Luciana Paluzzi Filmography

L'Infermiera

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, a wealthy, widowed count has a heart attack and must have bed rest and no stress to recover. His avaricious relatives would rather see him dead. Knowing that he is a lusty fellow unable to resist a woman's charms, they hire a bombshell of a sexy nurse to meet his every Read More

The Klansman

Actors: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana, Luciana Paluzzi

Synopsis: The setting is Atoka County, Alabama -- the time is somewhere after the peak of the civil rights movement, after cities such as Birmingham, Alabama were out of the headlines. The movement is coming to the sticks, including Atoka County, and a lot of the white residents don't like it and are Read More

Medusa

Synopsis: A mysterious yacht carrying two dead bodies is found near Greece. The 1974 film was released to video as Twisted. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Amazones

Actors: Sabine Sun, Angelo Infanti, Luciana Paluzzi

Mean Mother

Actors: Clifton Brown

Synopsis: Directed by Al Adamson, Mean Mother follows a pair U.S. soldiers as they attempt to avoid serving in Vietnam. Beauregard (Clifton Brown) and Joe (Dennis Safren) part ways once they get to Europe, only to be reunited in Rome after being pursued by local mobsters. Eventually they head off to Canada Read More

La Mala Ordina

Actors: Woody Strode, Cyril Cusack, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must take matters into his own hands to have revenge. Manhunt was also re-titled The Italian Connection to steal thunder from its French counterpart. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Tragic Ceremony

Actors: Camille Keaton

Synopsis: Italian horror icon Riccardo Freda directs I Spit on Your Grave star Camille Keaton in this gory shocker concerning four hippies who seek shelter from a summer storm in a seemingly-abandoned villa, only to realize that they have stumbled into a satanic sacrifice. Frightened away by the gruesome Read More

Black Gunn

Actors: Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Jim Brown, Tommy Davis, Rick Ferrell, Jay Montgomery, Mark Tapscott

Synopsis: This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, a Vietnam veteran, is murdered by gangsters, Brown gathers some of his brother's fellow veterans and an assortment of ex-convicts to get brutal revenge. Martin Landau, Luciana Paluzzi, and Jeannie Bell Read More

Come Together

Actors: Luciana Paluzzi, Tony Anthony

Synopsis: Tony (Tony Anthony) is an American living in Italy who works, when he has to, by doing stunts for Italian filmmakers. Most of the time, he entertains himself by romancing the girls, especially tourists. In this romantic tragedy, Tony simultaneously charms Lisa (Luciana Paluzzi) and Ann (Rosemary Dexter Read More

Man of Legend

Synopsis: Peter Strauss, six years removed from his Rich Man Poor Man stardom, stars in the Italian-Spanish Man of Legend. Strauss plays a WW I-era German soldier, who barely escapes being wrongly executed as a spy. He escapes to the French Foreign Legion, then enjoys a torrid romance with Tina Aumont Read More

Powderkeg

Synopsis: Originally a pilot for a television series, this western centers on a wild pair of detectives who are hired to bring train hijackers to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Conexion Oriental

Synopsis: In this mystery, a reporter looks into an Asian crime syndicate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Soldier Named Joe

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Actors: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi, Bill Fraser

Synopsis: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City thrusts several "name" actors into the specialized world of Jules Verne. Six 19th-century shipwreck victims are rescued by a modernistic submarine. The skipper is Captain Nemo (Robert Ryan), who had not died at the end of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as viewers Read More

99 Women

Actors: Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Rohm

Synopsis: Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original version, is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue Read More

La Morte non ha sesso

Actors: John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Hoffmann, Renate Kasche, Tullio Altamura

Synopsis: Cult director Massimo Dallamano made this surprisingly tedious thriller about a murder-for-hire plot. Lisa (Luciana Paluzzi) is the trampy wife of a jealous detective named Franz (John Mills), who has underworld connections from his job on the narcotics squad. Lisa's shady background and Read More

A Thousand and One Nights

Synopsis: The Spanish Thousand and One Nights brings a new slant to an old story. Several Arabian Nights legends are blended together into a single coherent continuity. Evidently certain that this sort of stuff was too hokey to take seriously, the producers handle the material with tongue firmly in cheek. Read More

Pas De Roses Pour OSS 117

Actors: John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Agent OSS 117 (John Gavin) is the American secret agent who battles an evil organization that carries out assassinations. He poses as a killer to infiltrate the organization led by the macabre Major (Curt Jurgens). He draws an assignment that sends him to the Middle East where his target is a Read More

The Green Slime

Actors: Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Bud Widom, Ted Gunther

Synopsis: This shoestring-budget science fiction drama finds astronauts plagued by a mysterious green slime that clings to the men's backs, then turns into tentacled, red-eyed creatures that kill their victims. Jack Rankin (Robert Horton) is sent to a space station commanded by Vince Elliot (Richard Read More

Chuka

Actors: Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, James Whitmore

Synopsis: The title character (Rod Taylor) is a drifting gunslinger, who enters a Southwestern fort and immediately becomes embroiled with its commander (John Mills). In the end, the wanderer helps the fort guard against attacks from Indians. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

One-Eyed Soldiers

Synopsis: An old soldier, lying on his deathbed, whispers a clue to the location of a fortune in a Swiss bank, and it sets off an international mad dash to recover the $15 million. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Venetian Affair

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Karl Heinz Böhm, Ed Asner, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: In this spy thriller, Robert Vaughn, who then starring on TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., plays Bill Fenner, an ex-CIA agent who is called upon by his former boss, Frank Rosenfeld (Ed Asner), to investigate an apparent murder-suicide in Vienna. An American diplomat exploded a bomb at a peace Read More

My Wife's Enemy

Synopsis: In this Italian melodrama, a soccer referee has more passion for the game than he does for his wife. The man's father doesn't help as he dislikes both the sport and his wife. The couple continues to drift apart and ends up having several affairs. They then attend the same soccer match and end up Read More

O.S.S. 117: Double Agent

Synopsis: Novelist Jean De Bruce's "Bondish" secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bruce--alias O.S.S. 117--is portrayed by John Gavin in O.S.S. 117: Double Agent. De la Bruce disguises himself as a bank robber in order to get the goods on an international criminal organization. He learns that the criminals Read More

Questa Volta Parliamo Di Uomini

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Luciana Paluzzi, Milena Vukotic, Margaret Lee, Patrizia de Clara

Synopsis: Just before he became an even greater movie star, Nino Manfredi starred in a number of less well-known films. Among his best efforts from the end of this period is this film, where he plays four different kinds of male scoundrels in a series of smaller stories, all written and directed by Lina Wertmuller Read More

To Trap a Spy

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Luciana Paluzzi, Pat Crowley, Fritz Weaver, William Marshall, Will Kuluva

Synopsis: This film is essentially the original pilot for the popular 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It was expanded to 92 minutes and shot in color for theatrical release. Robert Vaughn plays the master spy and adept action hero Napoleon Solo. He works for a shadowy supra-governmental Read More

Thunderball

Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rick van Nutter

Synopsis: Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). This time, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. hijacks a NATO nuclear bomber, hiding the bombs under the ocean depths and Read More

Muscle Beach Party

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: The Beach Party Gang meets a coterie of muscle-men who try to take over their spot on the beach in Muscle Beach Party. Surfing sensations Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) have their security threatened when Flex Martian (Rock Stevens) and a collection of well-oiled Read More

La Vice et la Vertu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: The "vice and virtue" of the title of this wartime drama directed by Roger Vadim are exemplified in the personae of two very attractive women: Juliette (Annie Girardot) and Justine (Catherine Deneuve). Juliette is a collaborator and Justine supports the resistance movement, yet when her husband is Read More

Bonanza: The Dowry

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Luciana Paluzzi

Synopsis: The Cartwrights take a hand in matters when bandits reportedly steal the $100,000 dowry intended for the wedding of Michele Dubois (Luciana Paluzzi), the daughter of self-proclaimed land baron Alexander Dubois (Steven Geray). While the Cartwright sons stand guard over the injured DuBois during his Read More

The Reluctant Saint

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, Mark Damon

Synopsis: Directed by Edward Dmytryk, The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he surprises a local bishop by his Read More

Return to Peyton Place

Actors: Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor, Tuesday Weld, Robert Sterling

Synopsis: If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all the roles, combining several of them into existing characters. Carol Lynley is the heroine this time, and she leaves Peyton Place for New York to write a book about the Read More

The Indian Tomb

Actors: Debra Paget, Paul Christian, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Sabine Bethmann

Synopsis: This unrealistic, routine drama is the second half of a story that began with Der Tiger von Eschnapur. This sequel was later cut slightly, combined with the first story then released in English as Journey to the Lost City. Both halves were written by Thea von Harbou and the 1959 films are both Read More

Der Tiger von Eschnapur

Actors: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Claus Holm, Sabine Bethmann

Synopsis: This is the third and least successful version of screenwriter Thea von Harbou's original story, Das Indische Grabmal, written around 1919. Her ex-husband, Fritz Lang directs this routine, outdated drama about an exotic dancer named Seetha (Debra Paget) who is hired by Chandra (Walther Reyer), an Read More

Hercules Unchained

Actors: Steve Reeves, Sylvia Lopez, Sylva Koscina, Gabriele Antonini

Synopsis: Steve Reeves' second (and last) film portrayal of Hercules is, in certain ways, better than his first. The plot this time is drawn from the legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes, which are most familiar to audiences through the Theban plays of Sophocles. The movie opens with Hercules, his Read More

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Thorley Walters, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as a British diplomat and Peter Sellers as a nasty, vile Prime Minister on the island, tend to overshadow the roles they are playing. Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas) is sent to Read More

Hercules

Actors: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici, Gianna Maria Canale

Synopsis: Heralding a decade of Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, Hercules -- as it's been known in the United States since its 1959 release -- draws most of its plot from the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Hercules, the half-immortal son of Jupiter (or Zeus) rescues Iole, the daughter of Pelias Read More

Tank Force

Actors: Victor Mature, Anthony Newley, Bonar Colleano, Luciana Paluzzi

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, five brave Allies endeavor to escape from an Italian POW camp in North Africa. They succeed, but their trials are not over as they must still cross the burning Libyan desert to get safely behind Allied lines. En route they are captured by a Nazi-loving sheik. The sheik Read More

Sea Fury

Actors: Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Gregoire Aslan, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis: Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel, while Stanley Baker is his second in command. The two men battle over the affections of South American beauty Luciana Paluzzi. Baker has the advantage, but Luciana's father Read More

Plucking the Daisy

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Bardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Darry Cowl

Synopsis: Because of star Brigitte Bardot's single fleeting disrobing scene in the French farce Please, Mr. Balzac!, the film was retitled Mademoiselle Striptease by one enterprising American distributor. Essentially, this is a harmless little escapade in which Bardot, escaping the strictures of her Read More

My Seven Little Sins

Synopsis: An old French count who keeps an index of all his past loves is surprised one day by a young woman who claims to be his daughter. He welcomes her and treats her well, but six more girls arrive with the same story, making the count suspicious. Meanwhile, his son returns from a scientific expedition Read More