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The White Sister (1923)
Directed by Henry King
Overview
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Length 135 minutes
Actors
Lillian Gish | Ronald Colman | Gail Kane | J. Barney Sherry | Charles Lane | Juliette La Violette | Gustavo Serena | Alfredo Bertone | Roman Ibanez | Alfredo Martinelli | Ida Carloni Talli | Giovanni Viccola | Antonio Barda | Giacomo D'Attino | Michele Gualdi | Giuseppe Pavoni | Francesco Socinus | Sheik Mahomet | James E. Abbe | Duncan Mansfield