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There are a great many silent films that deserve to be seen today, not only for their historical importance (or curiosity), but for their qualities as a well made film. Released in Italy in 1914, this first great epic film surely inspired D.W. Griffith to expand his vision, scope and sets for 'Intolerance' (1916), and influenced other film makers, including Ernst Lubitch for his 'Das Weib des Pharao' ('The Wife of Pharoah') (1922), as well as prepared audiences for other American films like 'Ben Hur' (1922), and 'The 10 Commandments' (1923). It's a spectacular epic feast of costumes, sets, and film making techniques.But as a well made film, it also has action and a good story, though for those who've forgotten their World History and the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage (I only encountered them in my high school third year Latin class), it may be boring, because it is awfully long. This may be why 43% of IMDb votes were a 1, but you really have to give this film its due. The story moves along; the sacrifice of children to Moloch is just one of many amazing sets, scenes and 'action packed thrills.' Allowing for the fact that sound was not yet a part of film making, the director had the actors convey a lot of 'dialog' through mimed gestures, with some acting drawing too much from the staginess of Italian opera. But we get Bartolemo Pagani in his initial portrayal of Maciste, a role he played in 25 films! Looks like he was wearing blackface to look African-- and it turns out he was. He steals most of his scenes.This is clearly a landmark film of the teen years and must be seen. I give it an 8.

The splendid set design back in 1914, which would obviously influence Griffith's Intolerance a few years later, is worth watching. Other than that, as a work in the dawn of film history, Cabiria inevitably suffers several flaws. Comprising exclusively medium and long shots (with absolutely no close-ups), the film should have relied on engaging storytelling, but it just progresses tediously. As a title role, Cabiria should have appeared on the screen more, but she serves as a catalyst and stays behind the scene for most time.Versatile solo piano on the soundtrack (which is, according to the credit of "1990 alternate version" I watched, "Piano Score recorded by Jacques Ganthier, based on the original 1914 score," which I assume is composed by Manlio Mazza) imitates Classical composers in various eras, from Bach to Beethoven to Schumann to Brahms to Debussy, and is quite enjoyable by itself.

This one caught me off guard. I stayed up past midnight to watch "Cabiria" on TCM, mainly because of my interest in film history, figuring I'd watch it out of "academic" interest, but never expected to be so completely engrossed by a film 90 years old. Yes, the plot is jerky, the coincidences a big stretch for a modern audience, and for Americans hard to follow if you don't know the history of the Punic Wars, but set those issues aside and just simply enjoy the feast. I was truly caught up in the story. Not to offer a spoiler here, but the Temple of Moloch sequence blew me away. Its actually rather frightful and creepy. I wonder how many of the little kid actors who were being offered up as sacrifices, (and hard to believe that if alive today they'd all be near a hundred years old), wound up in therapy afterwards! There's even shades of Indiana Jones here with the rescue and I found myself cheering the heroes on. The siege, the special effects, even the closing scene are a treat and stand up amazingly well to modern eyes. An interesting social history point. The actress who played the evil princess undoubtedly was the definition of feminine beauty in 1914. . .things have indeed changed (for the better in my opinion!)One serious question and if there is a reader who is a historian with an answer let me know. There's a powerful scene in the Temple of Moloch where large golden hands appear above the priests, looking very much like the Hitlerian salute. Very similiar to the hand atop the helmet of one of the Tuetonic Nights in "Alexander Nevsky." Is there, just possibily a connection to the adoption of the salute twenty years later? I never knew about the actor "Maciste." I realized that here is the prototype for all the Italian "Hercules" of the 1950s that I use to love at the Saturday matinees of my childhood. The actor is truly dynamic, an Arnold Schwarznegger presence of the silent screen and in my opinion stole the entire movie. From the film history side you can see so many influences, on all that would come afterwards. While watching, its hard to believe that you are looking at images filmed before World War I, and all involved are long since gone. You see, as well, the promise of a new born art form that has become such a central part of our lives.

Kidnapped by Phoenician pirates from her Sicilian home, the infant CABIRIA grows to become involved in Rome's conflict with Carthage during the Second Punic War.Vast, intricate in plot & completely fascinating, here is one of the great silent epics which, fortunately, lives up to its legend. Full of daring rescues & breathless escapes, the film also features innovative camerawork & lighting techniques which would greatly influence D. W. Griffith & Cecil B. DeMille. (Some viewers may also see a strong resemblance between CABIRIA and the gigantic sets & bravado action highlighted in the Douglas Fairbanks swashbucklers of the 1920's.)Prolific director Giovanni Pastrone (1883-1959), using the pseudonym Piero Fosco, wrote the script and helped design the huge, elaborate sets, wanting to make his film the biggest, most thrilling epic ever produced. A million lira was budgeted for CABIRIA, a tremendous sum then, and location shooting was extended to Tunisia, Sicily & the Alps. The result was a tremendous success and ensured Pastrone's name would be enshrined in the history of world cinema. A true Renaissance Man, Pastrone left films in 1923 to devote himself to medical research.The acting is often rather ripe & sensationalized, but that was the prevailing style in Italian epics, which were doubtless influenced by Grand Opera's florid stage mannerisms. Special mention should be made of Umberto Mozzato as a heroic Roman spy, Bartolomeo Pagano as the muscular Maciste & Italia Almirante-Manzini playing a wicked Carthaginian queen.Sequences remain in the viewer's mind: the destructive eruption of Mount Etna; the truly terrifying scenes in the vile Temple of Moloch, with tiny naked children being thrown into the flames; and Hannibal's march - with elephants - over the mountains. Ancient Archimedes setting fire to the Roman fleet attacking Syracuse is unexpectedly amusing, while the movie climaxes with one of the most ostentatious suicides ever filmed.******************************There were three Punic Wars, which kept the ancient world embroiled from 264 BC until 146 BC while Rome & Carthage engaged in a death struggle to see who would emerge as the master of the Mediterranean. Battles raged in Europe & Africa, as well as on the Sea, but the last War ultimately ended with Rome's total victory and the complete & utter destruction of Carthage. The innocents sacrificed to the hideous Moloch were finally avenged.