''Maciste's American Nephew'' (Italian: ''Maciste e il nipote d'America'') is a 1924 Italian silent

adventure film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, an ...

directed by

Eleuterio Rodolfi Eleuterio Rodolfi (1876–1933) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was a leading figure in Cinema of Italy, Italian cinema during the silent era, directing over a hundred films including ''The Last Days of Pompeii (1913 film ...

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 ...

Diomira Jacobini Diomira Jacobini (25 May 1899 – 13 September 1959) was an Italian film actress of the silent era.Goble p.475 She was the younger sister of actress Maria Jacobini. Selected filmography * '' The Shadow of Her Past'' (1915) * '' The Rose of Grana ...

and

Alberto Collo Alberto Collo (6 May 1883 – 7 May 1955) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred and thirty films during his career, mostly during the silent era. During the 1910s he starred in several films directed by Baldassarre Negroni.Molit ...

. It was part of the long-running

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. He is usually depicted as a Hercu ...

series of films.Kinnard, & Crnkovich p.13

Cast

as Maciste *

Augusto Bandini Augusto Bandini (born 1889) was an Italian film actor.Dalle Vacche p.268 He appeared in more than forty productions, the majority of them during the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Emperor Maciste'' (1924) * ''Maciste's American Nephew'' ...

Oreste Bilancia Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor. Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indust ...

Mercedes Brignone Mercedes Brignone (18 May 1885 – 24 June 1967) was a Spanish-born Italian stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of the actor Giuseppe Brignone. She often played divas, and appeared in numerous silent films for Milano Films d ...

Pauline Polaire Pauline Polaire (stage name of Giulietta Gozzi) was an Italian actress. Giuletta Gozzi was born in Ravenna, Italy, on 30 June 1904. She was the niece of the Italian actress Hesperia (actress), Hesperia, née Olga Mambelli. She died in Rome on 11 ...

References

Bibliography

* Roy Kinnard & Tony Crnkovich. ''Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908–1990''. McFarland, 2017.

External links

* 1924 films Italian adventure films Italian silent feature films 1920s Italian-language films Films directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi 1924 adventure films Maciste films Italian black-and-white films Silent adventure films 1920s Italian films {{Italy-silent-film-stub