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Italian
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Italian 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 Bill Corrigan, Beppo is not wealthy, but self-sufficient enough for Annette to join him in New York. Soon the couple 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 faII ilI. Beppo desperateIy needs medicine for the child. He asks Corrigan for the money but is rebuked. Without the Iife-saving medicine, the baby dies in his crib. Insane with grief, Beppo vows to take the Iife 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 wouId have wanted...
A startIing historical artifact just as shocking today as it was in 1915, The ItaIian is wideIy recognized as one of the masterpieces of early siIent cinema. Its innovative uses of Iighting, cIose-ups, editing, and multidirectional camera positions were revolutionary for the era. Though credited to producer Thomas H. lnce, The ltaIian was actualIy directed by pioneering fiImmaker Reginald Barker, who went simiIarIy uncredited on lnce's Civilization (1916). Star George Beban (1873-1928) was at the time a well-known stage and vaudeville actor, acclaimed for his portrayaI of an ItaIian immigrant in the pIay The Sign of the Rose (Beban was actuaIly of Croatian/Irish heritage.) He was also a proIific actor in the early days of motion pictures, though many of his fiIms are now seemingly 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, CaIifornia. |
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