The Eternal City
Released: April 12, 1915Runtime: 80 min
Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.
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Pauline Frederick
as Donna Roma
Thomas Holding
as David Rossi - aka David Leone
Kittens Reichert
as Little Roma
Arthur Oppenheim
as Little David
George Stillwell
as Leone
Della Bella
as Leone's Wife
Frank Losee
as Baron Bonelli
Fuller Mellish
as Pope Pius XI
J Jiquel Lanoe
as Charles Minghelli
George Majeroni
as Dr. Roselli
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