Tontolini's Violin - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Penniless, with a rich and miserly uncle, this is the situation of Tontolini who nevertheless manages to get money from the old usurer. Tontolini transforms himself first into a poor artist who pawns his violin with the usurer for the ...See morePenniless, with a rich and miserly uncle, this is the situation of Tontolini who nevertheless manages to get money from the old usurer. Tontolini transforms himself first into a poor artist who pawns his violin with the usurer for the modest sum of one franc, and then into a rich foreigner who offers 5,000 francs for the same instrument. When the artist returns to ask for his pledge, the moneylender thinks he is making an excellent deal by making him accept 1,000 francs for the old horsehair. Tontolini does not fail to enlighten his good uncle about the trick he played on him. Written by Cine-Journal - October 14, 1911 See less