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January 1915 (USA)
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PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION By Special Arrangement with the New York Motion Picture Company Presents GEORGE BEBAN in "THE ITALIAN" ( original poster)
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An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York...
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Immigrant misery.
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(Complete credited cast)| George Beban | ... | Beppo Donnetti | |
| Clara Williams | ... | Annette Ancello Donnetti | |
| J. Frank Burke | ... | Trudo Ancello - Annette's Father | |
| Leo Willis | ... | Corrigan - NYC Ward Boss | |
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| Fanny Midgley | |||
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78 min
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1991.
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Referenced in The Godfather (1972)
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This short American silent feature is a knockout. Made in 1915, it was lost for several decades. It is the story of an Italian immigrant and his wife who see in the United States a land of opportunity and happiness. Everything, instead, works against them. The film makes a very strong impression and has credible performances. The location shooting in the ghettos of the time give it a distinctly neo-realist feeling. It is said that Francis Ford Coppola watched it closely before shooting the Little Italy sequences of "The Godfather, Part II"