Tess of the Storm Country (1922)

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom Many of the men in the squatters village have their eyes on young Tess and one of them Ben Letts frames Tesss father for murder While maintaining her fathers innocence Tess must keep her love for Graves son a secret while caring for Elias daughters illegitamate child