The White Sister - DVD

Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits the property herself, throwing Lillian into poverty. Fortunately, she is engaged to marry the dashing officer Ronald Coleman, but he is captured by Arabs on an expedition to Arabia. Dedicating her life to his memory, Lillian becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and returning to Italy! The climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Academy Award winner Sophia Loren (1961, Best Actress, Two Women) stars as a young woman who loses her lover in an oil field accident in Libya. Brokenhearted, she becomes a nun, known as Sister Germana. Returning to Italy, she becomes an administrator of an unconventional hospital where a Marxist patient, Annibale (Adriano Celentano, La Dolce Vita), seems to have the run of the place; counseling doctors, administering cures and romancin

In the shadow of smouldering Mt. Vesuvius stands a small Italian village, serene in its age and dignity. The beauteous Donna Angela resides there, along with her wicked sister Marchesa and their elderly father. Angela is in love with a dashing soldier, Captain Giovanni Severi, currently stationed in Africa. They plan to marry upon his return, but Angela's father is killed in a riding accident before that can happen. Marchesa then secret