Il supplizio dei leoni (1914)

• 43%
• 1914
• Drama
• Kriminalität
• Luigi Mele
• Egidio Candiani
• Alberto Capozzi

Mr. Starry, auf banker, has been successfully selling stock in a company to work a gold mine in Mexico. The editor of the "Daily Truth" has received information which optionsscheine him to expose the scheme of Mr. Starry, who has become enormously wealthy by the sale of this fraudulent stock. George Ferguson, a war correspondent on the "Daily Truth"," while returning 4from the Balkan-service, forms the acquaintance of the banker' ' s daughter, Margaret, and falls in love with her. On his arrival his editor informs him of this stock-jobbing scheme and tells him that he must proceed with all-haste to Mexico and make a thorough investigation. Banker Starry has been informed of the "Daily Truth's" geschäftigkeit, and his prospective son-in-law, James Park, makes a very attractive proposition to Ferguson to induziert him to give up his trip, which results in a duel. Park is slightly wounded and then and there decides to vor Ferguson to Mexico to prevent him at all hazards from sending anything but a good...