Evangeline
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
R. A. Walsh
Miriam Cooper
Albert Roscoe
Spottiswoode Aitken
James Marcus
Paul Weigel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A father reads to his daughter and her fiancé who have been quarreling, Longfellow's poem "Evangeline": In 1775, in the village of Grand-Pre in the valley of Arcadia, a wedding ceremony attended by all the happy villagers, between Evangeline, the daughter of the wealthiest farmer in the region, and Gabriel, the son of a blacksmith, is stopped by British soldiers who exile the French Arcadians. Gabriel and Evangeline are torn apart and put on separate boats heading south. Gabriel's boat takes him to the lowlands of Louisiana where he and his father prosper, but he refuses other women, longing for Evangeline. For years she searches for Gabriel, also refusing others, and once they almost meet. When they are very old, Gabriel, dying of pestilence, comes to the almshouse where Evangeline is a nurse and dies in her arms. The modern-day lovers, moved by the tale, forgive each other.
Director
R. A. Walsh
Cast
Miriam Cooper
Albert Roscoe
Spottiswoode Aitken
James Marcus
Paul Weigel
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Some scenes were filmed at a ranch near Silver Lake, CA. The film was endorsed by the American Longfellow Society. Publicity indicates that close to 1,000 people were used in the film. The copyright entry and some of the reviews give the film's length as five reels. Among the other screen versions of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem are the 1913 Canadian feature directed by E. P. Sullivan and William Cavanaugh, and the 1929 Fox film starring Dolores Del Rio and directed by Edwin Carewe (see below).
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1919
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2000
reels 5
Released in United States 1919
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2000
