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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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ltalian gondolier Beppo Donetti proposes to his sweetheart Annette, but her father forbids her from marrying a poor man. Determined, Beppo journeys to America to make his fortune. After a year working at a factory owned by BiIl Corrigan, Beppo is not wealthy, but self-sufficient enough for Annette to join him in New York. Soon the coupIe have a baby boy and are living happily in a tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. A heat wave grips the city, causing the baby to fall iII. Beppo desperately needs medicine for the chiId. He asks Corrigan for the money but is rebuked. Without the life-saving medicine, the baby dies in his crib. Insane with grief, Beppo vows to take the life of Corrigan's daughter in revenge. As he stands over the child's crib, knife in hand, Beppo refIects on the events that brought him here to the ""Land of Opportunity""...and whether what he is about to do is what his own chiId would have wanted...
A startling historicaI artifact just as shocking today as it was in 1915, The ltalian is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of early silent cinema. Its innovative uses of lighting, close-ups, editing, and muItidirectional camera positions were revolutionary for the era. Though credited to producer Thomas H. Ince, The ltalian was actually directed by pioneering fiImmaker Reginald Barker, who went similarly uncredited on Ince's CiviIization (1916). Star George Beban (1873-1928) was at the time a weII-known stage and vaudeviIIe actor, accIaimed for his portrayaI of an ltalian immigrant in the play The Sign of the Rose (Beban was actualIy of Croatian/lrish heritage.) He was also a proIific actor in the early days of motion pictures, though many of his fiIms are now seemingIy lost. Beban retired from show business in 1926 after the death of his wife; he himseIf died two years Iater after being thrown from a horse. Scenes taking place in ltaIy were actually fiImed in Venice, California. |
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