This version was produced from the only existing print, an original nitrate print of the original version, tinted.

“Luciano Doria is nom de plume of Romolo Augusto Gizzi (1881-1961), as Roberto Chiti tells us in his widely documented dictionary of Italian directors in the silent era. We also know that he was one of the most tireless producer of treatments and scripts, if we consider that between 1916, the year when he left his newspaper to work full time for cinema, and 1929, he wrote sixty of them, of which he directed about a dozen.

Of his work, however, almost nothing has remained. Treno di piacere, produced by Fert and distributed by Pittaluga, is the only example left to us by this prolific and mysterious character: a pleasant comedy of errors based on a French ‘pochade’. The reviews of the time were not kind with this film, which probably had against it the forty-year span between its first representation on the stage and its filming, but the effort made by actors and narration ‘in order to add light and colour to the unconvincing plot’, as the reviewer of Vita Cinematografica wrote, was appreciated (24 November 1924)”.

(Vittorio Martinelli)