Fulta Fisher’s Boarding House

US 1922. D: Frank Capra. Based on the poem "The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House" from Departmental Ditties (1886) by Rudyard Kipling; SC: Frank Capra, Walter Montague; DP: Roy Wiggins; CAST: Mildred Owens (Anne of Austria), Ethan Allen (Salem Hardieker), Olaf Skavlan (Hans), Gerald Griffin (marinaio inglese), Oreste Seragnoli (Luz); PC: G. F. Harris e David F. Supple di Montague Studios per Fireside Productions; 35mm. [Announced: 15’ a 22 fps], actually 13 min. B&w. From: Sony Columbia (Frank Capra’s personal nitrate print collection). - Presenta Joseph McBride, grand piano: Marco Dalpane?, earphone translation into Italian. - Viewed at Cinema Lumière 1, Bologna, 27 June 2009. - Ok print. - A filmed poem. The milieu: qf. Les Bas-fonds.