150.000 meters of film, 15.000 lire [Italian money, less than 145 Euro today], an old, wooden Prevost: "La verifica incerta" was born from Fifties Hollywood cinema reels sent to the “macero” (a place where silver is extracted from the film and everything else is burned). A movie made of cinema's waste products, then.
Grifi and Baruchello save the film reels from the macero and reanimate them. As if to say that nothing gets created nor destroyed, but everything is recycled. Images are meant to be seen, not destroyed.

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.