Regeneration (1915 film)

Regeneration is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama cowritten and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, which was the first fulllength 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 memoir My Mamie Rose, by Owen Frawley Kildare and the adapted play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett.

The story follows the life of Owen Rockliffe Fellowes, a young Irish American boy who is forced into a life a poverty after his mother dies. As a result, Owen is forced to live on the street eventually turning to a life of crime. Owen is eventually reformed, however, by the benevolent Marie Deering Anna Q. Nilsson. Also featured is a fire aboard an excursion ferry, much like the General Slocum disaster of 1904.Set in New York City, Regeneration was shot on location in New York Citys Lower East Side and used real prostitutes, gangsters and homeless people as extras. It is the first produced by Fox Film Corporation, a forerunner of the 20th Century Fox. ........

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