Regeneration (1915 film)

Regeneration
Anna Q. Nilsson and William Sheer
Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Produced by	William Fox
Written by	Carl Harbaugh (adaptation) Raoul Walsh (adaptation)
Based on	My Mamie Rose by Owen Frawley Kildare The Regeneration by Walter C. Hackett and Owen Frawley Kildare
Starring	Rockliffe Fellowes Anna Q. Nilsson James A. Marcus Carl Harbaugh
Cinematography	Georges Benoît
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 13, 1915 (1915-09-13)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Regeneration is a 1915 American silent biographical crime drama co-written and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, which was the first full-length feature film directed by Walsh, stars Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson and was adapted for the screen by Carl Harbaugh and Walsh from the memoir My Mamie Rose, by Owen Frawley Kildare and the adapted play by Kildare and Walter C. Hackett.

Cited as one of the first full-length gangster films,Regeneration tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change.

The story follows the life of Owen (Rockliffe Fellowes), a young Irish American 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 (Anna Q. Nilsson). Also featured is a fire aboard an excursion ferry, much like the General Slocum disaster of 1904.

Set in New York City, Regeneration was shot on location in New York City's Lower East Side and used real prostitutes, gangsters and homeless people as extras. It is the first produced by Fox Film Corporation, a forerunner of the 20th Century Fox.