Edwin S. Porter Articles

Tess of the Storm Country (1914) Direction: Edwin S. Porter Screenplay: B. P. Schulberg; from Grace Miller White's novel Cast: Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey (as Olive Golden), David Hartford, Louise Dunlap     Directed by Edwin S. Porter (of The Great Train Robbery fame), the 1914 version of Tess of the Storm Country is both technically primitive and thematically saccharine. However, this shamelessly [...]