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Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (22 February 1909 – 21 August 1987) was an Italian composer, born in Genoa. He is best known for scoring many films, including ''Legend of the Lost'', '' Conspiracy of Hearts'', '' Gorgo'', '' The Legion's Last Patrol'', ''The Naked Maja'', ''Daisy Miller'', and two directed by Orson Welles, ''Othello'' and ''Chimes at Midnight''. He also scored several peplums and Spaghetti Westerns. Lavagnino won the Nastro d'Argento award for Best Score twice, for '' Continente perduto'' (1954) and ''Vertigine bianca'' (1956). Selected filmography * ''The Devil in the Convent'' (1950) * ''Mamma Mia, What an Impression!'' (1951) * ''Othello'' (1951) * ''Woman of the Red Sea'' (1953) *''Un americano a Roma'' (1954) *'' Continente perduto'' (1955) * '' The Wanderers'' (1956) *''Roland the Mighty'' (1956) *'' Count Max'' (1957) * ''Legend of the Lost'' (1957) * ''Engaged to Death'' (1957) * ''The Naked Maja'' (1958) * ''The Wind Cannot Read'' (1958) *''Passionate Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Definition The term is descended from Latin, ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is from Thomas Morley's 1597 ''A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music'', where he says "Some wil be good descanters ..and yet wil be but bad composers". 'Composer' is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or ' singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamma Mia, What An Impression!
''Mamma Mia, What an Impression!'' (Italian: ''Mamma mia, che impressione!'') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Roberto Savarese and starring Alberto Sordi, Giovanna Pala and Carlo Giustini. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori. It earned around 90 million lira at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p. 219 Synopsis Arturo and Alberto compete for the attention of an attractive young woman. While Arturo is a handsome athlete, Alberto is an overbearing idiot. In order to challenge his rival on his own territory Alberto decides to enter a marathon in Rome. Cast * Alberto Sordi as Alberto * Giovanna Pala as La signora Margherita * Carlo Giustini as Arturo * Frank Colson as Don Isidoro * Fausto Guerzoni as Venditore del presepio * Luigi Pavese as Il giudice di gara * Checco Rissone as L'uomo del panino * Vinicio Sofia as L'energumeno * Riccardo Bertazzolo as Il bagnino * Carlo Delle Piane as Tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messalina (1960 Film)
''Messalina'' ( it, Messalina Venere imperatrice) is a 1960 Italian ''peplum'' film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. Plot After the death of the Emperor Caligula, Claudius is chosen to replace him. Claudius decides to take a new wife, the Vestal Virgin Messalina, the niece of Augustus Caesar. The night before the wedding Messalina murders a noble via poison. An assassin is sent to kill Messalina; she seduces him, has him killed and presents his severed head. Cast * Belinda Lee as Valeria Messalina * Spiros Focás as Lucius Maximus * Carlo Giustini as Lucius Geta (as Carlo Justini) * Giancarlo Sbragia as Aulo Celso (as Gian Carlo Sbragia) * Arturo Dominici as Gaius Lilius * Giulio Donnini as Narcissus * Ida Galli as Silvia * Mino Doro as Claudius * Giuliano Gemma as Marcellus * Annie Gorassini as Courtisan lover of Aulo Ceso * Lia Angeleri as Vipidia * Aroldo Tieri as Pirgo Pollinice * Vittorio Congia as Ortotrago * Paola Pitagora (as Paola Gargeloni) * Bruno Scipioni P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Warrior Empress
''The Warrior Empress'' (Italian: ''Saffo - Venere di Lesbo'') is a 1960 Italian-French peplum film directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Kerwin Mathews, Tina Louise Tina Louise ( Blacker; born February 11, 1934) is an American actress widely known for her role as movie star Ginger Grant in the CBS television situation comedy ''Gilligan's Island''. With the death of Dawn Wells in 2020, Louise became the las ... and Riccardo Garrone. Cast References Bibliography * Gary Allen Smith. ''Epic Films: Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies''. McFarland, 2004. External links * French historical adventure films Italian historical adventure films 1960s historical adventure films 1960 films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Pietro Francisci Peplum films Cultural depictions of Sappho Films with screenplays by Luciano Martino Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Sword and sandal films 1960s Italian film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastone (film)
''Gastone'' is a 1960 Italian comedy film co-written and directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Alberto Sordi, Anna Maria Ferrero and Vittorio De Sica. It is loosely based on the Ettore Petrolini's character and comedy play with the same name. Plot Italy, 1920s. The suffered glimmers of war seem very far away, especially if and when you have the opportunity to have fun in places like the tabarin: it is here that Gastone, aka Gaston Le Beau, profession danseur mondain, accompanied by the inseparable tailcoat, performs dancing with extreme elegance and entertains the wealthy ladies who go there. Enclosed in the magnificent image of "bell'Adone", a woman-wasting dancer, elegant and sexy, Gastone is actually a frivolous and artless character, a well-known scammer at the police station who not only cares about being desired by the admirers but wants something else: success, that full glory and never achieved due to the outbreak of the Great War. Surrounded by equally fatuous and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nel Segno Di Roma
''Sheba and the Gladiator'' ( it, Nel Segno di Roma) is a 1959 list of historical drama films, historical drama film loosely pertaining to the Palmyrene Empire and its re-annexation back into the Roman Empire. Cast * Anita Ekberg as Zenobia * Georges Marchal as Consul Marcus Valerius * Folco Lulli as Zemanzius * Chelo Alonso as Erica * Gino Cervi as Aurelian * Jacques Sernas as Julianus *Lorella De Luca as Batsheba *Alberto Farnese as Marcello *Mimmo Palmara as Lator Production ''Sheba the Gladiator'' was shot in 1958. Director Guido Brignone fell ill during the production on the film leading to two other directors to enter the production to help complete it: Michelangelo Antonioni and Riccardo Freda. For Antonioni, he visited Brignone in the hospital and reported on what he filmed and received instructions for the next day. Freda was in charge shooting the battle scenes which he did with cinematographer Mario Bava and Antonioni working with cinematographer Luciano Trasatti sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Days Of Pompeii (1959 Film)
''The Last Days of Pompeii'' () is a 1959 Eastmancolor sword and sandal action film starring Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, and Fernando Rey and directed by Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone. Bonnard, the original director, fell ill on the first day of shooting, so Leone and the scriptwriters finished the film. The film is characterized by its CinemaScope framing and lavish look, and is one of many films produced during the 1950s and 1960s as part of the ''peplum'' sword and sandal cycle, originally launched by Pietro Francisci's film ''Le fatiche di Ercole'' (1958), released as ''Hercules'' in the United States. Plot Glaucus, a centurion returning to his home in Pompeii after a spell in Palestine, arrives on the edge of town just in time to see Ione, the beautiful daughter of the city's Consul, lose control of her chariot. Glaucus saves Ione's life and then heads into town to see his father. On the way, Glaucus intervenes in defense of a thief named Antonius, who is being sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passionate Summer
''Passionate Summer'' is a 1958 British drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell. It is also known by the alternative title ''Storm Over Jamaica''. It was based on a best-selling 1949 novel by Richard Mason (novelist 1919–1997), Richard Mason called ''The Shadow and the Peak''. Premise A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce, and meets an exciting new woman. Cast * Virginia McKenna - Judy Waring * Bill Travers - Douglas Lockwood * Yvonne Mitchell - Mrs Pawley * Alexander Knox - Leonard Pawley * Carl Möhner - Louis * Gordon Heath - Coroner * Guy Middleton - Duffield * Pearl Prescod - Mrs Morgan * Ellen Barrie - Sylvia Production The film was based on Richard Mason's novel ''The Shadow and the Peak'' which was published in 1949. It was Mason's second novel, following ''The Wind Cannot Read'', which the Rank Organisation had filmed with Dirk Bogarde. The ''New York Times'' called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind Cannot Read
''The Wind Cannot Read'' is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser. It was based on the 1946 novel by Richard Mason, who also wrote the screenplay. Songwriter Peter Hart received the 1958 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for the title song, performed by Vera Lynn. The title derives from a Japanese poem, and lines from the poem are prominently displayed (in English) in the movie. The same lines are on the tombstone of novelist/screenwriter Mason, who died in 1997. Plot The film takes place in Burma and India during World War II. A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen. They marry in secret and plan on spending his two weeks' leave together. When one of the other officers is injured, he is sent into the field as an interrogator. Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engaged To Death
''Engaged to Death'' (Italian: ''I fidanzati della morte'') is a 1957 Italian sports drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Rik Battaglia, Sylva Koscina and Margit Nünke.Rondolino p.183 The veteran German star Hans Albers appears in a supporting role. The film portrays the lives of top motorcycle racing competitors. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carlo Egidi. It was shot in Eastmancolor. Cast * Rik Battaglia as Carlo * Sylva Koscina as Lucia * Margit Nünke as Giovanna * Gustavo Rojo as Pietro * Hans Albers as Lorenzo * Carlo Ninchi as Parisi * Saro Urzì as Tulio * Anna Maini * Marida Vanni * Giovanni Piva * Marco Guglielmi * Edoardo Toniolo * Piero Pastore * Giorgio Pucci * Valeria Fabrizi * Renato Navarrini * Spartaco Ricci * Geoffrey Duke as Biker * Libero Liberati as Biker * Bill Lomas as Biker * Enrico Lorenzetti as Biker * Pierre Monneret as Biker * Alessandro Tedeschi as Tour Eiffel Tourist * Maria Tedeschi Maria may r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Max (1957 Film)
''Count Max'' (Italian:''Il conte Max'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica and Anne Vernon. It is a remake of the 1937 film ''Il signor Max'' in which De Sica had played the title role. This film was itself remade in 1991. A newspaper vendor masquerades as a count, falling in with a baroness and her wealthy, aristocratic friends. He believes he is love with her, but comes to realize he has more in common with her maid. The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini. Plot Alberto Boccetti, Roman newsagent in Via Veneto, is mistaken for Count Max Orsini Varaldo, a penniless nobleman and scrounger, while on vacation in Cortina (where he went instead of going on vacation to the village of Capracotta as desired by his uncle). Here he meets Baroness Elena di Villombrosa, who invites him to join the company of nobles, headed to Seville, but also meets their housekeeper Lauretta. In Seville, after contrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland The Mighty
''Roland the Mighty'' ( it, Orlando e i Paladini di Francia) is a 1956 Italian film directed by Pietro Francisci. about the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in AD 778, where Roland, a knight in the service of Charlemagne was killed while defending the rear-guard of the Franks, Frankish army as it retreated across the Pyrenees. Plot Charlemagne and Agramante are at war. The Saracen king devises a plan to weaken the opponent: he asks for a truce and sends the beautiful Angelica to the Frankish Kingdom with the intent of sowing discord among the paladins by creating a rivalry of love. Cast * Rik Battaglia as Roland * Rosanna Schiaffino as Angélique * Fabrizio Mioni as Renaud * Lorella De Luca as Aude * Ivo Garrani as Charlemagne * Cesare Fantoni as Agramante * Clelia Matania as Mary * Mimmo Palmara as Argalie * Vittorio Sanipoli as Ganelon * Robert Hundar as Balicante * Rossella Como as Dolores * Pietro Tordi as Ubaldo Release ''Roland the Mighty'' was released in Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
