Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film)

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Tess of the Storm Country
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Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor
Directed by Alfred Santell
Screenplay by Sonya Levien
S. N. Behrman
Based on Grace Miller White(novel)
Rupert Hughes(play)
Produced by William Fox
Starring Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Cinematography Hal Mohr
Edited byRalph Dietrich (*uncredited)
Music byLouis De Francesco (*uncredited)
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release dates
  • November 19, 1932 (1932-11-19)(New York City)
  • November 20, 1932 (1932-11-20)(U.S.) [1]
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Tess of the Storm Country is a 1932 American pre-Code Fox Film Corporation drama film directed by directed by Alfred Santell and starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Dudley Digges. It is based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White and its adaptation for the stage by Rupert Hughes. [2] [3]

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Gaynor and Farrell appeared in numerous films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929).

The film's copyright was renewed in 1960. [4]

Plot

Cast

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Janet Gaynor

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Andre Sennwald called Tess of the Storm Country "a pleasant resurrection" of the story and wrote that the film is "excellently acted". [5]

See also

References

  1. "Tess of the Storm Country (1932) Release Info". IMDb.
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1932-40 by The American Film Institute, c. 1993
  3. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Tess of the Storm Country
  4. "Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Parts 12-13: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips Jan-Dec 1960: Vol 14 No 1-2". U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1960.
  5. Sennwald, Andre (November 19, 1932). "The Screen: Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery in a Film Version of a Story by Mildred Cram". The New York Times . p. 20.