Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures,[1][2] includes Italian newsreel footage[3][4] of the Fascists’ March on Rome in 1922, the Lateran Treaty between Italy and The Holy See, engineering projects in Italy and North Africa, and excerpts of speeches by Mussolini.
He is a great figure, perhaps one of the greatest in the world today", but the film showed "only a glorified Mussolini".
[6] Hearst columnist Arthur Brisbane wrote: "Nicholas Schenck said every intelligent man should see the Columbia Pictures film of Mussolini speaking and in action.
In the faces of the crowds and in their frenzied applause you see Mussolini's absolute hold on the people of Italy."
Brisbane thought it demonstrated the "role that talking pictures are destined to play in education".