The ticket of a thousand

Mary Cleo Tarlarini and Eleuterio Rodolfi, favourites of the early Italian screens, are clandestine lovers. A “one thousand banknote” passes from hand to hand, risking to reveal their affair. An example of mischievous comedy, a genre that Rodolfi often starred and sometimes directed.
The video is a copy from the film print preserved by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, from a positive tinted ni…