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Actors: Benedetto Casillo, Silvio Ceccato, Caterina Boratto, Renato Scarpa, Riccardo Cucciolla
Synopsis: This three-part romantic comedy illustrates that people are never too old to fall in love and often act too old when they are young. Silvio Ceccato plays a man who believes he is Socrates. His concerned wife hires two actors of questionable talent to play his "disciples." Soon the wife and the Read More
Actors: Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, Erland Josephson, Giancarlo Giannini, Donald Hewlett
Synopsis: This is an Italian comedy about a runaway, incognito Pope who makes his way to a village for a temporary stay and tries to bring a few good works to fruition while there. After Pope Leo XIV gets locked out of the Vatican garden one day, he opts for taking off on a small escape from official and Read More
Actors: Anita Ekberg, Paola Morra, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Giulio Berruti's unusual cult horror film casts former sex symbol Anita Ekberg as Sister Gertrude, a nun working in a mental institution. Gertrude is clearly insane, and takes a great deal of morphine for her self-diagnosed cancer. She goes to town and picks up men, seduces a younger nun (Paola Read More
Synopsis: The steely-mouthed Jaws, a character previously featured in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, receives a thinly-veiled reincarnation in this picture, rechristened Golob and again played by the inimitable Richard Kiel. With the help of several companions, including a robotic Read More
Actors: Lino Capolicchio, Stefania Casini, Craig Hill, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: This well-handled giallo thriller was directed by Antonio Bido (Il Gatto dagli Occhi di Giada). After a young girl is murdered by a mysterious stranger, the young Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes home to Venice to visit his brother (Craig Hill), a priest with many enemies. As people start dying Read More
Synopsis: In this drama an Italian lawyer comes back home to a real surprise concealed in his closet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Massimo Ranieri, Lina Polito, Enrico Maria Salerno, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: When the Germans take 20 men from his village for possible execution in reprisal for the bombing death of a German soldier, an upright young policeman, who has avoided politics and the Resistance, takes the blame for the incident so that his countrymen's lives may be spared. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More
Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Raymond Lovelock, Carlo Cattaneo, Angela Goodwin
Synopsis: A young med student is doing his grad work at the local morgue when a series of mysterious and unexplained deaths (ascribed to suicide) surround her. The sudden influx of corpses is more than this fellow can handle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime and sexual scandal. Many of the characters and episodes are based on incidents which made Italian newspaper headlines in that period. Throughout, it implies that one important Read More
Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: A married couple is haunted by a series of mysterious occurrences after the death of their young daughter in this enigmatic chiller. Based on a story by Daphne du Maurier, whose works inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and The Birds, the film centers on Laura and John Baxter (Donald Sutherland Read More
Actors: Dominique Labourier, Luigi Diberti, Gaby Sylvia, Jean-Claude Dauphin
Synopsis: This drama tells the tale of union woes at a French factory, and of the single mom who gives her all for the union cause. Pierrette (Dominique Labourier) is the young mother, and she somehow has time to have an affair with her handsome co-worker who is nicknamed Beau Masque (Luigi Diberti). All Read More
Synopsis: Filmed in Greece and Italy, Cool Million was the pilot film for a shortlived 1972 TV series which ran as a recurring feature of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. James Farentino stars as private eye Jefferson Keays, who takes cases only on the proviso that he is to be paid $1 million if he Read More
Synopsis: American entrepreneur Jerry Warren is credited with the direction of Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why. Judging by Warren's cinematic track record, however, one comes to the conclusion that his "direction" consisted of re-editing the scenes and supervising the English-language dubbing. Filmed in Read More
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
Actors: Romy Schneider, Ugo Tognazzi
Synopsis: Here the director adapts his own novel about Mira (Romy Schneider), a firebrand of a woman, who moves from being a ferocious labor organizer to being the mistress of her town's factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi). Labor negotiations provide a background for their brief but devastating romantic affair. Read More
Actors: Bruno Corazzari, Gianni Garko, Piero Lulli, Nieves Navarro, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Prolific filmmaker Giuliano Carmineo directed this fourth sequel to Se Incontri Sartana Prega per la Tua Morte (1968) under the pseudonym "Anthony Ascott." Gianni Garko is Sartana, the mythical, almost supernatural avenger whose gun is his justice. This time, Sartana helps a gambler named Grand Read More
Actors: Suzy Kendall, Pierre Olaf, Kenneth Griffith, Stuart Margolin
Synopsis: Rooney (Don Gordon) is the career card shark who is set up by Del Isolla (Massimo Serato) for a big loss in this fast-paced gambling story. Traveling on a luxury liner, an international group of gamblers conspire to turn the tables on each other. Rooney wants to win but is more than satisfied to Read More
Actors: Joan Collins, Mathieu Carrière, Antonio Centa, Faith Domergue, Frank Wolff
Synopsis: A wealthy shipbuilding family falls apart in the wake of labor unrest and economic crisis. Lorenzo (Mathieu Carriere) is the son who returns home from college and falls in love with his mother, hates his father even more, and makes love to an older family friend Roberta (Joan Collins). After being Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer, Gila Golan, Karin Skorreso, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman stars in this uneven blend of sex and comedy where animals attempt to take over the world. Satirical jabs are taken at the advertising, politics and heroes. Gassman plays a model who makes his career by appearing on billboards and loses a battle of wits with a gorilla in a zoo. Read More
Actors: Sandra Milo, Enrico Maria Salerno, Lydia Alfonsi, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Aldo (Giulio Platone) is a henpecked husband who takes time off from his business ventures to enjoy a night in Rome in this comedy drama. He meets Debra (Sandra Milo) and brings her back to his apartment. After she has a conversation with a mystery man named Rossano, she kills herself. Aldo tries Read More
Actors: Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Massimo Serato, Franco Nero
Synopsis: In this campy Italian sci-fi adventure wicked aliens from outer space abduct and miniaturize Earth's leaders to make it easier to destroy the planet until a courageous hero appears to fight against him and his legion of skintight leather-clad robot women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni
Synopsis: In this low-budget sci-fi adventure, Martian light creatures employ mind control to overtake the Earth. Fortunately, Earthlings are tougher than they look and quickly send the evil beings back to Mars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Award-winning Italian writer/director Mario Camerini, who successfully bucked the "neorealist" movement of the 1940s, continued operating in a strictly commercial vein with 1966's Delitto Quasi Perfetto. The plot is sheer gossamer, handled with artistry: a journalist, stumbling upon a plot to Read More
Synopsis: Hypnosis is a psychological thriller reminiscent of themes found in Magic and Dead of Night. Erik (Jean Sorel) is the assistant in a ventriloquist/hypnotist act starring Magda (Elenora Rossi-Drago) and her fiancé Georg (Massimo Serato) Because of his secret love for Magna, Erik kills off anyone Read More
Actors: Tony Russell, Helga Liné, Massimo Serato, Gerard Tichy, Renato Baldini
Synopsis: Set in fourth century Italy, this sword and sandal adventure retells the story of Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai as it follows the exploits of two brothers who gather a gallant group of ex-galley slaves and sail off to the Middle East to enact the downfall of a tyrant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Massimo Serato, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: Based on an interesting plot from a novel by Robert Sheckley, this movie features tongue-in-cheek performances by Andress and Mastroianni, which are responsible for its status as a minor cult favorite. Set in the 21st century, this science fiction movie depicts a society in which population Read More
Actors: Guy Madison
Synopsis: In this western, Wyatt Earp helps a young woman thwart the evil plans of a greedy mine owner. To do so, Earp masquerades as a drifter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Mark Forest, Yvonne Furneaux, Massimo Serato, Pierre Cressoy
Synopsis: This is an interesting entry in the Italian muscleman genre of the early '60s. Set in the wake of the destruction of Troy, Lion of Thebes tells of Helen's flight from the vengeance of the Greeks, in the company of her loyal protector Arion (Mark Forest). She falls into the hands of the pharaoh Read More
Synopsis: Though "Maciste" is a popular muscleman character in Italy, his name doesn't always bring in the crowds in other countries. That's why the US title of the Italian Maciste Against the Czar is Atlas Against the Czar. By any name, the hero is played by Steve Reeves clone Kirk Morris. Maciste's task Read More
Actors: Gordon Scott, Ombretta Colli, Gloria Milland, Mimmo Palmara
Actors: Pierre Brice, Moira Orfei, Maria Grazia Spina, Andrea Aurelia
Synopsis: In this epic adventure set in the 15th century, King Navarre dies and leaves his two nieces to fight over the throne. Naturally one of the girls is good, and the other evil. The two are at an impasse that can only be broken when one of the women can find the treasure chest containing the king's Read More
Actors: Pierre Brice, Helene Chanel, Daniele Vargas, Giselle Arden
Synopsis: This is an Italian-French period costume piece retelling the Zorro legend, convincingly set in 1600s Spain. Pierre Brice (Winnetou) stars as Don Diego, who makes daring masked raids on his tyrannical stepfather's troops and incites the locals to stage an uprising. Brice was also in Zorro contra Read More
Synopsis: Hero of Rome is not to be confused with Heroes of Rome, so don't. Ex-Tarzan Gordon Scott plays the title character Leading lady Gabriella Pallotta is nearly as musclebound as Scott-and cuter, besides. The plot is inconsequential: the usual tyrants, deadly tasks, fetching damsels and flashing pecs. Read More
Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland
Synopsis: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Read More
Synopsis: This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Richard Harrison, Loredana Nusciak, Livio Lorenzon, Gerard Tichy, Edoardo Toniolo
Synopsis: Four writers are to credit for this unsuccessful sword-and-sandal feature starring Richard Harrison. Set in the 1st century A.D., Sparta is under the tyranny of the Roman Empire. With the help of six other gladiators, Spartan Darius (Harrison) is determined to make a small contribution to the Read More
Synopsis: This Italian drama tells the story of Christ's crucifixion from the viewpoint of the Roman emperor's procurator in Israel who must try to quell a Jewish revolt. In a bizarre twist, John Drew Barrymore plays both Jesus and Judas in the film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan borrows a handful of the characters and little else from the works of Dumas. Like many Italian films of the early 1960s, this swashbuckler stars an American actor, George Nader, in hopes of broadening its market. Nader plays D'Artagnan along more mature lines than Read More
Actors: Cornel Wilde, Christine Kaufmann, Belinda Lee, Elisa Cegani
Synopsis: One of the many Italian sword-and-sandal adventure stories roughly depicting historical events -- sometimes too graphically -- this drama by director Lionello de Felice has its merits. The action moves along at a good clip, as Constantine's (Cornel Wilde) rise to power is depicted, amidst battling Read More
Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Ralph Truman, John Fraser
Synopsis: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Read More
Synopsis: In this 16th-century swashbuckler, the trouble begins when a sea captain is unjustly sentenced to hang by the evil ruler of the Duchy of Doruzzo and his daughter. Meanwhile, the comely lass who believes herself the doomed captain's daughter is about to be sold to a harem when they are freed by a Read More
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a ship load of the rich and horny embark on a cruise aboard a millionaire's yacht. Included in the guest roster are a French businessman, his singing wife, his mistress, his wife's lover, a count whom the businessman hired to sleep with his wife so he can get a divorce Read More
Synopsis: This chilling swashbuckler set in the 16th-century follows the exploits of a daring swordsman who must brave the horrors of a strange castle to defeat his nefarious foe. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Orson Welles, Ivo Payer, Edward Hilton, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Very loosely based on its Biblical source, this standard Italian sword-and-sandal action film stars Orson Welles as an intense, inward-turning King Saul, deteriorating at the same time that David is rising in renown. The shepherd David (Ivo Payer) is sent to the Israelite forces with supplies for Read More
Synopsis: Brennus, Enemy of Rome (Brenno, il nemicodi Roma) is what it says it is. The loinclothed hero battles sinister forces that would destroy his home, his friends, and his honor. The action sequences are expertly handled, which is more than we can say for the English dubbing. The stars are Maciste Read More
Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure set in the 15th century, a dashing hero is released from prison and assigned to save the governor of Rhodes' kidnapped daughter from a wicked pirate. Instead, the parolee joins the pirates, but when they catch him staring at the girl, they beat him senseless and leave Read More
Actors: José Suárez, François Perier, Jacqueline Sassard, Massimo Serato, Ana Mariscal
Synopsis: Director and co-writer Luigi Zampa, best known for his earlier works as a satirist of favorite targets like bureaucratic labyrinths, takes a stab at the complicity of society and family in the criminal acts of a few individuals. The stage is set by a somewhat dysfunctional family with its sad Read More
Actors: Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi, Lea Padovani
Synopsis: The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an uneven drama. Anthony Franciosa is the artist, and Ava Gardner plays his paramour, the Duchess of Alba. While the Prime Minister of Spain schemes to betray his country to Read More
Synopsis: American film actor Lex Barker spent the bulk of his professional career hunting up jobs in Europe. In Captain Falcon, Barker plays the title character, a do-gooding high seas swashbuckler. Rossana Rory is the heroine, whose tiny country is threatened by a gang of marauders headed by Massimo Serato Read More
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig, John Clements, Sidney James, Gianna Maria Canale
Synopsis: The Silent Enemy is based on Commander Crabb, a book by Marshall Pugh. This is the true story of young Lieutenant Crabb (Laurence Harvey), who in 1941 arrives in Gilbaltar to learn the rudiments of deep-sea diving. Crabb isn't interested in recreation, however; there's a war on, and it is common Read More
Actors: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray, Betsy Blair
Synopsis: The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this black-and-white drama from Michelangelo Antonioni. The worker lives with a married woman and their young daughter. One day, the woman learns that her legal spouse died. The refinery Read More
Synopsis: Bouncing back and forth between American and European productions in the 1950s, director Steve Sekely settled in Italy long enough to dash off Cartouche. The swashbuckling title character, played by Richard Basehart, is an 18th-century gentleman accused of murdering a prince. In the tradition of Read More
Actors: Otello Toso, Märta Torén, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Tormento D'Amore was the last film of Swedish actress Marta Toren, who died in 1957 at the age of 31. Also known as Torrent of Love, the film casts Toren as Sara, whose love for fiancé Luigi (Otello Toso) goes far beyond obsessive. Anxiously waiting a crucial letter from Luigi, Sara is driven to Read More
Synopsis: His last film involving his own writing, Lewis Milestone directs the romantic drama The Widow, based on the novel La Vedova by Susan York. This Italian/French co-production is filmed in black-and-white with English dialogue. Young woman Adriana (Anna-Maria Ferrero) falls in love with race car Read More
Synopsis: Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three parts. To help her decide, she asks a trio of male friends. Their disparate suggestions that she go as Read More
Actors: Martine Carol, André Luguet, Gianna Maria Canale, Daniel Ivernel, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: This upteenth film version of the life of royal courtesan Madame Du Barry stars Martine Carol in the title role. Starting out as an ambitious shopgirl, our heroine catches the eye of the even more ambitious Count du Barry (Daniel Ivernei), who in turn brings the girl to the attention of King Louis Read More
Actors: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano, Irene Papas
Synopsis: It's hardly a coincidence that George Raft made so many films outside the U.S. when he began to have income-tax problems in the early 1950s. The Man From Cairo casts Raft as an American vacationing in Algiers. In short order, he becomes involved with a group of mercenaries who are searching for a Read More
Actors: Martine Carol, Pedro Armendáriz, Massimo Serato, Valentine Tessier, Louis Seigner
Synopsis: Blonde French sex symbol Martine Carol is incongruously cast as the title character in Lucrece Borgia. The bloody excesses of the incestuous Borgia family during the Renaissance are given ample screen time, albeit within the bounds of reasonably good taste. Mexico's Pedro Armendariz struts and Read More
Actors: Michel Simon, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Even allowing for its translation into modern French, this is a remarkably unfaithful adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The central role of the usurious Shylock is played by Michel Simon, who manages to convey both the menace and the pathos of the character without Read More
Actors: Nelly Corradi, Massimo Serato, Anna Maria Ferrero, Tina Lattanzi, Carlo Croccolo
Synopsis: The time is 1860: the place, northern Italy. The hero (Massimo Serato) is a young nobleman by day, a masked bandit by night. He uses his ill-gotten gains to finance a revolution against the government (these were turbulent times in Italy's history). In addition, he is between two lovers: Laura di Read More
Actors: Massimo Serato, Marcello Mastroianni, Marina Berti, Anna Maria Ferrero
Synopsis: Leopoldo Trieste's stage play Cronaca was the basis for the Italian drama Febbre di Vivere (Eager to Live). Though virtually every character in the film is tenuously connected with Italian high society, many of them can be classified as "low lifes." And none is lower than two-bit bookie Massico Read More
Actors: Maria Felix, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Vanel, Massimo Serato
Synopsis: Incantesimo Tragico (Tragic Spell) is a sombre Italian vehicle for the magnificent Mexican film luminary Maria Felix. The story is motivated by an ancient curse, passed from generation to generation. The source of the hex is a fabulous treasure, which of course eventually falls into the hands of Felix Read More
Actors: Vivi Gioi, Massimo Serato, Umberto Spadaro, Paolo Stoppa, Walter Rilia
Synopsis: The title of this Italian wartime drama translates to Without a Flag. Set during WW I, the story concentrates on a group of Austrian saboteurs, who wreak havoc on Italian military installations. A secret agent manages to infiltrate the saboteur's headquarters in Vienna, where he appropriates a Read More
Actors: Maria Montez, Massimo Serato, Faye Marlowe
Synopsis: Maria Montez made her final screen appearance in the Italian-American co-production Thief of Venice. Montez is cast as Tina, an 8th-century Venetian tavern keeper, caught in the crossfire during the Italian city-state's war with Turkey. Aligning herself with naval officer Alfiere Lorenzo Contarini Read More
Actors: Janis Paige, Binnie Barnes, Massimo Serato, Eduardo Ciannelli
Synopsis: Janis Paige stars as Fugitive Lady Barbara Clementi in this internationally produced melodrama. When Italian millionaire Ralph Clementi (Eduardo Cianelli) dies mysteriously, suspicion falls upon Clementi's admittedly mercenary American wife Barbara. Insurance investigator Jeff (Tony Centa) is Read More
Actors: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Alan Curtis
Synopsis: Disciples of "B"-picture stylist Edgar Ulmer will not be disappointed with Pirates of Capri. Lensed in Italy, the film stars Louis Hayward as swashbuckling Captain Sirocco. Posing as a foppish nobleman by day, Sirocco tirelessly works on behalf of a group of insurgents bent on deposing the wicked Read More
Actors: Lea Padovani, Elli Parvo, Vittorio Duse, Egisto Olivieri
Synopsis: Originally Il Sole Sorge Ancora, Outcry is a neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II. The scene is the tiny village of Lombardy, just outside Milan. The villagers have suffered four years of humiliation and exploitation at the hands of the fascists. But when a priest Read More
Actors: Emilio Cigoli
Synopsis: Domenica D'Agosto was the first feature-length effort from Italian documentary filmmaker Luciano Emmeri. The film keeps within the accepted guidelines of Italian neorealism, albeit with a surfeit of warmth and humor. Emmeri details a typical midsummer Sunday in a seaside resort. A cast of Read More
Actors: Massimo Serato, Nerio Bernardi, Nelly Corradi
Synopsis: The Lost One is the English-language title for the 1948 adaptation of Giueseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata. Departing somewhat from the original plotline, the film accommodates a "framing story" involving Verdi (Nerio Bernardi) and Alexandre Dumas Jr. (Massimo Serato), author of the opera's source Read More
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