An Italian Romance (1912)
Marianina is a daughter of sunny Italy, living with her old father, a shoemaker in the Italian colony. We see the old shoemaker pegging away at his shoes down in the cellar basement. A letter comes to Marianina from her lover in Italy, pleading to be sent for and protesting to her his undying devotion. She gets the money from her father and sends for her lover. In the meantime Giussepi, a foreman in a sweatshop, falls in love with the girl and desires to marry her; but while she appreciates his devotion, she is loyal to her sweetheart, Gambolio, in the far-away southern clime. Gambolio arrives in America, but when six months have scarcely gone by he proves himself a perfidious wretch to the girl who has been so loyal to him, flirting shamelessly with other signorinas. Mariana discovers this and vents her righteous wrath upon him. Then she casts him from her as she would a viper, and accepts the better man, the foreman Giussepi. A year later, Gambolio shows himself to be the scoundrel that he is. He tries to renew for himself the infatuation Marianina once felt for him. But she is a true wife and a noble woman and scornfully repulses the fellow's advances. The scoundrel foiled, swears vengeance on her devoted head. He steals her photograph and later boasts a conquest of the woman in the teeth of her husband. The lie is given the wretch with a dash of wine in the face, an immediate duello is here prevented by friends of both parties, but is later arranged for. At Giuseppi's home his faithful wife is made to suffer the agony of wrongful accusation on the part of her husband, but overhearing the arrangements, she decides a plan to prove her love for Giuseppi. Drugging his wine, she dresses in his clothes and betakes herself to the field of honor, and there she fights a fierce battle with her traducer. The latter is wounded dangerously, just as Giuseppi, who has recovered from the stupor, rushes on the field, and realizing everything in its true light, hugs Marianina to his breast.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
