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Rockliffe Fellows (center).
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Regeneration
AKA {The Regeneration}
(1915) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by R.A. Walsh (Raoul Walsh)
Cast: Rockliffe Fellows [Owen Conway], Anna Q. Nilsson [Marie Deering], William Sheer [Skinny], Carl Harbaugh [district attorney Ames], James Marcus [Jim Conway], Maggie Weston [Maggie Conway], John McCann [Owen Conway, age ten], H. McCoy [Owen Conway, age 17], Peggy Barn
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by R.A. Walsh (Raoul Walsh) and Carl Harbaugh, from the book My Mamie Rose: The Story of My Regeneration by Owen Kildare and the play adaptation of the book The Regeneration by Owen Kildare and Walter Hackett. Cinematography by Georges Benoit. Presented by William Fox. / © 20 September 1915 by William Fox [LP6444]. Released 13 September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in Lower East Side, New York, New York, with real gangsters, hookers and bums as extras. The film was rereleased in the USA by Fox Film Corporation on 12 January 1919.
Drama: Social.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3677.
Survival Status: Prints exist in the Museum of Modern Art film archive, and in the Film Preservation Associates film collection.
Keywords: Crime: Murder - Criminals: Gangs, Gangsters - Death: Murder - Fire: Fires - Hunchbacks - Irish - Police: Policemen - Reformers - Religion: Priests - USA: New York: New York
Listing updated: 25 June 2008.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.3677; Brownlow-Behind p. xxiii; Shipman-Cinema p. 56.
Home Video: DVD.
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