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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1007

His Regeneration

191515 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 14:45
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Broncho Billy Anderson · Public domain

Synopsis

A criminal becomes involved in an argument over a woman at a dance hall. The encounter provides the starting point for a short underworld drama directed by Gilbert M. Anderson, who also takes a leading role alongside Marguerite Clayton.

Cast

Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson

Marguerite Clayton

Lee Willard

Hazel Applegate

Belle Mitchell

Lloyd Bacon

DirectorsBroncho Billy Anderson

Historical context

Although Charlie Chaplin appears briefly as a customer, this is an Essanay drama led by Anderson rather than a starring Chaplin comedy. The surviving film was restored using an Academy-held nitrate print and reconstructed Essanay intertitles.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Marguerite Clayton — Unknown photographer; Motion Picture Classic (1916); Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Lloyd Bacon — Unknown author Unknown author; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain

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