Regeneration

Author

William Fox

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

Silent films with English intertitles and new musical scores.

Performers

[1st work] Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, John McCoy, H. McCoy, James Marcus, Maggie Weston, Carl Harbaugh. [2nd work] Edith Taliaferro, Tom Forman, Raymond Hatton, Florence Dagmar, Al Garcia, Chas. Wells, Mrs. Lewis McCord.

Publication Information

Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2001.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[1st work] Regeneration follows the rise of a child of the slums from impoverished orphan at age ten to successful Bowery hoodlum at twenty-five. On the vice-ridden streets of New York, however, he rediscovers his forgotten innocence through the encouragement of Mamie Rose, the proprietress of a downtown mission, but must resist the influences of his colleagues to whom he is bound by criminal codes of honor. [2nd work] A shopgirl reads a romance serial about a young man masquerading as a duke and decides to use her savings to spend a week pretending to be wealthy.

Notes

[1st work] adapted from Owen Kildare's My Mamie Rose. [2nd work] Based on the play by William C. De Mille.

Release of two silent films produced in 1915.

Followed by Young romance, produced in 1915 by the Feature Play Company.

Contents

• Regeneration (72 min.)
• Young romance (58 min.).