Short film
Stronger than Sherlock Holmes
1913 · 6 min
A featherlight silent-era lark, dreamlike and silly, that flits by in minutes with the giddy logic of a nap.
- Directed by
- Giovanni Pastrone
- Genres
- Comedy, Action
- Starring
- Domenico Gambino, Emilio Vardannes
- Overview
- A bourgeois gentleman gets excited reading about cops and robbers on the newspaper. His wife, bored by his comments, falls asleep and right after, with the help of the warmth of the living room, he falls asleep too. Then, the shadow of an escaping robber comes to life from the newspaper. Suddenly the dreamer wakes up wearing the cop uniform and starts chasing him.
- How it feels
- Whimsical, light, absurd and campy. Brisk and fine in the background.
- About
- Obsession, identity, deception
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Giovanni Pastrone
- Genres
- Comedy, Action
- Starring
- Domenico Gambino, Emilio Vardannes
