Thanhouser's 16th release and was advertised as "A powerful, pathetic, pretty story of life in Little Italy." The film featured Marie Eline (Tony, an Italian boy), Frank H. Crane (Tony Prolo, young Tony's father), and Anna Rosemond (Tony Prolo's wife). In this film Marie Eline was billed as "The Thanhouser Kid" for the first time.
Watch the official The Two Roses 1910 trailer in HD below.
United States 07 June 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
01 September 1910
A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.
01 March 1910
A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.
26 December 1910
Four good friends are so engrossed with their card game that they are late to pick up their wives at the theatre.
27 February 1910
In "Rêves enfantins", players in the flesh are mixed with animated objects and cut-out paper actors.
03 October 1910
A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his employer’s guests as they tour the printworks.
02 April 1910
This film presents some of the principal episodes in the life of Christopher Columbus, including the discovery of America.
03 November 1910
After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries.
09 December 1910
The Count of Champcenetz is governor of the Palace of the Tuileries. His mistress Grace Elliott, a young widow, begs him not to go the Palace where he must defend King Louis XVI, who is threatened by the Revolution.
12 February 1910
Mr. Josh Banks a ranchman, receives word that his niece, a pretty Chicago girl of eighteen, is on her way to make them a visit.
29 October 1910
An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.
23 November 1910
A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.
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