Anna Maria Pier AngeliFilmography

Addio, Alexandra

Actors: Glenn Saxon

Synopsis: This dubbed, Italian-made, X-rated film is somewhat pornographic. Elizabeth (Pier Angeli) is on the outs with her husband Stephen (Glenn Saxon), and they are nearing a divorce. Wealthy heiress and family friend Alexandra (Colette Descombe) invites the couple to her country home, hoping to reunite Read More

Code Name Red Roses

Synopsis: James Daly plays an American special operative who goes behind enemy lines during WW II. His mission: sabotage. Pier Angeli, Michael Wilding and Peter Van Eyck number among Daly's possible friends and foes. It's familiar territory, but suspenseful. We prefer the film's original title: Red Roses Read More

Every Bastard a King

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, William Berger, Oded Kotler, Yehoram Gaon, Ori Levy

Synopsis: This Israeli-made feature was originally titled Kol Mamzer Melech. Dramatizing an actual event that occurred during the Six-Day War of 1967, the film top-bills Italian actress Pier Angeli, but the central character is a pilot named Ralphi Cohen (played by Oded Kotler). Hoping to bring peace to his Read More

Rey de Africa

Actors: Ty Hardin, Anna Maria Pier Angeli

Synopsis: Set in the wilds of South Africa, this Italian adventure chronicles the travails of three fugitive killers who search the jungle for a fabulous gold mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Berlino - Appuntamento per le Spie

Actors: Brett Halsey, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Dana Andrews

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a leading American spy has a miniature camera surgically implanted in his eye, unbeknownst to him, and with it photographs secrets for the Russians, helping them gather information about a newly created death ray. The scientist who created it knew the secret could fall Read More

M.M.M. 83

Synopsis: Dependable American character actor Fred Beir is afforded a rare starring role in this Italian spy yarn. Beir plays an 007-ish secret agent on the trail of a murderer. The victim was a prominent scientist who may have been carrying secret papers. Beir nearly ends up on a slab himself before Read More

Battle of the Bulge

Actors: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Telly Savalas, George Montgomery

Synopsis: In December of 1944, the Allied high command is convinced that German forces in Belgium are in a low state of readiness, and perhaps even about to withdraw. Only one officer on the front lines, intelligence specialist Lt. Col. Kiley (Henry Fonda), believes otherwise -- that the Germans are Read More

Banco à Bangkok (pour OSS 117)

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Dominique Wilms

Synopsis: In this Italian mystery-adventure, a government agent is assigned to look into a mysterious outbreak of a deadly virus in Southeast Asia. While attending a party, he meets an enemy agent and his pretty sister. Later the enemy captures the agent and his own sister who has fallen for the American. Read More

Sodom and Gomorrah

Actors: Stewart Granger, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimée, Rossana Podestà

Synopsis: This 153-minute Biblical epic about salt and sin is directed by Robert Aldrich and has enough dynamic interactions between its chief protagonists to sustain interest in-between climactic scenes. Stewart Granger is Lot, the Hebrew leader who takes his people to camp in the Valley of Jordan only to Read More

White Slave Ship

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Ivan Desny, Armand Mestral

Synopsis: In this adventure, a dozen imprisoned women are sent to America to become slaves. The year is 1675, and the women must sail aboard the ill-fated Albatross. A few well-heeled passengers are also aboard the ship, and among them is a political prisoner. Somehow the prisoners escape and commandeer the Read More

S.O.S. Pacific

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok, Eddie Constantine

Synopsis: Five passengers on a seaplane find that a crash has stranded them on an island used for nuclear testing in this disaster movie. Just to get to the island, they had to endure many hardships including a hurricane, a gun-battle, shark-infested seas, and a fire on the plane. Panic ensues when the Read More

I Moschettieri del Mare

Synopsis: The Italian Musketeers of the Sea transports cast and crew to Maracaibo, then barely takes advantage of the attendant scenic wonders before settling into its creaky plot. The story has something to do with locating vast amounts of gold, and the greed and treachery resulting in the race for the Read More

The Angry Silence

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee, Travers (Alfred Burke), begins complaining about conditions at the plant and stirs up disharmony among his fellow workers. Tom thinks that there's something fishy about Travers Read More

Merry Andrew

Actors: Danny Kaye, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Salvatore Baccaloni, Noel Purcell, Robert Coote

Synopsis: Though Merry Andrew is more subdued than earlier Danny Kaye efforts, it's still a lot of fun. Kaye is cast as Andrew Larabee, a mild-mannered but highly unorthodox archeology professor at a British boy's school. While on an expedition in Italy, Andrew allows a traveling circus to pitch camp on his Read More

The Vintage

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr, Michèle Morgan, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: There's a curious, unsettling "feel" to MGM's The Vintage, perhaps because of its curiously selected cast. Mel Ferrer and John Kerr play a couple of Italian brothers, Giancarlo and Ernesto Barandero, who escape to France after Ernesto kills a man. Attaining jobs in a vineyard run by Louis Morel Read More

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Actors: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas, Jim Backus

Synopsis: A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy rancher Chuck Rodwell (Dan Dailey), who takes a Vegas vacation with his mother (Agnes Moorehead). At the same time, ballerina Maria Corvier (Cyd Charisse) also arrives in Las Read More

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Actors: Paul Newman, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you will be able to accept Somebody Up Their Likes Me as one of the more accomplished movie biopics of the 1950s. Based on Graziano's autobiography (co-written with Rowland Read More

Port Afrique

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Philip Carey, Dennis Price, Eugene Deckers, James Hayter

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Bernard Victor Dyer, Port Afrique offers an unusual screen romantic team in the form of two-fisted Phil Carey and ethereally beautiful Pier Angeli. Carey plays Rip Reardon, a WW2 veteran who returns to his "second home" in Morocco for a reunion with his wife. Upon arrival Read More

Mam'zelle Nitouche

Actors: Fernandel, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt, Renee Devillers

Synopsis: Mam'zelle Nitouche represented Fernandel's only 1954 film vehicle. The horse-faced comic actor is cast as Celestin, an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular Read More

The Flame and the Flesh

Actors: Lana Turner, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Carlos Thompson, Bonar Colleano, Charles Goldner

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Europe, Flame and the Flesh is nothing more nor less than a vehicle for the glamorous Lana Turner. The plot finds Madeline (Ms. Turner) stranded in Italy with nary a lire to her name. But this doesn't bother her, because she's always depended upon the kindness of Read More

The Silver Chalice

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: Paul Newman made his screen debut in the gloriously nonsensical costume epic The Silver Chalice. Freely adapted from a novel by Thomas B. Costain, the film casts Newman as Basil, a first century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery by his wicked uncle. Transported to Rome, Basil manages to Read More

Sombrero

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo, Cyd Charisse

Synopsis: This tuneful romantic melodrama is set in a tiny Mexican village and is comprised of three storylines. One tale concerns a pair of young lovers from rival villages who will not be able to marry until a long time feud is ended. In another tale, an heir to a large fortune falls in love with an Read More

The Story of Three Loves

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Farley Granger

Synopsis: This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous Lover," James Mason plays Charles Coudray, a well-known ballet director. When someone asks Coudray why he staged his masterpiece, "Astarte," only once, he tells the story Read More

The Devil Makes Three

Actors: Gene Kelly, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan, Claus Clausen

Synopsis: Gene Kelly tackles a rare non-singing or dancing role in this post-war drama. Kelly plays Capt. Jeff Eliot, whose life was saved during World War II when a German family rescued him after his plane was shot down over Munich. In 1948, Eliot travels to Germany to thank the Lehrt Family for their Read More

Domani e un Altro Giorno

Actors: Anna Maria Ferrero

Synopsis: Leonid Moguy's Domani e un Altro Giorno (Tomorrow is Another Day) was an unofficial follow-up to his 1950 effort Domani e Troppo Tardi (Tomorrow is Too Late). Both films were "thesis" pictures, but whereas the first film dealt with sex education, the second tackles the even more delicate subject Read More

Teresa

Actors: Anna Maria Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Bill Mauldin, Richard Bishop, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: In Teresa, director Fred Zinnemann adopts the same quasi-documentary approach he'd used in The Search (1948). Lensed on location in Italy and New York, the film introduces Pier Angeli in the title role, and co-stars three male newcomers: John Ericson, Ralph Meeker and Rod Steiger. Teresa is the Read More

The Light Touch

Actors: Stewart Granger, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Italy, The Light Touch served as a showcase for MGM's newest female star Pier Angeli. The title refers to the nimble-fingered technique utilized by art thief Sam Conride (Stewart Granger). Sam is a cog in the wheel of the operation controlled by illegal art peddler Felix Read More

Domani è troppo tardi

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Lois Maxwell, Gabrielle Dorziat, Gino Leurini

Synopsis: Domani e Troppo Tardi is the first of two Leonide Moguy films dealing with the travails of postwar Italian life; the second was Domani e un altro Giorno. The story concerns the efforts to provide a proper sex education for youngsters. Progressive schoolteachers Landi (Vittorio de Sica) and Anna (Lois Maxwell Read More

Cry Chicago

Synopsis: In this gangster film, set in Chicago during the 1930s, a tough-guy employs murder and blackmail to take-over the local syndicate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More