Best Films – 1914

Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria is considered a landmark in motion picture history, inspiring the scope of D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
 
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Cabiria
d: Giovanni Pastrone; scr: Giovanni Pastrone, Gabriele D’Annunzio
The Wrath of the Gods
d: Reginald Barker; scr: William H. Clifford, Thomas H. Ince, C. Gardner Sullivan
 

Harold Lockwood, Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country
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Mary Pickford
Tess of the Storm Country
 
SHORT FILM
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
d: D.W. Griffith
 
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by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009   
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TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY – Mary Pickford

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 manipulative melodrama about a bratty waif who manages to save her father from prison and to marry a rich, good-looking guy boasts a solid comic performance by Mary Pickford, at the time probably the most popular film performer in the world. Pickford is so good, in fact, that she succeeds in making the maudlin material at worst bearable [...]

by Andre Soares | March 22, 2009   
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