In Renaissance Florence, 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. He has a beautiful daughter named Romola.


The Florentine Canvas: A Visual Renaissance Cinema in the mid-1920s was undergoing a radical architectural shift, moving away from the claustrophobic staginess of early shorts toward a grandiosity that sought to rival the great masters of the Renaissance. In Romola (1924), director Henry King does not merely...


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" The Florentine Canvas: A Visual Renaissance Cinema in the mid-1920s was undergoing a radical architectural shift, moving away from the claustrophobic staginess of early shorts toward a grandiosity that sought to rival the great masters of the Renaissance. In Romola (1924), director Henry King does not merely simulate 15th-century Florence; he resurrects it with a tactile, almost suffocating authenticity. Filmed on location in Italy, the production eschews the flimsy lath-and-plaster a..."
George Eliot, Jules Furthman, Don Bartlett, Will M. Ritchey
United States
History, Drama

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