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The White Sister

1923 · 2h 15m · Drama, Romance · United States of America

A love that outlived passion!

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.

Directed by
Henry King
Written by
George V. Hobart, Charles E. Whittaker
Based on the novel by
Francis Marion Crawford
Starring
Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry
6.2Smart score

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catholicismconvent (nunnery)holy ordersnatural disasternunordinationreligious vowsilent filmspitevesuviusvolcano

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