I topi grigi 8: Mezza Quaresima

The Grey Mice 8: Midland. IT 1918. D+starring Emilio Ghione. 874 m /16 fps/ 48 min. Grand piano: Gabriel Thibaudeau. Viewed in Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato, 5 July 2008. - The final episode of the morning serial. Za la Mort's strangeness almost makes him lose a trial. Masked men cut the switches of the electric power station. Grigione steals the box with the million from the stash and hides it in his own hiding place, a secret well shaft. With the handwriting and the paper stock Za la Mort proves to the district attorney that the Countess is behind the inheritance fraud and the murder frame-up. Grigione´s bloody hand print leads Za and his gang on his trail. They meet him in the wild Folies Dramatiques masked ball. The "mummies" in their caskets are awakened by the best kissers. Grigione's masked lady companion is switched with Za la Vie. His stash is finally discovered in the climax, where the crook falls into the shaft and Za la Mort and Za la Vie decide to dedicate the inheritance to the abandoned ones. (Leo has perished in the shipwreck.) - Certainly a wild and weird serial.