
Carlo Campogalliani was an Italian screenwriter, actor, and film director whose career spanned from the silent film era into the 1960s. He directed approximately eighty films and acted in around fifty. Notable directorial works include The Woman at Midnight (1925), Stadium (1934), and Goliath and the Barbarians (1959). Campogalliani was married to actress Letizia Quaranta, who appeared in several ...
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A 1924 film.

A 1924 film.

La tempesta in un cranio (Tempest in a Cranium) is an anarchic, quasi-surreal Italian comedy of multiple delights in which the timorous scion of a wealthy family is gaslit by his friends in order to prove that his fears of hereditary insanity are hogwash.

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A 1920 silent film directed by and starring Carlo Campogalliani who supports Bartolomeo Pagano in the role of Maciste.

A 1920 silent film directed by and starring Carlo Campogalliani, starring Bartolomeo Pagano in the role of Maciste.

Maciste is on the trail of a gang of criminals who have kidnapped the beautiful princess Maria Letícia de Livonia, traveling to Rome, and go to hide near a port. in this adventure, Maciste is helped by his friend, the journalist Tito Fabrizi, who was breastfed by the same woman.

In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall. Cato, a Roman Senator, appealed to the Senate to conquer Carthage, and under a pretext that she had failed to keep faith, the Romans began a new war. The Roman army embarked for Africa and landed near Carthage.

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love with her new master, but he only has eyes for Ione. Ione in turn is lusted after by Arbace, an Egyptian high priest of Isis. When Nydia beseeches Isis for help in capturing Glaucus' heart, Arbace gives her a "love" potion-- an elixir made to drive Glaucus mad, securing Ione for himself. Ultimately, Mount Vesuvius will end their lives and seal their fates in a terrible, glorious eruption.

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