Romola

ROMOLA is a lavishly mounted tale of treachery and political intrigue in Renaissance Italy. As decor is the film's primary virtue, the degree to which modern audiences respond to ROMOLA will be dependent on the quality of the particular print being screened.

Tito (William H. Powell), a Greek who claims to have been recently shipwrecked, appears one day in 15th-century Florence, where he insinuates himself into the good graces of a wealthy scholar named Bardo Bardi (Bonaventura Ibanez) and his lovely daughter, Romola (Lillian Gish). Meanwhile, Tito secretly takes Tessa (Dorothy Gish), a rather simpleminded street vendor, as his common-law wife and installs her an...