A wordless fisher-girl is seduced and left by a Spaniard. Year 2018 Video Release 2018-02-27 Studio Oscilloscope Pictures Genre Drama MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 112 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis The Dumb Girl of Portici has been long overdue for recognition as one of pioneer filmmaker Lois Weber's finest creations and a landmark in women's cinema. The blockbuster film was Universal's most expensive to date and featured an enormous cast, large-scale sets, and an ambitious story. For Weber, The Dumb Girl of Portici represented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with the incomparable prima ballerina, Anna Pavlova. Pavlova was appearing with the Boston Opera Company in D. F. E. Auber's 1829 La Muette de Portici, portraying Fenella, a wordless fisher-girl living during the Spanish occupation of Naples in the mid-17th century, who is seduced and abandoned by a Spanish nobleman. In the opera and in Weber's stirring drama, the betrayal of Fenella and the oppression of her people inspire her brother to foment a revolution Director Lois Weber Cast Lois Weber; Anna Pavlova; Rupert Julian; Wadsworth Harris