Pioneering director Lois Weber co-directed this grandly elaborate costumer adapted from the Auber/Scribe opera "Masaniello," starring prima ballerina Anna Pavlova as the mute young woman of 17th-century Naples whose seduction and abandonment by a Spanish noble (Douglas Gerrard) drove her fisherman brother (Rupert Julian) to spearhead a bloody people’s revolt. Jack Holt, Jack Hoxie, Edna Maison also star. 115 min. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score.
Pioneering director Lois Weber co-directed this grandly elaborate costumer adapted from the Auber/Scribe opera "Masaniello," starring prima ballerina Anna Pavlova as the mute young woman of 17th-century Naples whose seduction and abandonment by a Spanish noble (Douglas Gerrard) drove her fisherman brother (Rupert Julian) to spearhead a bloody people’s revolt. Jack Holt, Jack Hoxie, Edna Maison also star. 115 min. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score.
