Title Regeneration / William Fox presents R.A. Walsh's drama ; direction by R.A. Walsh ; produced for video by David Shepard

Published Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (72 min.) Summary "The first full-length gangster picture ever made," according to its director, Raoul Walsh, who would later make The Roaring Twenties, High Sierra, The Bowery, and White Heat, Regeneration is a powerful slum melodrama produced in 1915 on location on the Lower East Side of New York City, with a gaggle of authentic lowlife types performing alongside professional actors. It's in the tradition of The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith from whom Walsh learned his craft as an assistant on The Birth of a Nation. But in camera and editing technique as well as in performance, the former apprentice equals and often surpasses the master. Regeneration was added to the Library of Congress National Registry of essential American films in 2000. The gangsters in Regeneration aren't Mafiosi; they are two-bit street corner hoodlums trapped by their circumstances. Regeneration approaches them sympathetically yet unblinkingly, bringing to mind Jack Warner's comment that Raoul Walsh's idea of a tender scene is when he burns down the whorehouse. The tough-as-nails orphan bred on unforgiving slum streets to become a hoodlum hero eventually finds the straight path from Mamie Rose, a settlement house worker, but the melodrama doesn't compromise the characters or the visual authenticity of this amazing first feature Notes Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2017) Cast Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, John McCoy, H. McCoy, James Marcus, Maggie Weston, Carl Harbaugh Notes In English Won 2000 National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry Subject Orphans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama Gangsters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama Gangs -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama Street children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama Gangs. Gangsters. Orphans. Street children. New York (State) -- New York. Genre/Form Drama. Feature films. Gangster films. Silent films. Silent films. Feature films. Gangster films. Films muets. Films de gangsters. Form Streaming video Author Walsh, Raoul, 1887-1980, director. Fox, William, 1879-1952, producer. Shepard, David, producer Flicker Alley (Firm), distributor.

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