Product Details

• Actors: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Ronald Goleman, William Powell, Charles Lane
• Directors: Henry King
• Format: NTSC, Black & White, Full Screen
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Grapevine Video
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NWYM0O
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #163,066 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar wins, the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. The scholar's beautiful daughter, Romola, agrees to a loveless marriage with Tito to please her father. One of the few surviving films of Dorothy Gish. SILENT WITH MUSIC.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A rare performance of Romola, July 7, 2008

By	Tracy Marks (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews

Romola is my favorite book by George Eliot - and has not received the attention it deserved - so I was eager to see a screen performance of it when I bought this dvd. I was aware that a 1924 silent movie is unlikely to capture the magic and complexity of a novel or the depth of the characters, and indeed, this is true. The film also omits much of the story in the book, and begins with Savonarola - who only appears later in the novel. But it is still a treat to see such an early interpretation of Romola, and with Lillian Gish. I recommend watching it - and more enthusiastically recommend the novel.

1.0 out of 5 stars Unwatchable print, January 4, 2009

By	M. S. Anderson "copans" (Oak Park, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having seen stills from this movie and being a Lillian Gish (and George Eliot) fan, I was disappointed to find that this DVD-R print is pretty much unwatchable. The titles are pretty much illegible. I'm not sure there is a watchable print available, but I fear the Grapevine print is not it.

(The book I recommend for George Eliot completists. It's attempt to reconstruct Florentine dialect makes you wonder if the patois of "Adam Bede" wasn't a literary contrivance).