Editing The Italian (1915 film) (section)

==Plot==
[[File:The Italian (Reginald Barker, 1915).webm|thumb|thumbtime=5|upright=1.5|''The Italian'']]
The film tells the story of Pietro "Beppo" Donnetti.  Donnetti is a poor, but happy, [[gondolier]] in [[Venice, Italy]].  Beppo falls in love with Annette Ancello, but her father, Trudo, wants her to marry another suitor, one who is a successful businessman.  If Beppo can prove himself within a year, Trudo agrees to allow him to marry Annette.

Beppo sails for America to make his fortune, making a living working as a [[shoeshiner]] on a street corner in New York City.  He borrows money from an Irish ward boss, Bill Corrigan, and sends for Annette to join him.  In exchange, Beppo agrees to help Corrigan's candidate win the Italian vote in the ward.

When Annette arrives in New York, she and Beppo are married, and the following year they have a son, Tony.  Beppo, Annette and Tony live a happy life in their Lower East Side tenement.  The happiness is interrupted when the baby contracts a fever during a heatwave.  The doctor instructs them to feed pasteurized milk to the baby.  Beppo works hard to earn the money to purchase the expensive milk.  While walking to the store to buy the milk, Beppo is robbed.  He attacks the men who robbed him and is arrested.  Beppo asks Corrigan to help his baby while he is in jail: "I must get-a-de-milk or my babee is die." Corrigan rebuffs Beppo, and Beppo's baby dies during Beppo's five days in jail.

When Beppo is released from jail, he learns that Corrigan's young daughter is ill and vows to avenge his son's death by killing Corrigan's daughter.  Beppo sneaks into Corrigan's house, but when he sees Corrigan's daughter lying in her crib, he cannot act on his plan, and he leaves the child unharmed.

In the final scene of the narrative, Beppo  is shown placing flowers and sobbing over his son's grave.