StenoFilmography

Banana Joe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bud Spencer, Marina Langner

Synopsis: Banana Joe (Bud Spencer) lives in paradisiacal bliss in a tropical village that is untainted by hard-nosed corporate and bureaucratic types, or by corruption, drugs, gangs, and other ills of modern society. When Banana Joe takes his banana boat to the trading post, he is informed he needs a permit Read More

Il Tango Della Gelosia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Diego Abatantuono, Philippe Leroy, Jenny Tamburi

Synopsis: In this light comedy based on a play by Aldo de Benedetti from the 1950s, Princess Lucia (Monica Vitti) is miffed that her husband, Prince Giulio (Philippe Leroy is single-mindedly focused on his race horses to the point that he is ignoring her. She decides to find out if he really does love her Read More

Fico D'India

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Gloria Guida, Aldo Maccione

Synopsis: In this routine, provincial Italian comedy, sex and jealousy take center stage. Lorenzo (Renato Pozzetto) is the cubby mayor of a small town who is both blessed and plagued by a sexy wife (Gloria Guida). Although his wife is faithful, he is not sure of that and invents ways to prevent any man from Read More

La Patata Bollente

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech, Massimo Ranieri, Mario Scarpetta

Synopsis: The Italian La Patata Bollente (Hot Potato) casts some light on the intolerances of those involved in "liberal" Italian political and labor organizations. Popular comic-actor Renato Pozzetto plays an ill-tempered "old line" communist union organizer. One evening, he rescues a homosexual (Massimo Ranieri Read More

Piedone l'Africano

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Flatfoot was also released as The Knock-Out Cop. By any name, this Italian crime meller stars Baldwyn Dakile as Bodo, a tough, no-frills police officer. Determined to bring a gang of drug smugglers to justice, Bodo is ordered to lay off by his superiors. It's not likely that he will obey orders Read More

Doppio Delitto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Agostina Belli, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays the downtrodden Bruno Baldassare, a murder-squad investigator in Rome who gets no respect from his peers, who give him the least interesting cases. His bumbling aide, Cantalamessa, gets even less respect. While a lightning strike could have caused the deaths of two Read More

Tre Tigri Contro Tre Tigri

Crew: Director

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Dalila di Lazzaro, Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio

Synopsis: Three episodes of slapstick sexual comedy comprise this film. In the first, a young priest is deserted by his flock until an American protestant minister comes to town with his lovely wife. When the parishioners are convinced that their priest has proved his manhood with the minister's wife Read More

Il Padrone e l 'Operaio

Crew: Director

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Teo Teocoli, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Gianfranco Barra, Gillian Bray

Synopsis: After inheriting a faucet factory, Gianluca (Renato Pozzetto) does not have the skills to manage his workers. He is lucky he has the one-man sex machine Luigi (Teo Tocoli) around to show him how to do things. Indeed, so well does he learn his lessons that he leaves the factory behind in favor of Read More

La Poliziotta

Crew: Director

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Orazio Orlando, Alberto Lionello, Renato Pozzetto, Mario Carotenuto

Synopsis: Gianna Abastanza (Mariangelo Melato) is tired of men acting as though they can do everything better than women, so she enters the police force and dons a policewoman's uniform. By following the law more closely than her police comrades and superiors, she soon runs into trouble with them, though Read More

Mio Fratello Anastasia

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Conte, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This Italian comedy shows the gradual enlightenment of an innocent and unsuspecting priest (Alberto Sordi) as he discovers that his extremely generous brother (Richard Conte) is in fact a major American crime lord. It is based on the novel by the Rev. Salvatore Anastasia, brother of ganglord Read More

La Polizia Ringrazia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Enrico Maria Salerno

Synopsis: In this Italian crime drama, Bertone (Enrico Maria Salerno) is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to Read More

Il Vichingo Venuto dal Sud

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This comedy is in the Italian language. In Italy, shoe salesman Rossario runs the risk of being killed by outraged relatives if he has a brief affair with an unmarried woman, or by outraged husbands if he has an affair with a married woman. So when Rossario gets an opportunity to do his job in Read More

Cose Di Cosa Nostra

Crew: Screenwriter

Le Chevalier A La Rose Rouge

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Michéle Girardon, Raffaella Carrà, Carlos Estrada

A Day in Court

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Courtroom tomfoolery provides the basis for this four-episode Italian anthology comedy. In the first segment "Adultery in 16mm," an angry wife attempts to sue her neglectful husband by charging him with abandonment. Meanwhile, he charges her with adultery and claims to have a few reels of Read More

I Due Colonelli

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò, Walter Pidgeon, Scilla Gabel, Adriana Facchetti, Nino Taranto

Synopsis: In this Italian WW II comedy, an Italian colonel leads the invasion of Montegreco, a small town on the Greek-Albanian border. British troops also try to take over the village. The townsfolk are unconcerned as the two sides have "invaded" them more than threescore times already. The townies care Read More

Copacabana Palace

Crew: Director

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Claude Rich, Sylva Koscina, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: A stellar international cast compensates somewhat for the rambling plotlessness of The Girl Game. The film takes place during Carnival Time in Rio De Janeiro. As unconfined joy wafts its way through the streets, the lives of several fabulously wealthy visitors and a group of voluptuous Read More

Psycosissimo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, three unemployed actors are rehearsing for a crime scene in their boarding house unaware that they are being watched by a nosy neighbor who is convinced that they are professional assassins. He offers them money to kill his philandering wife, and the hungry thespians agree Read More

Tempi Duri per i Vampiri

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this horror movie, the unwitting guests at a charming ancestral estate soon find themselves the main entree for the bloodsucking young proprietor's dinner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Tartassati

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò, Louis de Funès, Aldo Fabrizi, Luciano Marin, Cathia Caro

Synopsis: Several top Italian stars, including Toto as a shopkeeper and Also Fabrizi as a tax collector, are featured in this entertaining comedy. The shopkeeper like a lot of others, does not want to pay the taxes he is normally assessed. By his reckoning, they are far too high. So when the tax collector Read More

Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito

Crew: Director

Totò nella luna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this Italian sci-fi comedy, Toto is not a little dog, but an enormously popular comedian. The story centers on him as he and another embark upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Femmine Tre Volte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Sonia (Sylva Koscina) is quite a woman, if not perhaps the "Female Three Times" of the title. The captain of a Soviet female basketball team, Sonia joins her teammates on a goodwill visit to Rome. Here she is captivated by the sights, sounds and sensual pleasures of the Eternal City. When Sonia Read More

Mio figlio Nerone

Crew: Director

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Gloria Swanson, Vittorio De Sica, Brigitte Bardot

Synopsis: Mio Figlio Nero boasts one of the most eccentrically diverse casts in motion picture history. Silent movie queen Gloria Swanson hams it up as Agrippina, the mother of infamous 1st-century Roman emperor Nero. Her little boy grows up to become Alberto Sordi, who plays the notorious lyre-plucker and Read More

Le Avventure Di Giacomo Casanova

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet

Synopsis: Gabriele Ferzetti essays the amorous title character in Le Avventure di Giacomo Casanova. While incarcerated in a Spanish jail, the famed 18th-century lover remembers some of his more formidable conquests. Though many women have thrown themselves at Casanova's feet, the true love of his life was a Read More

Piccola Posta

Crew: Screenwriter

Un Americano a Roma

Crew: Screenwriter

Droles De Bobines

Crew: Director

Actors: Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari, Jean Richard

Un Giorno in Pretura

Crew: Screenwriter

Ci Troviamo in Galleria

Crew: Screenwriter

Le Infedeli

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Anna Maria Ferrero, Pierre Cressoy, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Le Infedeli is graced by two internationally popular leading ladies: Italy's Gina Lollobrigida and Sweden's Mai Britt. The two actresses are but small portions of a larger plot mosaic, all about keeping up appearances no matter what the provocation. A group of "respectable" people are all partly Read More

Totò a Colori

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò, Isa Barzizza, Fulvia Franco, Franca Valeri, Galeazzo Benti

Synopsis: The English-language title of Toto a Colori is Toto in Color -- and it delivers on this promise. For the first time in his film career, that matchless Italian comedian Toto goes through his paces in living Ferraniacolor. There's not much of a plot: Toto performs several of his favorite stage Read More

O.K. Nerone

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini, Carlo Campanini, Gino Cervi

Synopsis: OK Nerone stars Italian film favorites Walter Chiari and Cario Capanine as a pair of fun-loving American sailors. While on a sightseeing tour of Rome, the two tars imagine themselves back to the days of Emperor Nero (Gino Cervi). The rest of the film is in the fine tradition of such Eddie Cantor Read More

Guardie E Ladri

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: William Tubbs, Pina Piovani

Synopsis: Guardie e Ladri (Cops and Robbers) is buoyed by the combined comic talents of Aldo Fabrizi and Toto. Toto plays Ferdinando Esposito, a thief who has successfully eluded the law for many years. Fabrizi plays Bottoni, a detective who has been given three months to bring Esposito to justice. Deciding Read More

Il Brigante Musolino

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Amedeo Nazzari, Umberto Spadaro

Synopsis: Amedeo Nazzari stars as Peppe Musolino, a good-natured woodcutter wrongly accused of murder. Sentenced to 20 years in prison, Musolino escapes to wreak vengeance upon the actual culprit. In the process, he develops a reputation as a bloodthirsty bandit, knocking off the witnesses who perjured Read More

Vita Da Cani

Crew: Screenwriter

È arrivato il cavaliere!

Crew: Director

Actors: Tino Scotti

Totò al giro d'Italia

Crew: Screenwriter

Aquila Nera

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Irasema Dilian, Gino Cervi, Harry Feist

Synopsis: Before turning to horror pictures, Italian filmmaker Riccardo Freda directed some of the finest costume epics of the postwar era. Filmed in 1946 as Aquila Nera, Freda's Return of the Black Eagle made it to American screens in 1949. Based on a story by Alexander Pushkin, the film concerns the Read More