The Flight of Socrates

1923 ComedyAction 64 minutes Directed by Guido Brignone

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About The Flight of Socrates

Ajax startles Socrates, Annita's parrot, and the bird flies out a window. She will not marry him until the parrot is back. He follows Socrates from country to country and is wanted in each place he lands. Carlo Aldini plays Ajax. Guido Brignone directed.

Cast & crew

More about The Flight of Socrates

Italian silent comedy, released in March 1923. Eleuterio Rodolfi produced. Vasco Creti, Giuseppe Brignone, and Ruy Vismara are billed with Aldini. The Italian title is La fuga di Socrate. A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-la-fuga-di-socrate.

Themes

  • A parrot out the window
  • A marriage held for the bird
  • A chase that makes him wanted
  • Socrates
  • parrot
  • Ajax
  • Annita
  • Carlo Aldini
  • Brignone

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • Socrates is the parrot, not the philosopher.
  • The wedding waits on the bird.
  • The chase makes Ajax a fugitive without a crime he meant to commit.
  • The Italian title is La fuga di Socrate.

Scenes

  • The parrot bolts through the open window.
  • Annita sets the wedding on his return.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-la-fuga-di-socrate)