Romola (film)
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Director Henry King Music director Louis F. Gottschalk Duration Country United States | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History Producer Henry King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent
English intertitles Writer George Eliot , Jules Furthman Release date December 6, 1924 (1924-12-06) Cast Lillian Gish (Romola), Dorothy Gish (Tessa), William Powell (Tito Melema), Ronald Colman (Carlo Bucellini), Charles Willis Lane (Baldassar Calvo), Herbert Grimwood (Savonarola)Similar movies Creed , Step Up , Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , How Foolshead Paid His Debts , Paperman , Feast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Romola is a 1924 American drama film directed by Henry King and shot on location in Italy. The film stars Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell and Ronald Colman, and is based on the George Eliot novel of the same name. A copy of the film survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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This was the second film in which Henry King directed Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman for Inspiration Films, an independent production company which chiefly consisted of King, Charles Duell, and stars Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess.
Plot
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.
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