The White Sister

The White Sister

Released on
Drama, Romance
Runtime
135 mins
(11 votes)

Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Cast

  • Lillian Gish
  • Ronald Colman
  • Gail Kane
  • J. Barney Sherry
  • Charles Lane
  • Juliette La Violette
  • Gustavo Serena
  • Alfredo Bertone
  • Roman Ibanez
  • Alfredo Martinelli
  • Ida Carloni Talli
  • Giovanni Viccola
  • Antonio Barda
  • Giacomo D'Attino
  • Michele Gualdi
  • Giuseppe Pavoni
  • Francesco Socinus
  • Sheik Mahomet
  • James E. Abbe
  • Duncan Mansfield

Director

  • Henry King

Producers

  • Henry King

Screenwriter

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