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The film depicts the daring endeavors of Michele Pezza, the patriot/ bandit who opposed the Napoleonic occupation of the Kingdom of Naples at the turn of the 19th century.
The father of Anna teaches music. A manager of the variety convinces Anna to perform for him at a variety, promising in return to release the old songs of her father. Anna decides to perform in the Variety against the advice of her father.
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The second adaptation of Raffaello Giovagnoli's novel comes at a time when Italy really started pumping out their epic films with the longer running times, expensive sets and lavish production values. This film really doesn't stray too far from the source as we have our hero Spartacus being sold as a slave only to rise up and battle the evil Crassus.
In fictional Silistria, a plot is hatched to send the heir to the throne to Paris for a year.
Family drama in which a mother, after the presumed death of her daughter, loses her mind.
Tonino Giolino is the cute little grandson of the prison warden. He loves helping grandfather his his duties, and is especially fond of hangings and the rack..... no. Basically, he goes into the cells with buckets of water for the prisoners. One of them is jailed for stealing a doll for his sick daughter. Tonino feels sorry, so he brings the girl all his toys and helps the prisoner escape.
One of the earliest surviving films of Italian director Umberto Paradisi.
79 AD. In the city of Pompeii the young Glaucus loves beautiful Jone, although he's courted by Giulia and secretly loved by his blind slave Nidia. One day Glaucus is wrongly accused of murder by a priest of Isis, Arbace, who wants to marry Jone and please Giulia. Glauco is condemned to be devoured by lions in the arena of the city, on that very day the erupting Vesuvius. Jone ovvero gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913) was one of two major Italian productions of The Last Days of Pompeii done in 1913, and not to be confused by the more famous Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913).
Released in 1917.
