Known for Acting
The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.
A poor farmer is invited to the King's court and tries to prevent the princess' marriage to a villanious knight.
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.
Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.
Count De Cay is happily married to a beautiful woman loyal to him. During an innocent and fortuitous encounter with one of his ex-lovers, however, he is surprised by his elderly uncles, who warn the countess.