The Lighthouse by the Sea

Edwin S. Porter directed this melodrama starring Mabel Trunnelle, one of Edison's top stars of the early 1900s. She's one of two daughters of crusty old lighthouse keeper Charles Sutton, both of whom are in relationships with fishermen who go missing at sea. Porter takes the time to bring out the characters of the two girls with only limited success, and the technology didn't really exist to film the kind of dramatic sea-based finale the director would no doubt have liked to deliver. It's a decent enough effort, though, and much better than the usual output from Edison.