Old Guard

Old Guard (1934)

Drama

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.

Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Writers: Alessandro Blasetti, Leo Bomba, Giuseppe Zucca, Guido Albertini.

Casts

	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
	Alfredo Varelli as il terzo squadrista
	Andrea Checchi as Pompeo
	Ugo Sasso as Uno squadrista
	Memmo Carotenuto as Infermiere

Crew