Emilio Ghione

The Last Days of Pompeii

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in the mid-1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii, followed by a screening at the major restoration festival ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna in 1998.

La cavalcata ardente

In Naples in 1860, a girl named Grazia, a strongly pro-Flobonic Montechiaro, is betrothed to the general of Santafè. She is secretly in love with John, a patriot and revolutionary.

The Grey Rats

Za La Mort (Emilio Ghioen) lives in the countryside with his girlfriend Za La Vie (Kally Sambucini). A day does a good deed by taking with him Leo, an orphan found on the street. This situation, however, the rage against the Rats Grey, a group of criminals in the country, because Leo is in possession of an important black envelope. Released in eight chapters.

The Yellow Triangle

Directed by Emilio Ghione.

Dark Souls

The love between the apache Za la Mort, here in his fourth film, and Hesperia, the woman who has killed his girlfriend...

La banda delle cifre

Directed by Emilio Ghione.

Guglielmo Oberdan, il martire di Trieste

Guglielmo Oberdan, the martyr of Trieste, already exemplary figure of fervent irredentist, then anti-Austrian conspirator executed for attempting to assassinate Emperor Franz Joseph after the disillusionment that followed the death of Garibaldi (1882), became, in 1915, the symbol of a civil case of patriotism.

Za-la-Mort

Directed by Emilio Ghione, the second film in the Za-la-Mort series. This film is considered lost.

The Masked Amazon

Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.

Pierrot the Prodigal

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pierrot is led astray by the evil wine merchant Pochinet (Emilio Ghione). He hopes to distract Pierrot with drinking and gambling while he tries to seduce Louisette.

La terra promessa

Italian short drama from Baldassarre Negroni.

The Black Circle

The Black Circle is a Italian film from the Celio Film company.

Fatal Opium

Rejected by the man she loves, a woman takes a lethal dose of morphine.

Woman's Logic

Italian film from 1912

Richard the Lion-Hearted

A silent adaptation of the later parts of Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Talisman": During King Richard’s illness, his sworn enemy the Duke of Monserrat steals the English flag from the crusader camp. To avenge the insult, Richard decrees that Monserrat must engage in mortal combat with Sir Kenneth, the king’s favorite knight.

Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti

Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....