Mes P'tits 1924    star_border 6
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.

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Gli Spettri Della Fattoria 1923
"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.

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Frisson 1922
Lost film.

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Sotto I Ponti Di Parigi 1921
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.

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The Belt of the Amazons 1920
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.

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The Phantom Athlete 1919    star_border 5
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.

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