Amleto e il Suo Clown

Alternative title

On with the Motley

Synopsis

Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John Arnold, an old friend of the family. Alexandra sees parallels in Hamlet. She persuades her mother to give a garden party and with the assistance of some clowns from a circus she gives a version of the play scene from Hamlet. She believes she sees guilt in her stepfather’s reactions and kills him. She is arrested and as she awaits trial a young farmer confesses to the murder. Alexandra joins the circus. When her mother urges her to come home she throws herself from a height during a sensational act and dies in her mother’s arms.

Country

Italy

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1920

Recording date

26 Feb 1920

Duration

c66; c6000 feet

Availability

Presumed a lost film.

Credits

Director

Carmino Gallone

Screenplay

Lucio D’Ambra

Cast

Elisa Severi	Her mother
Soave Gallone	Alexandra Tranda

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General

Some sources cite Emilio Guattari as cinematographer.

Reviews

Bioscope (May 13 1920).
Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968) p. 266.

Production Company

Name

D’Ambra