The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
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Lawrence Peyton as Martin Eden
Viola Barry as Ruth Morse
Herbert Rawlinson as Arthur Morse
Rhea Haines as Lizzie Connolly
Ann Ivers as Maria Silva
Ray Myers as Russ Brissenden
Elmer Clifton as Cub Reporter
Joe Ray as (uncredited)
United States 16 August 1914
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12 March 1929
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26 September 1924
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21 January 1928
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24 October 1927
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13 December 1925
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Martin Eden de Pietro Marcello fut l'un des temps forts de la 76e édition de la Mostra de Venise. Ce cinéaste italien remarqué avec La bocca del lupo (2009) ...
Sceneggiato RAI in cinque puntate trasmesso nel 1979. tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Jack London pubblicato prima a puntate sulla rivista "Pacific Monthly" ...
Sceneggiato RAI in cinque puntate trasmesso nel 1979. tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Jack London pubblicato prima a puntate sulla rivista "Pacific Monthly" ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1914:
01 April 1914
Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad.
01 January 1914
Two young men serving at the front. One comes from a good family, the other's family is poor. But the sister of the middle-class son falls in love with his poor comrade when he returns home for Christmas.
22 January 1914
A knight of the grip has many inconveniences to contend with, and not only that, but often his very life is in danger.
26 September 1914
Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the shooting he hastens to her home and tells her he has shot a man, but does not know who he is.
24 June 1914
Argentino Boldo has a valuable book in his possession that Texas Tommy, Hesitation Nell and One-Step McGinnis desire to appropriate.
24 August 1914
Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself.
02 January 1914
This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
10 April 1914
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara.
01 October 1914
Accompanied by his dog Skookum, artist Richard Alden goes to work painting the beauty of Laguna Beach.
22 October 1914
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie.
05 June 1914
In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden.
01 January 1914
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel.
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