Bride of the Storm

Bride of the Storm is a 1926 American silent adventure film directed by J. Stuart Blackton at Warner Bros. and starring Tyrone Power Sr. and Dolores Costello.^[2] Sheldon Lewis plays Tyrone Power's son in this picture even though, in real life, Lewis was a year older than Power.^[3][4]

Bride of the Storm
Directed by	J. Stuart Blackton Al Zeidman (2nd unit)
Written by	Marian Constance Blackton (scenario)
Based on	"Maryland, My Maryland" by James Francis Dwyer[1]
Produced by	J. Stuart Blackton (for Vitagraph)
Starring	Dolores Costello Tyrone Power Sr.
Cinematography	William S. Adams Nicholas Musuraca
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	February 20, 1926 (1926-02-20)
Running time	7 reels (2080.56 m)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[5] saved with her mother from the wreck of an American ship off the Dutch East Indies, 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
• Otto Matieson 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,^[6] it is a lost film.^[7]

References

1. "Fine Character Studies In Fantastic Picture". The New York Times. March 28, 1926. p. 5.
2. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Bride of the Storm
3. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
4. Progressive Silent Film List: Bride of the Storm at silentera.com
5. Elliott, Frank (April 3, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: Bride of the Storm", Motion Picture News, 33 (14), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1524, retrieved April 15, 2023 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
6. The Library of Congress Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Bride of the Storm"
7. Bride of the Storm at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Bride of the Storm at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie