L'appel du sang

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"Maurice Delarey and Hermione Lester, newlyweds, are on their honeymoon in Sicily . When the bride visits the bedside of a dying friend, Maurice is dragged by an elder, Émile d'Arbois, to a village festival. There, he falls in love with Maddalena, daughter of the fisherman Salvatore and sister of Gaspare... Recently restored with good pictures , this obscure melodrama deals with atavism : hence the title which means "call of the blood) : in effect Maurice,the newly wed, has Sicilian blood in his veins, for he has a grandmother from his island ; he falls head over heels for a young ma..."