In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Henry King
Will M. Ritchey
Lillian Gish
Romola
Dorothy Gish
Tessa
William Powell
Tito Melema
Ronald Colman
Carlo Bucellini
Charles Lane
Baldassar Calvo
Herbert Grimwood
Savonarola
Bonaventura Ibáñez
Bardo Bardi
Frank Puglia
Adolfo Spini
Amelia Summerville
Brigida
Tina Ceccaci Renaldi
Monna Ghita
Eduilio Mucci
Nello
Angela Scatigna
Bratti
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It's actually quite hard to get excited about this rather dreary adaptation of George Eliot's quite gripping story of love and survival during the turbulent events in late 15th century Florence. As was common at the time of her writing this story (1862), she used language to expertly craft and deliv...
Henry King, Romola (1924)
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Inspiration Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer