra declares himself.
48:53
"I loves ye, Tess—oh, Gord, how I loves ye!"
49:20
"Trouble is, ye're in love—in love with that gosh-durn hill-topper!"
49:58
The awakening.
51:05
The trial—when the net of circumstantial evidence closes around the bewildered Daddy Skinner.
51:22
"This man deliberately set out to break the law, and to prevent interference, he carried a loaded gun——"
51:54
"Lemme out——I can't breathe——"
52:03
"——he was apprehended by officers of the law, and in attempting to escape, he shot down their leader in cold blood!"
52:13
Preparing for her father's homecoming.
53:35
"When air Daddy comin' home?"
53:45
"Looks like he ain't never comin' home."
54:07
Superior Court
dept.
3
54:28
"I guess ye don't know who I be—this here's my pap's trial."
54:45
"Defendant, stand up."
55:11
"Orn Skinner, a jury of your peers has found you guilty of murder."
55:43
"Ye've made a mistake, Mister Jedge."
55:49
"The Book says: 'Ask an' it shall be given'. An' every night on my knees I been askin' fer ye to come home."
56:07
"Daddy air to come home, ain't he, Mister Jedge?"
56:15
"I'm sorry, little girl, but your father must go back to jail—to await sentence."
57:04
"Tess darlin', ye're only makin' it harder fer yer daddy."
57:20
"I'm sorry I'm so cussed—'sides ye air comin' home, Daddy—afore long."
58:24
"You'd better go home, my child."
58:54
With faith still unshaken, Tess trudges home.
59:26
"Ye're comin' with me. Now yer pap's gone, ye needs a husband."
1:02:22
Ben Letts vows vengeance.
1:03:42
"Looks like the Jedge don't read his Bible—makin' a mistake like that."
1:03:55
"We're going to appeal your father's case. I'm sure it won't be long before he is home again."
1:04:47
"Tess, have you ever thought that sometime you and I—?"
1:04:56
"I air a squatter."
1:05:01
"I love you, Tess—and when I finish college—I'm coming back for you."
1:06:04
Ma Mollthe squatter's doctor.
1:07:26
The prolonged absence of her father on business has given Teola a false sense of security.
1:07:55
TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENTGEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
YB192 133 1-70
MISS TEOLA GRAVESGLENVILLE N Y
MY PLANS HAVE CHANGEDEXPECT TO BE HOME SOON
1:09:07
My own dear daddyOctober 2
the hilltoppers is keepen quiet
ben letts air a cuss
I air lonlie yit without ye
Mister Fredrik I like next to ye
he air nice
I reads in my bible as how christ ruz
he ruz up fer the whole world
cept ben letts
1:10:16
Afraid to live, but without courage to die.
1:12:43
"If it hadn't been for your father, Dan would be with me now—when I want him—when I need him most!"
1:12:56
"Afore God, Daddy never killed 'im!"
1:13:12
"Oh, the disgrace—the shame—I dare not face my father!"
1:13:51
DAWN.
1:14:39
"Why didn't you let us both die?"
1:14:57
Enmities are forgotten in another's need.
1:15:15
"What will I do with the baby? Father would kill me if he knew!"
1:15:34
"Well, the brat kin stay with me if ye air afeared to keep it!"
1:15:43
"Will you swear you will tell no one?"
1:15:55
"I won't tell nothin' to nobody—I swears it!"
1:16:15
Through the bleak months that follow, Tess bears another's burden.
1:16:58
"You can't go out at this hour—it's time you were in bed."
1:20:49
"You little thief—I'll teach you!"
1:21:05
"I've took my lickin'—now kin I have the milk?"
1:21:37
Frederick returns from college for the Christmas holidays, impatient to see Tess.
1:21:56
"I'm not going home. Take my baggage to the hotel."
1:22:27
"Poor little thing—nobody wants him! If only we both could go to his father."
1:22:53
"The poor little critter air got the croup somethin' awful----Maybe if ye prays hard enough ye might both be took!"
1:23:16
"I can't stand it no longer, Ben Letts—I air goin' to tell the truth about the killin'!"
1:25:12
"I came down to—to help—to comfort her."
1:25:31
"Go? Not much! It's been a thousand years since I've seen Tess!"
1:26:05
"Let's git some fire-wood."
1:26:27
"Whose is it?"
1:26:37
"Why—I—I found it——"
1:26:56
"Oh, Frederick, please don't question her any more!"
1:27:18
"Tess, is that child yours?"
1:28:34
"If I wants to keep a brat in this here shanty, it's nobody's dum business."
1:28:45
"You—the girl in whom I put my faith——"
1:28:55
"What do you know about faith? Git out of here!"
1:29:13
"Don't speak of her—it's horrible!"
1:29:38
Afraid of detection, Letts plans to escape, and determines to take Tess with him.
1:31:59
"Ezra, eh?"
1:32:26
"Brat or no brat, ye're goin' to marry me! Git yer duds!"
1:33:09
"Daddy Skinnernever—done it! Ben Letts killed Jordan!"
1:33:20
"Phone the police!"
1:36:36
"The dum bloke was tryin' to choke me into marryin' him."
1:36:49
"Why not?—I air the brat's pappy."
1:37:14
"I hopes my Daddy's neck will be twisted by the rope if Ben Letts ain't a liar."
1:37:25
"It's Ben Letts who will hang—Ezra has confessed."
1:39:35
"Won't ye believe in me?"
1:39:59
"I could throw ye out in the snow, I hates ye so!"
1:40:28
"Naw, I don't hate ye——I loves ye——ye poor, sick, miserable little dum devil!"
1:41:20
From over the snowy hill-tops Sabbath bells are calling.
1:41:40
"It is unchristianlike to pamper yourself in this way. Church will do you good."
1:41:55
In spite of Tess' tender care and sacrifice—
1:42:09
"That brat air dyin'."
1:43:00
"He's got to be sprinkled in the Church or God can't find him when he dies."
1:43:12
"Then ye'd better hurry."
1:44:57
Suffer Little Children
To Come Unto Me
And Forbid Them Not
1:46:00
"I brought ye a dyin' brat, Preacher, what's got to be sprinkled."
1:46:18
"The presence of that girl is an insult to every woman in this church!"
1:46:32
"But the poor little cuss air dyin'. He's got to be sprinkled or he won't never see the face of God."
1:48:12
"Give me my baby!"
1:48:47
"Is he—dead?"
1:52:26
And with the philosophy of the Great Teacher in his heart rather than on his lips, Elias Graves makes a Christmas call.
1:53:28
"On this day of days, I have come here in all humility to say that you have taught me the true meaning of Christianity."
1:53:58
"Well—I been kind of a cuss myself."
1:54:19
"Teola air happy now—she air with the man she loves."
1:54:43
"Mr. Graves, ye've met my daddy, ain't ye?"
1:55:13
"Peace on Earth
Good Will Toward Men"
1:55:52
Know thy neighbor as thyself—and thou canst not help but love him.
1:56:02
"Ye means ye're deedin' the village to all us squatters?"
1:56:14
"Can you ever care for me again?"
1:56:22
"I air Daddy's brat——"
1:56:32
"——but I air yer squatter."
1:57:02
The End