Film · Famous Players · 1914
Pass it on
Tess of the Storm Country
65Worth an evening.
Play the 1914 Pickford; the town's respectability is what does the damage.
The review
Mary Pickford plays a squatter's daughter with a Bible, and a baby the town thinks is hers. This is the 1914 picture the public kept, not the later remake. A house can watch it. She is on the squatter's side, which is more than the spectacles around it usually manage.
The respectability of the town is the machine. That is the talk afterward, not the fame of the star. The town has already decided what the baby means. I won't add a twist the given facts don't have. Put this one on if you want a household under a respectable town's thumb.
Journal
Keep Tess of the Storm Country in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
October Sky
76 instead of 65
October Sky is still a drama film, and it scores 76 instead of 65. What you gain is industry: The rockets are practice, scrap, and more practice.
The eight
- 6Industry
Squatter life is set against a town that runs on respectability.
- 7Household
A daughter, a Bible, and a baby the town thinks is hers.
- 7Piety
She has a Bible while the town polices the baby's name.
- 7Courage
She stands with the squatters against the respectable town.
- 6Republic
The town owes its poor neighbors and spends the picture refusing.
- 6Temperance
Respectability is the machine, and the picture will not feed it.
- 6Truth
The town thinks the baby is hers, and that belief is the pressure.
- 7Stewardship
She takes the squatter's side, which leaves them someone.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · Tess of the Storm Country · 65IMDb
