''Pleasure Train'' (Italian: ''Treno di piacere'') is a 1924 Italian

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

directed by

Luciano Doria Luciano Doria (born 1891) was an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.Goble p.40 Selected filmography * '' Pleasure Train'' (1924) * ''Beatrice Cenci'' (1926) * ''The Golden Vein'' (1928) * '' Goodbye Youth'' (1928) * ''Kif Tebbi'' ...

and starring

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 indus ...

and

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 ...

. The film was shot by the

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-based Fert Film company. It still exists in archives.Reich p.276

Cast

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'' ...

Alex Bernard Alex Bernard (born Albert Alexandre Bernard, March 11, 1882 – August 20, 1968) was a French silent film actor. Biography Bernard was born in March 11, 1882 in Paris. He is best known for acting in silent films such as ''Cabiria'', directed b ...

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 ...

* Petronilla Garis *

Alberto Pasquali Alberto Pasquali (1882–1929) was an Italian stage and film actor of the silent era.Paietta p.58 Selected filmography * ''Christus'' (1916) * '' Redemption'' (1919) * '' Pleasure Train'' (1924) * ''Latest Night News'' (1924) * '' The Passion of ...

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Lidia Quaranta Lidia Quaranta (6 March 1891 – 5 March 1928) was an Italian stage and film actress of the early 20th century. Early career Lidia Gemma Mattia Quaranta was born in Turin, Italy, the older sister of twins Isabella and Letizia Quaranta. She beg ...

* Franz Sala *

Elena Sangro Elena Sangro (born Maria Antonietta Bartoli Avveduti, 5 September 1897 – 26 January 1969) was an Italian actress. Selected filmography * '' The Crusaders'' (1918) * '' Fabiola'' (1918) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' Emperor Maciste'' (1924) * '' Ple ...

Domenico Serra Domenico Serra (1899–1965) was an Italian stage and film actor. He made more than sixty films, many of them during the silent era including Mario Bonnard's historical film '' The Betrothed'' (1923).Goble p.305 In the sound era, he largely pl ...

References

Bibliography

* Jacqueline Reich. ''The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema''. Indiana University Press, 2015.

External links

* 1924 films Italian silent feature films 1920s Italian-language films Italian black-and-white films {{Italy-silent-film-stub