Evangeline (1914 film) (1914)

Original title

Evangeline

Directed by

William Cavanaugh, Edward P. Sullivan

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 15m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film tells the story of Evangeline, a woman separated from her love during a time of conflict. It follows her long search for him across different lands.

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What happens

Evangeline is a 1914 Canadian silent drama film directed by Edward P. Sullivan and William Cavanaugh and starring Laura Lyman and John F. Carleton. The screenplay was adapted from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline by Marguerite Marquis. It is the earliest recorded fictional Canadian feature film. The Canadian Bioscope Company produced Evangeline at locations in Nova Scotia and Quebec during 1913 for a cost of $30,000. The film's directors and lead actors were Americans while the supporting cast were Canadians. The film was shown in New York City before its Canadian premiere in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was shown throughout Canada and the United States where it received positive reviews for its faithful adaption of Longfellow's poem. It is now a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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