The dumb girl of Portici / Universal Film Manufacturing Company ; director, Lois Weber ; Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, producers ; Lois Weber, screenplay.
Publisher:
Milestone Video,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1916. Based on Daniel Auber's opera La muette de Portici. Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Douglas Gerrard, Betty Schade. Bonus features: The immortal swan (1935, Edward Nakhimoff, director; Victor D'Andre, producer, 48 min), Anna Pavlova dancing (1925, Douglas Fairbanks, producer, 13 min.), Anna Pavlova in newsreels (1920s, 2 min.), Pavlova home movies (1920s, 13 min.)
Summary:
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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