Regeneration is a 1915 American silent film which tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob, until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change. Believed to be the first gangster movie, the picture was co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh and stars John McCann, James A. Marcus, Maggie Weston, H. McCoy, Rockliffe Fellowes, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh, and Anna Q. Nilsson and is 20th Century Fox's first film. The film was adapted by Carl Harbaugh and Walsh from a memoir My Mamie Rose by Owen Frawley Kildare and the adapted play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett. In 2000, Regeneration was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The director, Raoul Walsh, had appeared as John Wilkes Booth earlier the same year in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and shot Regeneration on location in the Lower East Side of New York City. The story follows the life of Owen, a young boy who is forced into a life a poverty after his mother dies. As a result, Owen is forced to live on the street eventually turning to a life of crime. Owen is eventually reformed, however, by the benevolent Marie Deering. Wikipedia [ - ]

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