# The Italian (film)

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Cast and Crew :
| Cast ||
| Role | Actor |
| | George Beban |
| | Clara Williams |
| | Leo Willis |
| Crew ||
| Distributor | Paramount Pictures, Netflix |
| Director | Reginald Barker (d. 1945) |
| Producer | Thomas H. Ince (d. 1924) |
| Screenwriter | Thomas H. Ince |
| Cinematographer | Joseph H. August (d. 1947) |
| Composer | Victor Schertzinger (d. 1941) |
| Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1947, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 76 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States. ||
Paramount Pictures Corporation By Special Arrangement With New York Motion Picture Corp. Kessel & Baumann, Managers Presents George Beban in The Italian in Six Parts
By T. H. Ince & C. G. Sullivan
Produced by Thomas H. Ince
The Italian
Thomas H. Ince and G. Gardner Sullivan
The Italian
In Old Italy Chapter I
FROM the gray, old monastery, flung like a rampart of the faith against the Italian sky, the bells were ringing the Angelus. A deep, sweet silence had shrouded the vineyards, where the peasants stood with bowed heads. Even the shaggy burros seemed to understand as they gazed with calm, patient eyes over the scene they had grown to love; the sunshine, the mountains. Infinite peace and
Trudo Ancello, and his daughter, Annette
Beppo Donnetti, admirer of the pretty Annette
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"
The home of Annette
The merchant Gallia, also a suitor for the hand of Annette
"But, my Gallia, she loves the gondolier, Beppo Donnetti"
Youth, heated by the fires of love and ambition, rushes on to meet the future
While old age, ever shrinking back, stops to warm itself by the dying embers of the past
"The merchant Gallia has again asked for thy hand"
"He is rich. He could at least give thee a home of thine own"
"One year do I give thee, Beppo Donnetti, to win a home for my daughter. Should thou fail, she weds the merchant Gallia"
"Never fear, my loved one, before a year I will send for thee"
A week later
Memories
"That is the Statue of Liberty"
In New York
Big Bill Corrigan, the slums boss, for campaign purposes, treats the gang
Corrigan makes Beppo a proposition to get the Italian vote
"Here's a little present for you. Have your Wop friends vote for this guy"
Vote for John H. Casey for Alderman The workingman's friend
"One year do I give thee, Beppo Donnetti, to win a home for my daughter. Should thou fail, she weds the merchant Gallia"
New York City 11 Aprile 1913
Luce Dell'anima mia;
Qui acluso troverai la monete per il biglietto. Parti subbito col vapore Palermo, con ansio ti aspetto il tuo Beppo.
New York City April 11, 1913
Light of my soul;
Enclosed you will find money for a ticket on the ship, Palermo, which sails soon. I will be waiting for you, so hurry to your Beppo.
Bad news
Annette arrives in the land of promise
At the first class passenger landing
No smoking!
8:45
14 Monday
Beppo forgets the ring
A year later
The dawn of a new life
"Hurry, tell Beppo his son has come"
"Come home, come home quick, it's a boy"
The wonderful discovery
"Santa Maria! He is sleep just-a-like-a-me, his hand stuck under his-a-chin"
"The heat and impure food are wearing him out. You must buy him only pasteurized milk"
The days pass and the heat wave reaches its crest
"Your wife say Little Tony must have more pasteurized milk right away"
"I must get-a-de-milk or my babee is die"
Knowing Corrigan to be the boss of the slums, whose word is law, Beppo appeals to him for mercy
The reason she never knew
16
A week later
At the expiration of his sentence
"Beppo, our poor little Antonio, he's——he's——"
A month later
The World.
Corrigan's Child Near Death!
Wealty Politician Expects Crisis Today.
Dr. Briggs, the World's Famous Specialist, Is Today Directing the Fight to Save the Infant Son of William H. Corrigan, the Well Known Political Boss. To Preserve Extreme Quiet, the Streets In the Immediate Vicinity of the Home, Are Roped Off. The Child Contracted Brain Fever
Corrigan, through political influence, has the street roped off around his home to prevent the slightest noise
Disguised as a peddler, Beppo seeks his revenge in the home of Corrigan
"Another hour of absolute quiet and I can pull her through. The slightest disturbance, however, will be fatal"
The gesture that was Little Tony's
At the eternal bedside of his baby where hate, revenge and bitterness melt to nothing in the crucible of sorrow
Antonio Donneti Died Aug. 27, 1914
The Italian
with the precious flowers in his worn, grimy hands, Beppo, again knelt by the grave of his baby son. "Pretty flowers for you, my bambino, my bambino, my......". His voice broke abruptly into a sob; a deep racking sob of a man crushed beyond his strength to endure as he threw himself across his baby's grave.
The End
The Italian
Official stamp
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1965, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 58 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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