Luciano PigozziFilmography

Cop Game

Savage Island

Actors: Linda Blair, Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Christina Lai, Leon Askin

Synopsis: Ostensibly starring American actress Linda Blair, who actually only spends about ten minutes on screen, this exploitation film was originally a Spanish-Italian exploitation film (Orinoco-Prison of Sex) that was re-edited with the new Blair footage inserted periodically to make it appeal to Read More

Richard II

Actors: Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: A quarrel erupts between the Duke of Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke (Jon Finch), and the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray (Richard Owens). According to Bolingbroke, Mowbray misappropriated government money and plotted the death of the Duke of Gloucester. Mowbray denies the charges, accusing Read More

Escape from Hell

Actors: Christina Lai, Luciano Pigozzi

Synopsis: In this exploitation adventure, a pair of curvaceous women bust out of a jungle prison to escape further torment at the hands of their cruel and brutal warden. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Love at First Sight

Crew: Editor

Actors: Mary Ann McDonald, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Mallet, Fr. George Murray, Barry Morse

Synopsis: Love at First Sight was filmed before Dan Aykroyd gained fame on Saturday Night Live, but released afterward. This Canadian serio-comedy stars Aykroyd as a blind man who wants to marry lovely Mary Ann McDonald. Alas, McDonald's redneck dad has a prejudice against the handicapped, and refuses to Read More

Three Men in a Boat

Actors: Tim Curry, Michael Palin

Synopsis: Made for British television, the 1975 Three Men in a Boat is the latest filmization of the timeworn Jerome K. Jerome comic novel. The plot remains the same: a trio of Englishmen take a boat excursion along the Thames during a two-week holiday. The trio experiences several amusing misadventures Read More

Mussolini: Ultimo Atto

Actors: Henry Fonda, Lisa Gastoni, Franco Nero, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Rod Steiger portrays Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in this internationally produced "how the mighty have fallen" biopic. In the waning days of the war, the once-strutting Il Duce hides from his pursuers like a common thief. He's hoping to fall into the hands of his former Axis comrades or the Read More

Sieben Tote in den Augen der Katze

Actors: Luciano Pigozzi, George Conrad, Jane Birkin, Françoise Christophe, Venantino Venantini

Synopsis: In this horror movie, residents of a remote Scottish town fight a strange and terrifying beast that has been gobbling them all up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pulp

Actors: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini

Synopsis: A year after Get Carter (1971), director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunited for this comic crime thriller. Caine stars as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels, living in Rome and cranking one noir book after another. King is approached by Ben Dinuccio (Lionel Stander) Read More

Human Cobras

La Spada Normanna

The Devil With Seven Faces

Actors: Carroll Baker, Stephen Boyd, George Hilton

Synopsis: Carroll Baker, the blond starlet best known for her role in Baby Doll, ended her career in a number of Italian giallo thrillers including A Quiet Place to Kill, Paranoia, The Fourth Victim, and this giallo-tinged crime film from director Osvaldo Civirani. Baker plays a dual role as Read More

The Price of Death

Synopsis: In this western, a brave hero helps a man wrongly accused of killing a saloon girl in a small Texas town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Crook

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christine Lelouch, Charles Denner, Danièle Delorme, Judith Magre

Synopsis: Simon (Jean-Claude Trintignant) gets out of prison and summons his old friend Charles (Charles Gerard) and Martine (Christine Lelouch), his one time lover now married to a wealthy man. The three kidnap a little boy and then blackmail the bank where the boy's father works to pay the ransom of one Read More

Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi

Actors: William Berger, Jolanda Modio

Synopsis: One of seventeen sequels to Gianfranco Parolini's 1968 spaghetti western Sartana, this slow-moving entry has very little, if anything, to do with the series. The story concerns gunman Lee Calloway (William Berger), who agrees to help three outlaws break out of jail in exchange for half of their Read More

E Dio disse a Caino

Synopsis: Don't let the title mislead you, this film doesn't come from the Bible Belt; it's actually a western where a trigger-happy quickdraw guy has to draw upon all his talent just to stay alive. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sabata

Actors: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Pedro Sanchez, Nick Jordan, Linda Véras, Franco Ressel

Synopsis: Spaghetti Western fans used to the likes of Django and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly might be taken by surprise when watching Sabata. True, the film does star spaghetti Western star Lee Van Cleef as the tight-lipped hero of the title, but it has a very different feel from the genre's traditional, Sergio Leone Read More

Nude ... Si Muore

Actors: Michael Rennie, Mark Damon, Eleanora Brown, Sally Smith

Synopsis: Plenty of campy humor enlivens Antonio Margheriti's tame giallo thriller about murders at a prestigious girl's boarding school. Mark Damon (The Fall of the House of Usher) is the studly riding instructor having an affair with one of the students (Eleonora Bron), an heiress who is the 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

A 007 Sfida ai Killers

Actors: Richard Harrison, Dominique Boschero, Wandisa Guida

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, an American CIA agent must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect. Unfortunately, they died for their efforts and the film fell into the greedy hands of a Lebanese business magnate who is Read More

Blood and Black Lace

Actors: Luciano Pigozzi, Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini, Mary Arden, Claude Dantes

Synopsis: Director Mario Bava's second thriller revolves around a fashion salon owned by wealthy Cristina (Eva Bartok) and her greedy lover Max (Cameron Mitchell). The salon is a front for cocaine-trafficking and blackmail, so when model Isabella (Lea Kruger) is viciously strangled, leaving a detailed diary Read More

The Whip and the Body

Actors: Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Harriet Medin, Luciano Pigozzi, Haniet White, Jacques Herlin, Tony Kendall

Synopsis: Marred by controversy at the time of its release, this horror fantasy from Italy's legendary horror director Mario Bava centers on the twisted desires of a nobleman's son (Christopher Lee). Lee is ostracized by his father for his dalliances with a servant girl (who later commits suicide), but is Read More

Two Women

Actors: Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or her English-language "performance" was often dubbed in by an anonymous third party. Such was not the case of Sophia Loren in Two Women (La Ciociara), who did her own Read More

Il Generale Della Rovere

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon

Synopsis: With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during the German occupation of Milan. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli, the story is true. Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) and his cohorts have decided to plant a spy in the Read More