Maciste (Bartolomeo Pagano) - Collezione

Part 5 · May 2, 1918

Maciste atleta

Part 6 · May 1, 1919

Maciste in Love

Maciste, for the first time, suddenly discovers to be in love. The object of his love is Ada, the daughter of Thompson, an enlightened industrialist persecuted by Bethel, a competitor without scruples. He first makes use of a small group of agitators in order to foment the workers, then he tries to affect his loved ones, kidnapping his daughter. But he hasn’t squared things up with Maciste. In Maciste innamorato private and politic life interlace and condition each other. Maciste, a new popular hero, acts in advance of his time and sees himself as a media idol: after punishing the instigators, the crowd will recognize him as a movie star and promptly forget their claims carrying him shoulder-high. A hero, though, doomed to an unhappy love.

Part 7 · May 1, 1920

La trilogia di Maciste

Part 8 · Mar 1, 1921

Maciste salvato dalle acque

Part 9 · May 1, 1921

Maciste on His Vacation

The most explosive and surreal episode of the Maciste series in which we see the hero up against the hardships of the average man: stress, women and cars. The Itala studios are in a disorderly state, the crew watches Maciste in the courtyard as he happily darts around in his new car, a single seater renamed Diattolina in honor of the car maker Diatto, the film’s “sponsor”. Maciste is happy; he caresses the car and talks about his vehicle as if it were his bride. The only thing missing is the honeymoon. But peace and tranquility are not easy to come by: in every corner of the country Maciste is recognized as a generous film star. Waiters, salesmen, passersby and little kids: everyone has a problem for him. Who said something about relaxing? An abandoned castle looks like a peaceful place, but Maciste has not met the wild American girl hiding in the cellar…

Part 10 · Aug 18, 1921

La rivincita di Maciste

Part 11 · Jun 1, 1922

Man soll es nicht für möglich halten ...

Part 12 · Mar 1, 1923

Maciste und der Sträfling Nr. 51

Part 13 · Jul 1, 1923

Maciste und die chinesische Truhe

Part 14 · Nov 17, 1923

Maciste e la figlia del re dell'argento

Part 15 · Mar 1, 1924

Maciste e il nipote d'America

Part 16 · Nov 1, 1924

Maciste Emperor

Maciste takes advantage again of a break of acting in order to wash away injustice and castigate the wicked, this time in the name of dynastic legitimacy. Otis, the prince of Sirdagna kingdom, lives undercover in a foreign land, waiting to ascend the throne; Stanos the evil ruler though, is willing to do anything in order to prevent the legitimate prince installation. The court is a dangerous place, Otis is young and naïf: in order to solve the situation, Maciste, following the advice of his friend Saetta, temporarily takes Otis’s place, and presents himself as the legitimate prince. The crowd, enamored by his good looks, applauds him immediately as the emperor.

Part 17 · Oct 19, 1925

Maciste in Hell

The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.

Part 18 · Feb 11, 1926

Maciste nella gabbia dei leoni

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.

Part 19 · Feb 28, 1926

Maciste contro lo sceicco

A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor. He and Maciste fight off the entire crew but the girl is captured again by the sheik and carried off to his harem, where Maciste and the sailor rescue her and take her back to Italy.

Part 20 · Jan 1, 1927

The Giant of the Dolomites

Expert mountain-guide Maciste lives in the Dolomites. He dotes on his young nephew Hans, the illegitimate son of his sister, who died of a broken heart for the dishonour of being seduced and abandoned. Maciste’s bitter rival is the sinister Schultz, a smuggler in search of easy money who teams up with two adventurers: Müller and the mysterious Vanna Dardos. Schultz’s plan is to steal the design for a revolutionary aviation project that engineer Riccardo Ewert is finishing in the peace and quiet of his mountain chalet. Thanks to Maciste the plan is thwarted and Müller and Schultz die overwhelmed by an avalanche while escaping through the mountains.