Best Films – 1915
In The Italian, George Beban plays an Italian immigrant whose dreams of riches in America quickly turn into a never-ending nightmare of poverty and despair.
FILM
The Italian
d: Reginald Barker; scr: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan
Little Pal
d: James Kirkwood; scr: Marshall Neilan
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Carmen
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: William C. de Mille
ACTOR
George Beban
The Italian
Theda Bara in A Fool There Was
ACTRESS
Theda Bara
A Fool There Was
Geraldine Farrar
Carmen
Lillian Gish
Enoch Arden
Mary Pickford
Little Pal
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Clara Williams
The Italian
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by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009
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Best Films – 1914
Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria is considered a landmark in motion picture history, inspiring the scope of D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
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Cabiria
d: Giovanni Pastrone; scr: Giovanni Pastrone, Gabriele D’Annunzio
The Wrath of the Gods
d: Reginald Barker; scr: William H. Clifford, Thomas H. Ince, C. Gardner Sullivan
Harold Lockwood, Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country
ACTRESS
Mary Pickford
Tess of the Storm Country
SHORT FILM
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
d: D.W. Griffith
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1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965
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THE ITALIAN d: Reginald Barker
The Italian (1915)
Direction: Reginald Barker
Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke
George Beban (right) was a renowned stage and vaudeville star. Even though he never became a major film name, Beban appeared in nearly 20 films from the mid-1910s to the mid-1920s, almost invariably in the role of an Italian. His first feature film, in fact, was quite succinctly called The Italian.
Directed by the respected Reginald Barker (among whose credits is the 1916 William S. Hart vehicle The Aryan), The Italian depicts the plight of an Italian immigrant who arrives in the Land of Plenty only to find poverty, heartbreak, and death (no, not his own).
A not uncommon theme for the [...]
by Andre Soares | March 22, 2009
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Tags: C. Gardner Sullivan, Clara Williams, Classic Movies, Film Reviews, George Beban, Immigration, Reginald Barker, Silent Films, Socially Conscious Movies, The Italian, Thomas H. Ince
