THE ITALIAN
(1915)
Directed by Reginald Barker
Story by Thomas H. Ince
and C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast:
George Beban (Beppo Donnetti)
J. Frank Burke (Trudo Ancello)
Fanny Midgley - Leo Willis
Clara Williams (Annette Ancello)
Produced by Thomas H. Ince An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy
to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.
He finally earns the money to be reunited with his love and they marry.
But life in New York is hard and tragedy strikes with the death of
his infant son after he is wrongfully jailed and unable to provide.
An astonishingly accomplished film for its time. Stunningly shot,
with lighting effects that are truly sublime, this is an early gem
that clearly reveals Reginald Barker to be a pioneer director of equal
standing to D. W. Griffith and Maurice Tourneur.
72 minutes.
Included short "THE EGYPTIAN MUMMY" (1915) Billy Quirk - - 12 minutes