Evangeline /

The love story of a young Acadian girl who, separated from her betrothed during the French and Indian War, spends years in fruitless searching, becomes a Sister of Mercy in Philadelphia and there, in her old age, is reunited with her former lover when he is dying of a pestilence.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Edwin Carewe Productions, Mary Pickford Foundation, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Image Entertainment (Firm), Milestone Film & Video
Other Authors: Carewe, Edwin, 1883-1940, Fox, Finis, Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983, Drew, Roland, 1900-1988, Francis, Alec B., 1867-1934, Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969, Reed, Donald, 1905-1973, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:Silent with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Milestone Film & Video, [2001]
Edition:Digitally remastered version.
Series:Milestone collection.
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Description
Summary:The love story of a young Acadian girl who, separated from her betrothed during the French and Indian War, spends years in fruitless searching, becomes a Sister of Mercy in Philadelphia and there, in her old age, is reunited with her former lover when he is dying of a pestilence.
Item Description:"Restored by ... the UCLA Film and Television Archive in cooperation with the Mary Pickford Foundation"--Container.
Originally produced as a motion picture by Edwin Carewe Productions in 1929.
Based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (87 min.) : silent, tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; Dolby digital mono; NTSC.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Producer/director, Edwin Carewe ; screenplay, Finis Fox ; photography, Robert B. Kurrle, Al M. Green ; original Hugo Riesenfeld score with additional piano score by Philip Carli.