Il cavaliere del silenzio

Literal: The silent knight No English release

[writer unknown], directed by Oreste Visalli

Release: June 1916
Format: Feature Film
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Audience: Adults
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: Italian

We have sparse information about this silent film apart from a note in Alan Goble’s The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film, which lists the 1907 [sic] play When Knights Were Bold as the source of the 1180-meter film, directed by Oreste Visalli, released by Aquila Film, and featuring Jeanne Nolly, Giulio Del Torre, and Claudia Zambuto.

— Michael Main

DEBUT

Il cavaliere del silenzio (at movie theaters, Italy, June 1916).

VARIANTS

0 Italian variants

TRANSLATIONS: No translations.

PRIOR WORKS: based on When Knights Were Bold by Harriett Jay and Robert Buchanan (1906)

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454)
Circa AD 1900 to 1929: presumed time period

Themes

Just a Dream, Hallucination, et al.: a strong possibility given the source material of When Knights Were Bold
People from Different Times Look Exactly Alike: We presume that Rowena and de Vere are played by the same actress and actor, past and present.

Real-World Tags

Knights

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From early twentieth century ⋙ to the Middle Ages. Round trip. Note: probably a dream.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Classification—just a guess that this is a feature film (more than 40 minutes) based on the length of 1140 meters and additional information about <a href='works-602'>the English version</a>.
Credits—It’s almost certain that <a href='Robert_Buchanan'>Robert Buchanan</a> was uncredited; we have no information on whether <a href='Harriet_Jay'>Harriet Jay</a> was credited as Charles Marlowe or otherwise.