White Sister, The
Lion's Gate (1923)
silent
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IMDB   7.0
2 hr 23 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Lillian Gish Angela Chiaromonte
Ronald Colman Capt. Govanni Severini
Gail Kane Marchesa de Mola
J. Barney Sherry Monsignor Saracinesca
Charles Lane Prince Chiaromonte
Juliette La Violette Madame Bernard
Gustavo Serena Prof. Ugo Severi
Alfredo Bertone Filmore Durand
Roman Ibanez Count del Ferice
Alfredo Martinelli Alfredo del Ferice
Ida Carloni Talli Mother Superior
Giovanni Viccola Gen. Mazzini
Mary-Louise Parker Nancy Botwin
Elizabeth Perkins Celia Hodes
Kevin Nealon Doug Wilson
Director
Henry King
Burr Steers
Producer Henry King
Jenji Kohan
Writer Francis Marion Crawford
George V. Hobart
Jenji Kohan
Sean Bates

Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits the property herself, throwing Lillian into poverty. Fortunately, she is engaged to marry the dashing officer Ronald Coleman, but he is captured by Arabs on an expedition to Africa. Dedicating her life to his memory, Lillian becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and returning to Italy! The climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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