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Alfio Caltabiano
Alfio Caltabiano (1932–2007) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.Curti p.25 Partial filmography * ''Il principe dalla maschera rossa'' (1955) * ''Messalina'' (1960) * ''La strada dei giganti'' (1960) * ''The Colossus of Rhodes'' (1961) - Creonte * ''Barabbas'' (1961) - Gladiatior Trainer (uncredited) * '' The Son of Captain Blood'' (1962) - Man fighting at Dock (uncredited) * ''Colossus of the Arena'' (1962) - Psychios * ''I Am Semiramis'' (1963) - Zagos, Dardanian (uncredited) * ''Goliath and the Sins of Babylon'' (1963) - Meneos * '' Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance'' (1963) - The Crie * ''Il mistero del tempio indiano'' (1963) - The Crie * ''Seven Slaves Against the World'' (1964) - Gladiatore * '' The Revenge of Spartacus'' (1964) * ''Two Sergeants of General Custer'' (1965) - Nervous Buffalo * ''Seven Rebel Gladiators'' (1965) - Vadius * '' Erik, the Viking'' (1965) * ''Colorado Charlie'' (1965) - Creonte * ''L'armata Brancaleone'' (1966) - Arnolfo Mano-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Graffiti
''Italian Graffiti'' ( it, Tutti figli di Mammasantissima) is a 1973 Italian criminal comedy film written and directed by Alfio Caltabiano and starring Pino Colizzi and Ornella Muti. Plot Assunta Morano is the daughter of Bug Morano, a Sicilian boss transplanted in Chicago in 1929 where there is prohibition on alcohol sales. The father took part in the fighting between criminal gangs for control of the alcohol market and casinos, but his men are little capable, starting from his brother Wolf Morano. The goal of Morano is to eliminate the rival gang of so-called "Irish", led by "Reverend". Daughter Santuzza instead of peaceful soul, though passionate, and does not participate of family plans. Forward to Marano bosses are awaiting the arrival from a "mammasantissima" Sicily with the task of strengthening the team of killers against "Irish". These arrives, but is neither fierce nor ruthless; is called Salvatore Mandolea and is a handsome and polite, has a lot of irony and skill with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Slaves Against The World
''Seven Slaves Against the World'' (Italian: ''Gli schiavi più forti del mondo''; also known as ''Seven Slaves Against Rome'') is a 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal adventure film, directed by Michele Lupo, produced by Elio Scardamaglia, written by Lupo and Roberto Gianviti and starring Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell and Arnaldo Fabrizio. First released in Italy in 1964, it premiered in New York City, United States on August 18, 1965. Cast * Roger Browne as Marcus *Gordon Mitchell as Balisten *Arnaldo Fabrizio as Goliath *Scilla Gabel as Claudia *Aldo Pini as Traidor * Alfredo Rizzo as Efrem *Giacomo Rossi-Stuart Giacomo Rossi Stuart (25 August 1925 – 20 October 1994) was an Italian film actor often credited as Jack Stuart or Giacomo Rossi-Stuart. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1953 and 1989. Biography Born in Todi to an Italian father ... as Gaius * Carlo Tamberlani as Lucius Terentius * Germano Longo as Lucius Emilius * Alfio Caltabiano as Gladiatore *Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California (1977 Film)
''California'' is a 1977 Italo-Spanish Spaghetti Western film directed by Michele Lupo. The film was generally well received by critics and obtained a good commercial success at Italian box office. Plot After the American Civil War gunman California wants to renew his life. He changes his name to Michael Random and seeks a home where he can live in peace. In the war's aftermath he gets to know young Willy Preston. En route to Preston's family, Willy is killed by a gang of criminals under the helm of Robert Whittaker. California informs Willy's kin and falls in love with Willy's sister, Helen. One day they witness Whittaker and his gang robbing a bank; Helen is taken hostage. California is faced with the decision to resort to the merciless shootist he was during the war although it will not spare Helen the gruesome experience of being game to ruthless desperados. Cast * Giuliano Gemma: Michael 'California' Random * Miguel Bosé: Willy Preston * Chris Avram: Nelson * Paola Domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keoma (film)
''Keoma'' is a 1976 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring Franco Nero. It is frequently regarded as one of the better 'twilight' Spaghetti Westerns, being one of the last films of its genre, and is known for its incorporation of newer cinematic techniques of the time (such as slow motion and close/medium panning shots) and its vocal soundtrack by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. Plot After the American Civil War, ex-Union soldier Keoma Shannon, part-Indian and part-white, returns to his home town to find his half-brothers in alliance with a petty tyrant named Caldwell. Caldwell and his gang rule over the town with an iron fist. With the help of his father and George, an old Black friend, he vows revenge. Keoma also shows compassion when he saves a pregnant woman from a group sent by Caldwell's group to be quarantined in a mine camp full of plague victims. Keoma is constantly visited by the apparition of an older woman ("The Witch") who saved him d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Called Amen
''Man Called Amen'' ( it, Così sia, also known as ''They Called Him Amen'' and ''Therefore It Is'') is a 1972 Italian Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Alfio Caltabiano. The film was a box office success and generated an immediate sequel, ''They Still Call Me Amen'' (''Mamma mia è arrivato così sia''). Cast * Luc Merenda: Amen * Sydne Rome: Dorothy * Alfio Caltabiano: Reverend Smith * Míla Beran: Grandpa * Tano Cimarosa: Chako * Renato Cestiè: John * Dante Maggio: Professor * Furio Meniconi Furio Meniconi (22 February 1924 – 12 December 1981) was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Meniconi was born in Rome into a family active in the cinema industry in the technical cast, or engaged in the general organizatio ...: Sheriff References External links * 1972 films Spaghetti Western films 1970s Western (genre) comedy films Films with screenplays by Dario Argento 1972 comedy films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Western-film-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sword For Brando
''A Sword for Brando'' (Italian: ''Una spada per Brando'') is a 1970 Italian adventure film directed by Alfio Caltabiano and starring Riccardo Salvino, Karin Schubert and Tano Cimarosa.Curti p.25 Cast * Riccardo Salvino as Robin Hood * Karin Schubert as Samanta * Tano Cimarosa as Greedy friar * Furio Meniconi as Tall friar * Gérard Herter * Sandro Dori as Fra' Gisippo * Richard Watson * Gianna Zingone * Dante Maggio * Consalvo Dell'Arti * Paolo Magalotti * Giorgio Dolfin * Alfio Caltabiano as The Count * Ivano Staccioli Ivano Staccioli (3 January 1927 – 15 July 1995) was an Italian film actor. Staccioli made 70 appearances between 1960 and 1991, mostly in film. He is best known for his appearances in historical adventures and action or western films in the 1 ... References Bibliography * Roberto Curti. ''Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980''. McFarland, 2013. External links * 1970s historical adventure films Italian historical adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bootleggers (1969 Film)
''Bootleggers'' ( it, Cinque figli di cane, es, América rugiente) is a 1969 Italian-Spanish crime-action film written and directed by Alfio Caltabiano and starring George Eastman and Wayde Preston. Set in the U.S., it was shot between Spain and Amalfi. Cast * George Eastman as McGowan aka "The Irish" * Wayde Preston as Grimm Doyle * Graziella Granata as Letizia * Tano Cimarosa as Moncio * Archie Savage as Jeremiah * José Suárez as "The Engineer" * Eduardo Fajardo as Sir Louis Baymond * Nello Pazzafini as Gangster at Brothel * Antonella Murgia as Mary * Gianni Solaro as Inspector * Sandro Dori as Mary's husband * Tito García Pablo García González, known as Tito García (1931–2003) was a Spanish actor. Biography Working as a torero in his youth, he played a minor role in ''Pelusa'' (1961). After this, he intended to dedicate himself to an acting career, and ... as Prison warden Charlie * Goyo Lebrero as The Barber * Gia Sandri as Brothel Madam * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comandamenti Per Un Gangster
''Comandamenti per un gangster'' (''Commandments for a Gangster'') is a 1968 gangster film directed by Alfio Caltabiano Production ''Comandamenti per un gangster'' was Alfio Caltabiano's second film as a director. It was co-written by film critic and future director Dario Argento. The films script showcases several traits that would later become part of Argento's directorial career. This includes an unseen murderer with black gloves, shots from a murderer's point of view and having the murderer being identified by a physical detail, a scar on his face. The film was shot on location in Yugoslavia. Release ''Comandamenti per un gangster'' was released in Italy on 22 May 1968 where it was distributed by D.C.I. It grossed a total of 106.073 million Italian lire on its release. It was released in Yugoslavia as ''Poslednji obracun'' in 1968. Reception In a contemporary review, Pietro Bianchi wrote in '' Il Giorno'' that the film was "a skillful attempt at applying the Western formula t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballad Of A Gunman
''Ballad of a Gunman'', also known as ''Pistoleros'' and ''Ringo, Pray to Your God and Die'' ( it, Ballata per un pistolero) is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Alfio Caltabiano and starring Antony Ghidra. Plot The criminal brothers El Bedoja and Chiuchi have each their own gang. Together they rob a stagecoach. After they've just got rid of all witnesses by killing the passengers, they are already about to plan the next coup together. This time they want to do the bank of Mallintown. Its safe is considered unbreakable but it does open automatically shortly at certain times. The two gang leaders use the stagecoach as a kind of Trojan Horse The Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is not mentioned in Homer's ''Iliad'', with the poem ending before the war is concluded, ... to get gang members unrecognised into the town and moreover to have a big ches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Pilot
''Star Pilot'' ( it, 2+5: Missione Hydra) is a 1966 Italian science-fiction film directed by Pietro Francisci. It stars Leonora Ruffo as Chaena Plot Chaena is the commander of a spaceship from the constellation Hydra, which has crashed on the island of Sardinia. An Earth scientist, some technicians, their companions, and some Chinese agents are abducted by the aliens and forced to repair the ship. With the ship repaired, the aliens decide to take the humans to Hydra for the purpose of genetic research, but while in flight, the humans mutiny. Cast * Leonora Ruffo as Kaela * Mario Novelli (credited as Anthony Freeman) as Paolo Bardi * Roland Lesaffre as Prof. Solmi * Kirk Morris as Belsy * Alfio Caltabiano as Artie * Leontine Snell as Luisa Solmi * Nando Angelini as Morelli * Giovanni De Angelis as Giulio * John Sun as Dr. Chang * Antonio Ho as Chinese Secret Agent * John Chen as Chinese Secret Agent * Gordon Mitchell as Murdu Reception TV Guide found the movie poorly pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'armata Brancaleone
''L'armata Brancaleone'' (known in English-speaking countries as ''For Love and Gold'' or ''The Incredible Army of Brancaleone'') is an Italian comedy film released on April 7, 1966, written by the duo Age & Scarpelli and directed by Mario Monicelli. It features Vittorio Gassman in the main role. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. The term ''Armata Brancaleone'' is still used today in Italian to define a group of badly assembled and poorly equipped people. Brancaleone is an actual historical name, meaning the paw of lions in heraldry jargon. Brancaleone degli Andalò was a governor of Rome in the Middle Ages. Plot The movie opens with a small Italian village being stormed by a band of Hungarian pillagers. When the murders and rapes are over, a German knight arrives and bravely kills the bandits. However, as he is healing his wounds he is attacked by two of the surviving villagers and one of the thieves. They throw the wounded knight into a river. The attackers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik, The Viking
''Vengeance of the Vikings'' ( it, Erik il vichingo, link=no) is a 1965 film directed by Mario Caiano. Cast *Gordon Mitchell ... Sven / Byarni * Giuliano Gemma ... Erik * Eleonora Bianchi ... Gudrid (as Ely McWhite) *Elisa Montés ... Wa-ta-wa *Eduardo Fajardo ... Olaf *Beni Deus ... Torstein (as Beny Deus) *Alfio Caltabiano ... Narvik - Viking Warrior / Wingar - Indian Chief *Lucio De Santis ... Eyolf *Erno Crisa ... Erloff * Roberto Ceccacci (as Roby Ceccacci) *Aldo Pini *Fortunato Arena ... Thormann *Fedele Gentile ... Viking Chief *Franco Morici *Aldo Bufi Landi ... Angheropoulos *Al Parker Production The scenes showing tropical greenery were filmed in a botanical garden north of Málaga Málaga (, ) is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 578,460 in 2020, it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia after Seville and the sixth most pop .... Release ''Vengeance of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |