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September 30, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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UK Box office data:
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UK box office information. Weekend chart, top grossing films, yearly data, opening weekends and adjusted for inflation figures. Cinema data for the United Kingdom. #boxoffice #uk #weekend #film #topgrossing #british
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June 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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What dominated global charts in June?

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July 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Who Ruled Mobile in May.

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June 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I watched the film on YouTube but it's not a great print and there's a totally inappropriate orchestral soundtrack. Perhaps the Mary Pickford Foundation, which is restoring her catalogue, hasn’t got around to this particular hit yet. youtube.com/watch?v=2LJT...

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TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY (1914) -- Mary Pickford, dir. by Edwin S. Porter
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY (1914) Starring: Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive CraeyDirected by Edwin S. PorterFamous PlayersWilliam Thomas Sherman, wts@g...
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August 29, 2023 at 9:18 AM
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The reviews are also on Letterboxd, in case that's your thing letterboxd.com/bowbrick/

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August 29, 2023 at 9:17 AM
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I'm three films into this project, which I thought might be a good way to learn a bit about the sweep of Hollywood history without going to the trouble of making my own list. The reviews are all here: bowblog.com/tag/top-gros...

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Colourful poster for 1913 movie melodrama Traffic in Souls. A villainous man wields a whip, a group of young women cowers
August 29, 2023 at 9:15 AM
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The film was a massive hit, yielding many times its $10,000 budget. Pickford told a biographer it was "the beginning of my career." It was also one of the first to be made in the emerging complex of facilities in Hollywood and the beaches are all Californian.

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The boardwalk in the small resort of Santa Monica, California in 1914. Holidaymakers stroll along the front
August 29, 2023 at 9:13 AM
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It's not just the story that's awkward. In one scene Pickford sics a dog on one of her gentleman harassers. She sends the dog off out of the left-side of the frame and, bewilderingly, it arrives at its victim's location also out of the left-side of the frame!

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Two stills from Tess of the Storm Country in which Mary Pickford despatches a dog to attack a pursuer
August 29, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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In this film, the rich are depicted as brutes, thieves, exploiters of the vulnerable. As in other movies of the period our principle villain, the head of the wealthy family at the top of cliffs, actually wields a whip.

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Tessibel Skinner ,played by Mary Pickford, is whipped by brutal capitalist Elias Graves, played by William Walters, in a room in Graves' mansion.
August 29, 2023 at 9:11 AM
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In movies of this period the wealthy could still be depicted as unproblematically wicked. These are not the 'complicated' villains of later eras, not the conflicted plutocrats or tormented mobsters of post-depression or neoliberal America.

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TV mobster Tony Soprano smokes a cigar in his swimming pool. He looks menacingly at the camera
August 29, 2023 at 9:09 AM
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The story is flat too, based on a best-selling romance by Grace Miller White. Pickford objected to the crudity of this standard-issue morality tale. It has all the staples of the era's melodramas: dignity in poverty, illigitemacy, hypocricy in authority…

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The front cover of Tess of the Storm Country, a book by Grace Miller White. It shows a close-up of a woman's face above a scene on a beach with a couple against the dunes
August 29, 2023 at 9:08 AM
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The Great Train Robbery was the absolute state of the art when it came out. But that was over ten years earlier. Porter is stuck in a rut and the haphazard, static, flat scene-making we see here was already very out-of-date.

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A group of squatters arrayed as for a family photo, in front of their shanty, in 1914 film Tess of the Storm Country. At the centre, Mary Pickford
August 29, 2023 at 9:06 AM
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Tess of the Storm Country was directed by Edwin S Porter, a veteran who'd made his name with the extraordinary The Great Train Robbery. Pickford, who by this time was already essentially co-directing the films she was in, was unhappy with his old-fashioned ways.

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Famous close-up from 1903 film The Great Train Robbery in which a cowboy character points a gun and apparently fires directly at the audience, a scene that terrified naive cinema-goers at the time
August 29, 2023 at 9:04 AM
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In the exalted upper section of the narrative swooning ladies and some callow students are also present. The intermixing of the upper and lower realms becomes a critical plot point.

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A young woman in white talks to a young man in a dark suit outside big house. She seems sad, he is hesitant, holding his hat nervously
August 29, 2023 at 9:01 AM
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Doing the actual menacing, down there in the lower realm close to the sea, are various thugs in heavy suits - they are gamekeepers - circulating authentically, armed and dangerous, on the beach and in the squatters' camp.

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Two hefty gamekeepers holding a gun menace a fisherman they've detained on a rocky beach
August 29, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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Joking obvs. The big house is a really a classic bourgeois pile - columned entrance and carriage drive - indicating prosperity and respectability (surely demolished and replaced a dozen times since). It menacingly overlooks the strand where the fisherfolk's makeshift camp cowers.

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A laughing young woman exits a grand home and a young man helps her into a carriage
August 29, 2023 at 8:41 AM
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Tess of the Storm Country was shot in Santa Monica and Del Mar, then tiny coastal settlements near LA, so the big house could literally be the one that Robert De Niro seemed so unattached to in Heat.

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Robert De Niro, in silhouette, looks out of over the ocean from his modernist apartment in Michael Mann's film Heat
August 29, 2023 at 8:38 AM
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These men are either utterly unconvincing landless fishermen or slightly-more-convincing heartless landowners. The miserable, small-town capitalists involved live in a big house above the beach and resent the presence of the squatters below.

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View from above of the ramshackle squatters' settlement in 1914 film Tess of the Storm Country
August 29, 2023 at 8:34 AM
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She owns the whole thing really. She's surrounded in this moderately cheesy melodrama by many big slabs of men, implausible blocks of motion picture timber - all tragically rendered exactly identical (apart from their hats) by Pickford's brilliance.

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Three male characters from 1914 film Tess of the Storm Country, including, at right, the film's villain, a miserable capitalist called Deacon Elias Graves, who is joyfully reading the text of a law he's just had passed that will make life harder for the landless squatters on his beach-front land
August 29, 2023 at 8:32 AM
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When I got to 1914 I learnt that the top movie had been lost, so I watched the number 2 movie, a Mary Pickford melodrama. You'll like Tess of the Storm Country, but only because of absolutely magnetic Pickford - in feisty waif mode, right at the centre of it…

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Black and white photo of actor Mary Pickford, sad and barefoot, sitting on the floor of her shanty home in the 1914 film Tess of the Storm Country
August 29, 2023 at 8:30 AM
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Stupid project for the Autumn. I'm watching the highest-grossing film from every year since 1913. I'm up to 1914. I'm reviewing them on my blog (btw, the top-grossing film in the year I began blogging was Saving Private Ryan)

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Close-up of Tom Hanks, head on one side, weary expression, wearing military uniform and helmet
August 29, 2023 at 8:26 AM