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06/12/1924 Drama, History 1h 46m
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Overview

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.

  1. Will M. Ritchey

    Writer

  2. Henry King

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Lillian Gish

    Romola

  2. Dorothy Gish

    Tessa

  3. William Powell

    Tito Melema

  4. Ronald Colman

    Carlo Bucellini

  5. Charles Lane

    Baldassar Calvo

  6. Herbert Grimwood

    Savonarola

  7. Bonaventura Ibáñez

    Bardo Bardi

  8. Frank Puglia

    Adolfo Spini

  9. Amelia Summerville

    Brigida

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-06
It's actually quite hard to get excited about this rather dreary adaptation of George Eliot's quite gripping story of love and survival during the turbulent events in late 15th century Florence. As was common at the time of her writing this story (1862), she used language to expertly craft and deliver a tapestry of interwoven themes and characterisations that created a rich, multi-layered series of themes. Well, sadly for this, much of these have been thrown under the bus, and we are left with the two Gish sisters in a melodramatic tale of deception and intrigue all right, but not amongst the ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$497,234.00

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