Regeneration (1915)

Directors

Raoul Walsh

Cast

Rockliffe Fellowes, James A. Marcus, Anna Q. Nilsson, Maggie Weston, William Sheer

The story

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. The film is a "candid adaptation" of the autobiography of Owen Frawley Kildare, called the Kipling of the Bowery. The story follows the life of Owen, a young Irish American boy who is forced into a life of poverty after his mother dies.

Genres

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