Silent films with English intertitles. Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, H. McCoy. Based on the book My Mamie Rose, by Owen Kildare. Originally released as a motion picture in 1915. "New musical setting composed and performed by Philip Carli"--Container. Followed by the 1910 short film The police force of New York City / Thomas A. Edison.
Summary:
"Still stirring and cinematically impressive early gangster film (and social tract) charting the plight and fate of Owen (Fellowes), a surly, charismatic Irish hood, and how his life is affected by Mamie Rose (Nilsson), a young woman who deserts her upper-class roots for life as "a settlement worker in the gangster's district." This vividly realistic melodrama, which portrays the effect of poverty on the human spirit, was filmed on location in N.Y.C.'s Bowery"--L. Maltin.
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