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Voidsville Follies

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles (5)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- Harry Warner, of Warner Bros. (1926)

The Last Days Of Pompeii (Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei) [1908]

Arturo Ambrosio (director)
Luigi Maggi (director)
Roberto Omegna (cinematographer/writer)
Giovanni Vitrotti (cinematographer)
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (author)
Lydia De Roberti (lead)
Umberto Mozzato (lead)
Società Anonima Ambrosio (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1908
Minutes: 17

Also known as "The Last Days of Pomposity", thanks to the hilariously hammy acting.

Featured elements:

: abuse; boozy-woozy; death scene; falsely accused; heroic defender; historical drama; manipulator; melodrama; redemption; rescue; revenge; Roman empire; servitude; suicide; unrequited love

In Love With The Bearded Woman (Amoureux de la Femme à Barbe)

Max Linder (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Aug 1909
Minutes: 6

This is not Max, the dapper and loveable upper-class twit, but appears to be the same schoolboy in His First Cigar (same uniform and still living with parents), who now has lovesick eyes for big bush.

Featured elements:

: carnival; chase; comedy; identity mix-up

Maudite soit la guerre

Alfred Machin (director/writer)
Jacques Bizeul (cinematographer)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in May 1914
Minutes: 50

Damn the war! Driving filmmakers to create shallow films that feature nothing other than fireworks and dreadfully boring upper-class twits who are better off dead! Damn the war film! Damn the anti-war film!

Featured elements:

: armed conflict; emblematic shot; melodrama; patriotism; servitude; social commentary

Cajus Julius Caesar

Enrico Guazzoni (director)
Raffaele Giovagnoli (writer)
William Shakespeare (author)
Amleto Novelli (lead)
Bruto Castellani (lead)
Irene Mattalia (lead)
Società Italiana Cines (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Nov 1914
Minutes: 112

Cast of thousands waddling around in sandals and togas in this spectacularly boring two-hour history lecture.

Featured elements:

: armed conflict; beheading; death scene; forbidden love; historical drama; melodrama; Roman empire; treachery; uprising

Maciste/Marvelous Maciste

Luigi Romano Borgnetto (director)
Vincenzo Denizot (director)
Agnes L. Bain (writer)
Giovanni Pastrone (writer)
Bartolomeo Pagano (lead)
Leone Papa (lead)
Amelia Chellini (lead)
Itala (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Aug 1915
Minutes: 64

Maciste smoothly steps out of his loincloth and dark skin into spats and double-breasted suit to hit the streets of 20th century Turin, where he is lured by a girl with a sob story straight out of your spam mail folder. A truly straight-up righteous dude, he bails on the dame, kicking a stray dog on the way. Things get worse for the hound when the studio nixed plans for his own spinoff series. Who needs a dog when you've got Maciste?

Featured elements:

: action; automobile; backstage; comedy; crime; fighting; heroic defender; metatheatre; rescue; strongman

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