Regeneration
Regeneration (alternately called The Regeneration) is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, which was the first full-length feature film directed by Walsh, stars Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson and was adapted for the screen by Carl Harbaugh and Walsh from the 1903 memoir My Mamie Rose, by Owen Frawley Kildare and the adapted 1908 play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett.
Plot
Cited as one of the first full-length gangster films, Regeneration tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change.
More details
author | Raoul Walsh |
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contentLocation | New York City |
director | Raoul Walsh |
genre | crime drama |
keywords | bowery district attorney force gangster film general slocum disaster life of crime owen frawley kildare reform social worker turn |
producer | William Fox |
publisher | Fox Film |
recordedAt | New York City |
theme | biographical drama gangster romantic drama |