''Maciste on Vacation'' (Italian: ''Maciste in vacanza'') is a 1921 Italian
silent adventure film
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directed by
Luigi Romano Borgnetto
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and starring
Bartolomeo Pagano
Bartolomeo Pagano (27 September 1878 – 24 June 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor.
Before his cinema career, Pagano was a stevedore who worked at the port of Genoa. There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a m ...
,
Henriette Bonard and
Gemma De Sanctis
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Maciste
Maciste () is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s.
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films.
Cast
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Bartolomeo Pagano
Bartolomeo Pagano (27 September 1878 – 24 June 1947) was an Italian motion picture actor.
Before his cinema career, Pagano was a stevedore who worked at the port of Genoa. There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a m ...
as Maciste
*
Henriette Bonard as Elisa Guappana
*
Gemma De Sanctis
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as la nonna
*
Mario Voller-Buzzi as conte Baiardi
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Felice Minotti
Felice Minotti (19 November 1887 – 21 March 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 91 films between 1908 and 1963.
Selected filmography
* '' The Revenge of Maciste'' (1921)
* '' Maciste on Vacation'' (1921)
* ''The House of Pulci ...
as Fernando Perez
*
Guido De Rege as Dasti, il poeta
*
Emilio Vardannes
References
Bibliography
* Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. ''Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908–1990''. McFarland, 2017.
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1921 films
1920s Italian-language films
Films directed by Luigi Romano Borgnetto
Italian silent feature films
Italian black-and-white films
1921 adventure films
Italian adventure films
Silent adventure films
1920s Italian films
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