Mario Guaita-Ausonia

One of the most famous of the early Italian epics which brought about the change from short subjects to feature films in America. Massive crowd scenes, spectacular sets that rival the sets from Intolerance and an interesting story all add up to fine entertainment from the cinema's early beginnings.

On the Steps of the Throne

A poor girl dream of a king, who defends the oppressed. One of the many french films directed by famous italian actor Mario Guaita, screenwritten by his french wife Renée Deliot, who is considered the first women to have a long career in screenwriting.

Lost film.

Free adaptation from Ferragus by Balzac, first story of the Histoire des Treize trilogy in Scènes de al vei parisienne of La Comédie humaine. Balzac's text has as its backdrop the events of a secret community made up of men of Parisian high society and is endowed with all the typical adventurous and bourgeois elements of the Guaita/Deliot production. Lost film.

"Gli spettri della fattoria" reproduces the cliché of a criminal gang working in a secret lair (an abandoned mansion that locals believe to be haunted), in this case led by an evil woman who uses dual identities for criminal purposes. The mystery unfolds around a legacy. As always, Guaita plays the righteous and strong hero, able to defeat the bandits thanks to his physical strength and ingenuity.

In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved by her normally shy, unassuming boyfriend, Audreses, who comes to her rescue disguised as a bare-chested wrestler wearing a mask.

Il pescatore di perle

La nave dei miliardi

Ausonia is a poor circus performer, widowed and unemployed, with two young daughters. He succeeds to get hired in the theater of a fair run by Madame Mons and her daughter Paulete. Soon fired for having refused the owner's amorous proposals, he gets into trouble.

La cintura delle Amazzoni (presumed a lost film but actually in perfect health, preserved by the Narodní filmový archív), promises fun, elegance and erotic innuendos. The story concerns a circus of attractions that comes to town. The owner of the local country club is keen on aquiring the circus owner's fine white mares - however to make that happen he must court Cleopatra, his daughter - when he is actually in love with the beautiful niece instead. All the while, a group of no-nonsense/no-men Amazons arrive in town promissing to beat the local athletes to a sports' match on the arena.