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''The Italian'' is startlingly sophisticated for a film made in 1915. It has a place in the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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''The Italian'' is startlingly sophisticated for a film made in 1915. It 1915, to the point where many viewers regard it as superior to ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915''--and not just because the latter film is [[ValuesDissonance blatantly racist]]. Like ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'', ''The Italian'' has a place in the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The film was made in 1915, but it takes place in 1913, as shown in a letter Beppo sends to Annette.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The film was made in 1915, but it takes place in 1913, between 1912 and 1914, as shown in a letter Beppo sends to Annette.Annette (dated April 11, 1913).
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*BrokenPedestal: Beppo loses respect for Corrigan when the latter doesn't lift a finger to help his son Tony pull through his illness.
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*TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The film was made in 1915, but it takes place in 1913, as shown in a letter Beppo sends to Annette.
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Beppo is a gondolier in Venice. He is in love with Annette, but her father won't let them get married until Beppo makes enough money to support her. Beppo sails to America, where he sets up a shoeshine stand while getting a side job turning out the Italian vote for Corrigan, an Irish political boss. Eventually, he sends for Annette to join him. They get married and have a baby they name Tony, but their happiness is disrupted when Tony catches a fever during a New York heat wave.
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Beppo is a gondolier in Venice. He is in love with Annette, but her father won't let them get married until Beppo makes enough money to support her. Beppo sails to America, where he sets up a shoeshine stand while getting a side job turning out the Italian vote for Corrigan, an Irish political boss. Eventually, he sends for Annette to join him. They get married and have a baby they name Tony, but their happiness is disrupted interrupted when Tony catches comes down a fever during a New York heat wave.
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* AnImmigrantsTale: Italians living hardscrabble existences in the slums of New York City.
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* AnImmigrantsTale: Italians living Italian immigrant Beppo lives a hardscrabble existences existence in the slums of New York City.City's Lower East Side.
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* DownerEnding: Weeping at the grave of your dead baby? Yep, that's a downer.
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* DownerEnding: Weeping at the grave of your dead baby? Yep, that's a downer.doesn't get any sadder than that.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Or worse than useless. No cops are insight when Beppo is mugged and robbed of the money he needs for Tony's milk. But when he sees the muggers and attacks them, he's arrested.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Or worse than useless. No cops are insight in sight when Beppo is mugged and robbed of the money he needs for Tony's milk. But when he sees the muggers and attacks them, he's arrested.
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* DeathOfAChild: Little Tony dies from the heat and a lack of access to pasteurized milk.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted, as little Tony dies from the heat and a lack of access to pasteurized milk.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A month after the unfortunate death of his baby son Tony, Beppo hears about how Corrigan (one of the men who refused to help Beppo out with his sick baby) had a baby daughter who was seriously ill. Beppo has a chance to avenge his late son by killing Corrigan's daughter. If he ''did'' kill the son, nobody would know he did it because they'd all assume the fatal illness killed him. Beppo almost succeeds in doing so, but when he sees the daughter making the same finger his son used to do, he gets memories of Tony and cannot bring himself to do the dirty act.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A month after the unfortunate death of his baby son Tony, Beppo hears about how Corrigan (one of the men who refused to help Beppo out with his sick baby) had a baby daughter who was seriously ill. Beppo has a chance to avenge his late son by killing Corrigan's daughter. If he ''did'' kill the son, daughter, nobody would know he did it because they'd all assume the fatal illness killed him.her. Beppo almost succeeds in doing so, but when he sees the daughter making the same finger his son used to do, he gets memories of Tony and cannot bring himself to do the dirty act.
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''The Italian'' is a 1915 film directed by Reginald Barker. Beppo is a gondolier in Venice. He is in love with Annette, but her father won't let them get married until Beppo makes enough money to support her. Beppo sails to America, where he sets up a shoeshine stand while getting a side job turning out the Italian vote for Corrigan, an Irish political boss. Eventually, he sends for Annette to join him. They get married and have a baby they name Tony, but their happiness is disrupted when Tony catches a fever during a New York heat wave.
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''The Italian'' is a 1915 film directed by Reginald Barker.
Beppo is a gondolier in Venice. He is in love with Annette, but her father won't let them get married until Beppo makes enough money to support her. Beppo sails to America, where he sets up a shoeshine stand while getting a side job turning out the Italian vote for Corrigan, an Irish political boss. Eventually, he sends for Annette to join him. They get married and have a baby they name Tony, but their happiness is disrupted when Tony catches a fever during a New York heat wave.
Beppo is a gondolier in Venice. He is in love with Annette, but her father won't let them get married until Beppo makes enough money to support her. Beppo sails to America, where he sets up a shoeshine stand while getting a side job turning out the Italian vote for Corrigan, an Irish political boss. Eventually, he sends for Annette to join him. They get married and have a baby they name Tony, but their happiness is disrupted when Tony catches a fever during a New York heat wave.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: A month after the unfortunate death of his baby son Tony, Beppo hears about how Corrigan (one of the men who refused to help Beppo out with his sick baby) had a baby daughter who was seriously ill. Beppo has a chance to avenge his late son by killing Corrigan's daughter. If he ''did'' kill the son, nobody would know he did it because they'd all assume the fatal illness killed him. Beppo almost succeeds in doing so, but when he sees the daughter making the same finger his son used to do, he gets memories of Tony and cannot bring himself to do the dirty act.
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Wedding Day is no longer a trope per TRS
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* WeddingDay: Beppo and Annette get married, alcohol is drank, and Beppo has to make a panicked dash to the jeweler's after realizing he forgot the ring.
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Not to be confused with the GothicHorror [[Literature/TheItalian novel by Ann Radcliffe]].
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* FramingDevice: A seemingly pointless one in which lead actor George Beban, apparently playing himself, is shown at his home reading a novel called ''The Italian''.
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* FramingDevice: A seemingly pointless one in which lead actor George Beban, apparently playing himself, is shown at his home reading a novel called ''The Italian''. Then the story, with Beban playing the lead character, takes place. Then the film ends with Beban-as-Beban finishing the book.
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''The Italian'' is a 1915 film directed by Reginald Barker. Beppo is a gondolier in Venice. He is in love with Annette, but her father won't let them get married until Beppo makes enough money to support her. Beppo sails to America, where he sets up a shoeshine stand while getting a side job turning out the Italian vote for Corrigan, an Irish political boss. Eventually, he sends for Annette to join him. They get married and have a baby they name Tony, but their happiness is disrupted when Tony catches a fever during a New York heat wave.
''The Italian'' is startlingly sophisticated for a film made in 1915. It has a place in the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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* AnImmigrantsTale: Italians living hardscrabble existences in the slums of New York City.
* BrainFever: This non-specific condition is what's wrong with Corrigan's daughter, per the newspaper.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Two young lovers are kissing in Beppo's gondola. He gets distracted watching them and crashes the gondola, thus pitching himself into the canal.
* DownerEnding: Weeping at the grave of your dead baby? Yep, that's a downer.
* FramingDevice: A seemingly pointless one in which lead actor George Beban, apparently playing himself, is shown at his home reading a novel called ''The Italian''.
* FunetikAksent: Beppo's Italian accent is rather awkwardly rendered via title cards.
--> "I must get-a-de-milk or my babee is die."
* InfantImmortality: Averted, as little Tony dies from the heat and a lack of access to pasteurized milk.
* PoliceAreUseless: Or worse than useless. No cops are insight when Beppo is mugged and robbed of the money he needs for Tony's milk. But when he sees the muggers and attacks them, he's arrested.
* RedHerring: An older merchant in the town also wants Annette's hand. It seems like a setup for ArrangedMarriage or StarCrossedLovers or some other complication to Beppo and Annette's romance. In fact, the merchant is irrelevant to the plot, as Beppo and Annette get married.
* RevengeByProxy: After Corrigan refuses to help Beppo and Beppo's son dies as a result, Beppo sets out to kill Corrigan's little daughter.
* WeddingDay: Beppo and Annette get married, alcohol is drank, and Beppo has to make a panicked dash to the jeweler's after realizing he forgot the ring.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: A huge newspaper headline and article proclaims that Corrigan's daughter is ill.
''The Italian'' is startlingly sophisticated for a film made in 1915. It has a place in the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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* AnImmigrantsTale: Italians living hardscrabble existences in the slums of New York City.
* BrainFever: This non-specific condition is what's wrong with Corrigan's daughter, per the newspaper.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Two young lovers are kissing in Beppo's gondola. He gets distracted watching them and crashes the gondola, thus pitching himself into the canal.
* DownerEnding: Weeping at the grave of your dead baby? Yep, that's a downer.
* FramingDevice: A seemingly pointless one in which lead actor George Beban, apparently playing himself, is shown at his home reading a novel called ''The Italian''.
* FunetikAksent: Beppo's Italian accent is rather awkwardly rendered via title cards.
--> "I must get-a-de-milk or my babee is die."
* InfantImmortality: Averted, as little Tony dies from the heat and a lack of access to pasteurized milk.
* PoliceAreUseless: Or worse than useless. No cops are insight when Beppo is mugged and robbed of the money he needs for Tony's milk. But when he sees the muggers and attacks them, he's arrested.
* RedHerring: An older merchant in the town also wants Annette's hand. It seems like a setup for ArrangedMarriage or StarCrossedLovers or some other complication to Beppo and Annette's romance. In fact, the merchant is irrelevant to the plot, as Beppo and Annette get married.
* RevengeByProxy: After Corrigan refuses to help Beppo and Beppo's son dies as a result, Beppo sets out to kill Corrigan's little daughter.
* WeddingDay: Beppo and Annette get married, alcohol is drank, and Beppo has to make a panicked dash to the jeweler's after realizing he forgot the ring.
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: A huge newspaper headline and article proclaims that Corrigan's daughter is ill.
