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Romola (1924)
Directed by Henry King
Drama, History · 1h 46m
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Cast
Lillian Gish
Romola
Dorothy Gish
Tessa
William Powell
Tito Melema
Ronald Colman
Carlo Bucellini
Charles Lane
Baldassar Calvo
H
Herbert Grimwood
Savonarola
B
Bonaventura Ibáñez
Bardo Bardi
Frank Puglia
Adolfo Spini
Amelia Summerville
Brigida
T
Tina Ceccaci Renaldi
Monna Ghita
E
Eduilio Mucci
Nello
A
Angela Scatigna
Bratti
Crew
- Director
- Henry King
- Writer
- Will M. Ritchey
- Novel
- George Eliot
- Director of Photography
- Roy F. Overbaugh, William Schurr
- Original Music Composer
- Louis F. Gottschalk
- Editor
- Duncan Mansfield
Details
- Release date
- 1924-12-06
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Inspiration Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Box office
- $497,234