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1934 film by Alessandro Blasetti

The Old Guard

Directed by	Alessandro Blasetti
Written by	Livio Apolloni Giuseppe Zucca Alessandro Blasetti
Starring	Gianfranco Giachetti Mino Doro Franco Brambilla Maria Puccini
Cinematography	Otello Martelli
Edited by	Ignazio Ferronetti Alessandro Blasetti
Music by	Umberto Mancini
Production company	Fauno Film
Distributed by	Filmimpero
Release date	1934 (1934)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Old Guard (Italian: Vecchia guardia) is a 1934 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gianfranco Giachetti, Mino Doro, and Franco Brambilla. It was one of several pro-Fascist films made by Blasetti during the era. The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting. The film ends with the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power.

Although intended as sympathetic to the regime, and the methods by which it came to power, the film was not popular with the Fascist hierarchy who felt its portrayal of violence undermined the respectable image the party was now trying to cultivate.

Cast

Gianfranco Giachetti as Dott. Claudio Cardini
Mino Doro as Roberto
Franco Brambilla as Mario
Maria Puccini as La moglie
Barbara Monis as La maestra
Graziella Antonelli as La sorella della maestra
Ugo Ceseri as Marcone
Umberto Sacripante as Il pazzo Tralicò
Graziela Betti as La ragazza del convento
Gino Viotti as Il sindaco
Cesare Zoppetti as L'assessore
Aristide Garbini as L'uscere
Italo Tancredi as L'infermiere
Andrea Checchi as Pompeo
Ugo Sasso as Uno squadrista

References

Gundle p.30
Moliterno p.41

Bibliography

Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
Moliterno, Gino. Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

The Old Guard at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Sun (1929) Nerone (1930) Resurrection (1931) Mother Earth (1931) Palio (1932) The Table of the Poor (1932) The Haller Case (1933) 1860 (1934) The Old Guard (1934) Aldebaran (1935) The Countess of Parma (1937) Ettore Fieramosca (1938) Backstage (1939) An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939) The Iron Crown (1941) The Jester's Supper (1942) Four Steps in the Clouds (1942) No Turning Back (1945) Un giorno nella vita (1946) Fabiola (1949) Father's Dilemma (1950) In Olden Days (1952) Too Bad She's Bad (1954) A Slice of Life (1954) Lucky to Be a Woman (1956) Love and Chatter (1957) I Love, You Love (1961) Three Fables of Love (1962) Liolà (1963) Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) Simón Bolívar (1969)

Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti

Sun (1929)
Nerone (1930)
Resurrection (1931)
Mother Earth (1931)
Palio (1932)
The Table of the Poor (1932)
The Haller Case (1933)
1860 (1934)
The Old Guard (1934)
Aldebaran (1935)
The Countess of Parma (1937)
Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
Backstage (1939)
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939)
The Iron Crown (1941)
The Jester's Supper (1942)
Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)
No Turning Back (1945)
Un giorno nella vita (1946)
Fabiola (1949)
Father's Dilemma (1950)
In Olden Days (1952)
Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
A Slice of Life (1954)
Lucky to Be a Woman (1956)
Love and Chatter (1957)
I Love, You Love (1961)
Three Fables of Love (1962)
Liolà (1963)
Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
Simón Bolívar (1969)

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