''Bride of the Storm'' is a 1926 American silent

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directed by

J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first filmmakers to ...

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and starring Tyrone Power, Sr. and Dolores Costello. Sheldon Lewis plays Tyrone Power's son in this picture even though, in real life, Lewis was a year older than Power.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, saved with her mother from the wreck of an American ship off the

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, Faith Fitzhugh is left to the mercy of three villainous keepers of a Dutch lighthouse, grandfather, father, and son. After her mother dies, the now orphan Faith is raised by the lighthouse keepers. Greedy for her wealth, Piet and Jacob, the two elder keepers, plan to marry her off to Hans, the idiot son. Dick Wayne, an officer of the crew of an American ship repairing cable off the lighthouse, who previously had seen the young woman, comes to her rescue just prior to the marriage and saves her after a terrific battle with the trio and a fire and falling of the lighthouse.

Cast

* Dolores Costello as Faith Fitzhugh * John Harron as Dick Wayne *

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as Hans Kroon * Sheldon Lewis as Piet Kroon * Tyrone Power, Sr. as Jacob Kroon * Julia Swayne Gordon as Faith's Mother *Yvonne Pelletier as Faith (age 8) *Ira McFadden as Heine Krutz * Tudor Owen as Funeral Harry *Fred Scott as Spike Mulligan *Donald Stuart as Angus McLain *Walter Tennyson as Ensign Clinton * Larry Steers as Commander, U.S.S. ''Baltimore''

Preservation

With no prints of ''Bride of the Storm'' located in any film archives, it is a

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.''Bride of the Storm'' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: ''Warner Brothers Pictures''

References

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* * 1926 films American silent feature films Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton 1920s historical adventure films Lost American films Warner Bros. films American black-and-white films Films set in the 19th century American historical adventure films 1926 lost films Seafaring films Lost adventure films 1920s American films Silent historical adventure films 1920s English-language films {{adventure-film-stub