Regeneration (film)

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name = Regeneration


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director = Raoul Walsh
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writer = Owen Frawley Kildare (memoir)
Carl Harbaugh
Raoul Walsh
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starring = John McCann
James A. Marcus
Maggie Weston
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released = 1915
runtime = 72 minutes
country = USA
language = Silent film
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imdb_id = 0005960

"Regeneration" is a 1915 film which tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob, until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change. It stars John McCann, James A. Marcus, Maggie Weston, H. McCoy, Rockliffe Fellowes, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh, and Anna Q. Nilsson.

It was adapted by Carl Harbaugh and Raoul Walsh from a memoir "My Mamie Rose" by Owen Frawley Kildare and the adapted play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett. It was directed by Walsh. In 2000, "Regeneration" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

This is the story of a young buy whose mother has died at an early aged and he is forced to live in poverty and the life of a gangster until he is reformed

Famous quote from the film: “And then the years pass and Owen still lives in a World where might is right – and where the prizes of existence got to the man who is the most daring in defying the law, and the quickest fist in defending his own rights. Owen, at seventeen” – H. McCoy

Stylistically a very advanced film with it's use of crosscutting and advanced plot development.

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*imdb title|id=0005960|title=Regeneration