Jan 24th
The Last Days of Pompeii*  
(Ita 1913)
88m. bw. silent



A blind servant girl is jealous of her master's lover but rescues them both from the eruption of Vesuvius.
A mixture of the primitive and the occasionally lavishly staged in this early cinema adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel, filmed in some scenic Italian locations.

w: Arriga Frusta
d: Eleuterio Rodolfi
s: Fernanda Negri Pauget, Udaldo Stefani, Eugenia Tettani Fior, Antonio Grisanti, Vitale di Stefano
ph: Giuseppe Vitrotti

+ one of two Italian film versions of the novel made that year

Preceded by:
Bugs Bunny in
What's Opera, Doc?**
(US 1957. 7m.; One of the best, certainly the most stylized Merrie Melodies, and also one of the best reprentations of Wagner's music on screen.; w: Michael Maltese; d: Chuck Jones; voices of Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan.)