Vittorio Rossi Pianelli discovers his wife, Pina Menichelli has a child from an affair a couple of years before their marriage. He turns a cold shoulder to her and goes back to work on his military inventions with his adopted son and protege, Alberto Nepoti. But foreign spies in the person of Arnaldo Arnaldi weave a web of money and threads about them.

Based on a play by Dumas fils,it's slow to set up, and Signorina Menchelli doesn't begin to chew the scenery until the fourth act, when her actual feelings make hairpin turns from lust for Nepoti to greed, to loyalty. It'sa great, confusing mess of emotions,and she carries it off with one shoulder bared. She. Had been a child actress from a family of actors, making her film debut in 1913. Married and separated from her husband, she. Traded on thie image to become a star in 1916. On her husband's death, she Baron Carlo D'Amato, founder of Rinascimento Film, in 1924, retired from acting, and refused all interviews until her death in 1984 at the age of 94.

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