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

Quote:
“I saw it while my father held me standing in a crowd of people with his coat soaked through because it was raining. I remember a big woman with a bare belly, belly button, flashing darkened eyes. With an authoritative gesture she created a circle of fire around Maciste, who also was semi nude and holding a staff.” (Federico Fellini, Intervista sul cinema, edited by Giovanni Grazzini, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1983). Maciste all’inferno is “devilishness in five acts”, set in a sensual, Baroque hell. The torrid climate does not spare Maciste who, the only time in the whole series, gives in to the beautiful queen Proserpina; he will pay dearly for this act by being transformed into a devil with tail and goat feet to boot. The devils are very human like, and they fight, betray one another, plan political intrigues and gather in the evening before a screen to watch the events on Earth, as if it were live television. As usual Maciste works his wonder by defeating a fleet of devils, even though in the end it is not his force that wins but the prayers of a child. Maciste all’inferno is the last film in the series starring Bartolomeo Pagano, who ends with one of his best performances. After 1926, the actor would continue acting, but not as Maciste, until he finally had to stop for health reasons. He spent the rest of his life at “villa Maciste”, which he had built for himself and his family on the hills outside Genoa.
The new joint restoration by Cineteca di Bologna and Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, includes the original intertitles that describe the underworld with Dantesque tercets. The film was restored at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna in June 2009.

Stella Dagna, Claudia Gianetto

Maciste.all'inferno.1925.576p.WEB.Dual.AAC.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
Size: 	2.34 GiB
Video
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Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
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Audio
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#2:  	zxx 2.0ch AAC LC @ 151 kb/s (Gojira live accompaniment)

https://nitro.download/view/04720D711BB063C/Maciste.all’inferno.1925.576p.WEB.Dual.AAC.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):Italian intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Socrate, a weird parrot, one day flies away through an open window. The mistress of the parrot imposes on her boyfriend Ajax a terrible condition: if he doesn’t find Socrate, she will marry another man. Ajax immediately starts to look for Socrate, but soon he discovers that the parrot has been captured and sold to a young lady leaving for Havana. Finally Ajax manages to get to Cuba, but once there he finds out that Socrate has already flown away to return to his original owner; she telegraphs Ajax asking him to return to her – but she will wait in vain: Ajax has already fallen in love with the young lady who emigrated to Cuba.

The video is a copy from the film print held by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema: 35mm, positive, polyester, 1325 m, 65′ at 18 fps, colour (Desmetcolor), Portuguese intertitles, silent.

The film restoration:
The restoration of La fuga di Socrate was carried out by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, from a tinted positive nitrate copy with Portuguese intertitles from the Cinemateca Brasileira that is conserved at the Cineteca di Bologna.

The restoration work was carried out in June 2009 at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna.

758MB | 1 h 4 min | 724×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DED687B643C1F98/La_fuga_di_Socrate_(Rodolfi_Film,_1923).mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/3AC03FAFACF4C45/La_fuga_di_Socrate.En.srt
http://nitroflare.com/view/F4B9C250F5759A3/La_fuga_di_Socrate.Es.srt
http://nitroflare.com/view/4CA99BB5CF9B303/La_fuga_di_Socrate.Pt.srt

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:Portuguese intertitles,English,Spanish

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Scifilm wrote:
Maciste is tempted by the devil, and ends up trapped in hell when he elects to fight him.

Bartolomeo Pagano played Maciste in the 1914 movie CABIRIA; he must have liked the character; he ended up playing him repeatedly in a variety of movies over the next twenty years. I do wonder about the character’s position in time; CABIRIA took place in ancient Rome, but even if I’m not sure when this movie takes place, it’s certainly a much later period of time; Maciste wears a suit and tie through most of this, and at one point he is tempted with some shots of very modern cities indeed. Nonetheless, the fantasy element is very strong; the scenes in hell are great, with a huge cast of demons and fiends, including a couple of giant demons, a flying dragon, and some great special effects. It’s based at least partially on Dante’s “Inferno”, and it includes both Lucifer, Pluto and Proserpine as characters. I would love to have seen some of the other early Maciste movies just to see what the character’s story was, but this one and CABIRIA are the only ones I know exist for sure. It’s definitely worth a look for people interested in creative visions of hell; the movie apparently served as an inspiration both for Mario Bava and Federico Fellini.

699MB | 01:05:16 | 576×432 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/0F5CC84596B1513/Maciste_all_inferno-guido_brignone_1926.avi

Language:Silent (With music)
Subtitles: English Intertitles

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