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Alfredo Rizzo
Alfredo Rizzo (2 January 1902 – 6 September 1991) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and director. Life and career Born in Nice, France into a family of actors, Rizzo started his career as an actor of avanspettacolo and revue, often alongside his brother Carlo. After his debut on the big screen in 1939, in the aftermath of the Second World War he had an intense and long film career, being mostly cast in the role of "villain". Later, he also wrote and directed a number of films, mostly of erotic genre, sometimes credited as Fred Ritz. Selected filmography ; Actor * '' Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei?'' (1939) - L'uomo della mosca di piatto (uncredited) * ''Macario Against Zagomar'' (1944) * ''L'Amante del male'' (1946) - Il giudice Forlenza * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) *'' Fire Over the Sea'' (1947) - Barbiere in Argentina * ''Sono io l'assassino'' (1948) * ''I contrabbandieri del mare'' (1948) * ''The Firemen of Viggiù'' (1949) - Fireman from Milan * ''Vivere a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Una Bruna Indiavolata!
''Una bruna indiavolata!'' is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Cast * Silvana Pampanini as Clara * Ugo Tognazzi as Carlo Soldi * Nando Bruno as Autista del taxi * Carlo Sposito as Giulio Scanagatta * Rocco D'Assunta as Il ladro * Luigi Pavese as Commissario * Virgilio Riento as Cameriere * Nino Milano as Dino * Anna Campori as Signora Cartoni * Alfredo Rizzo as Finto testimone * Ughetto Bertucci as Camionista * Liana Del Balzo as Mamma di Giulio * Gigi Reder Gigi Reder (born Luigi Schroeder; 25 March 1928 – 8 October 1998) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He was best known for the role of Filini in the ''Fantozzi'' film series. Biography Born in Naples in to a German father and a Neapolita ... as Cameriere al bar della stazione External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films 1951 comedy films Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Films set in Rome Italian comedy films Italian black-and-white fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Romanzo Della Mia Vita
''Il romanzo della mia vita'' is a 1952 Italian biographical melodrama film. It depicts real life events of singer-actor Luciano Tajoli, who plays himself in the film. Cast *Luciano Tajoli: Himself *Antonella Lualdi: Maria *Fulvia Franco: Clara *Vittorio Sanipoli: Gianni *Giulietta Masina: Paola *Francesco Golisano: Piero *Guglielmo Inglese: Pasquale Curcio *Enrico Glori: il presentatore *Lauro Gazzolo: l'avvocato Marchetti *Nino Cavalieri: il direttore del teatro Odeon *Mario Siletti: l'organizzatore dell'Ora del dilettante *Camillo Pilotto: il commissario *Enzo Biliotti: il signor Vismara *Renato Malavasi: il professore del consulto *Fedele Gentile: Enzo Tajoli *Rita Livesi: la madre di Luciano *Armando Annuale: il maestro di pianoforte *Claudio Ermelli: il custode del teatro *Mimo Billi: il padre di Paola *Gildo Bocci: il padrone della trattoria * Margherita Bossi Nicosia: la padrona della trattoria * Bruna Corrà : la cameriera di Clara *Liana Del Balzo: la signora elegante a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Qualcuna Piace Calvo
''A Qualcuna Piace Calvo'' is a 1959 Italian film, directed by Mario Amendola, starring Magali Noël, Antonio Cifariello, Roberto Risso and Gisella Sofio. Plot Giovanna has taken an infatuation with a film actor who has a bald head as a particular sign. The star needs a person to help him deal with the correspondence of his numerous admirers. Giovanna doesn't think twice and, disguising herself as a man, she gets hired as a typist for her secretary. The actor decides to replace his old harpist; the young musician Marcella shows up at the announcement, but the place is reserved for men only. She too decides to dress up as a man and gets the job. Cast * Antonio Cifariello as Alberto Rossi * Magali Noël as Marcella Salustri * Roberto Risso as Renato Salustri * Gisella Sofio as Giovanna * Glamor Mora as Alicia Morena * Tiberio Murgia as Rosario De Luca * Rossana Rossanigo as Lucia * Alberto Sorrentino as Moreno * Pupella Maggio as Madre di Marcella * Lydia Johnson as Gertrude Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Playgirls And The Vampire
''The Playgirls and the Vampire'' ( it, L'ultima preda del vampiro, lit=The Vampire's Last Prey) is a 1960 Italian horror film directed and written by Piero Regnoli. Plot outline A feckless troupe of exotic dancers and their piano player led by a bumbling manager stumble upon a castle after encountering a ferocious storm. The castle, inhabited by Count Gabor, his assistant, and a vampire, is little refuge for the traveling showgirls as they slowly fall under the spell of the undead demon. Vera, one of the reluctant dancers and the living doppelgänger of the vampire's dead wife, Margherita Kernassy—who has been dead nearly 200 years—becomes the object of affection for Count Gabor and the vampire. Cast Cast adapted from the book ''Italian Gothic Horror Films 1957-1969''. Release Under the title ''L'ultima preda del vampiro'', this film was released in Italy on 28 November 1960 through Film Selezione. The film grossed a total of 72.193 million Italian lira. Richard Gordon, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Dolce Vita
''La Dolce Vita'' (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life"Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, a tabloid journalist who, over seven days and nights, journeys through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. The screenplay, written by Fellini and three other screenwriters, can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation.Cf. Bondanella 1994, p. 143 and Kezich, p. 203 Released in Italy on 5 February 1960, ''La Dolce Vita'' was both a critical success and worldwide commercial hit, despite censorship in some regions. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Costumes. It was nominated for three more Oscars, including Best Director for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interpol (film)
''Interpol'' (known in the U.S. as ''Pickup Alley'') is a 1957 British Warwick Films crime film noir shot in CinemaScope and starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano and Sid James. It concerns an Interpol effort to stamp out a major drug-smuggling cartel in numerous countries. Mature plays an American narcotics officer, with Howard as a drug baron. One review described the film as a "feeble thriller," although it praised Howard's performance. In the United States, the film was released as a double feature with '' The Brothers Rico''. Plot Charles Sturgis is an FBI agent on the trail of a drug-smuggling operation. The crazed criminal mastermind Frank McNally has strangled Sturgis' sister to death. Gina Broger is Frank's beautiful courier. Cast * Victor Mature as Charles Sturgis * Anita Ekberg as Gina Broger * Trevor Howard as Frank McNally * Bonar Colleano as Amalio * Dorothy Alison as Helen * André Morell as Commissioner Breckner * Martin Benson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War And Peace (1956 Film)
''War and Peace'' ( it, Guerra e pace) is a 1956 epic historical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel of the same name. It is directed and co-written by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti for Paramount Pictures. The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre, and Mel Ferrer as Andrei, along with Oskar Homolka, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Jeremy Brett, John Mills and Anita Ekberg in one of her first breakthrough roles. The musical score was composed by Nino Rota and conducted by Franco Ferrara. ''War and Peace'' opened on August 21, 1956 to a mixed reception, with some reviewers critical with the film truncating much of Tolstoy's novel, and the casting of 50-year-old Henry Fonda as the 20-year-old Pierre Bezukhov. It received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, Best Cinematography (Color), and Best Costume Design (Color). It was also nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milanese In Naples
''Milanese in Naples'' (Italian: ''Milanesi a Napoli'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Enzo Di Gianni and starring Eva Nova, Ugo Tognazzi and Carlo Campanini.Marlow-Mann p.193 The film's sets were designed by the art director Oscar D'Amico. Synopsis A northern industrialist arrives in Naples with the idea of building a factory to mass-produce the pizza specialities of the region, causing uproar from the locals. Eventually the two sides are reconciled through a double marriage. Cast * Eva Nova as Immacolata Santolillo * Ugo Tognazzi as Franco Baraldi * Carlo Campanini as Commendator Brambilla * Enrico Viarisio as Professor Clemente Simoni * Dolores Palumbo as Dottoressa Dora Vincenzi * Nino Taranto as Luigi Martiello * Carlo Sposito as Assistente del Prof. Simoni * Enzo Turco as 'Bersagliere', pizzaiolo fratello di Immacolata * Lilia Landi as Milly * Roberto Bruni as Ing, Velenzani * Loris Gizzi as Presidente della società * Amedeo Girardi as Attore ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossed Swords (1954 Film)
''Crossed Swords'' or ''The Teacher of Don Juan'' (Italian: ''Il Maestro di Don Giovanni'') is a 1954 historical swashbuckling adventure film directed by Milton Krims and starring Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida and Nadia Gray. It was co-production between Italy and the United States. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arrigo Equini. Plot The film is set in Early Modern Italy in the Duchy of Sidona. Raniero and Renzo are two friends who have been travelling together for two years, having adventures, fighting duels and womanizing. Raniero is the son of the Duke of Sidona, and the elder Renzo his Don Juan-type mentor. On their way back to Sidona after a two-year absence, Renzo and Raniero encounter Fulvia, a former lover of Renzo. She attacks him then invites him to her estate. Fulvia's rich husband Gennarelli is at a meeting at Sidona. Pavoncello, the Duke's counselor, is suggesting a new law where all men under twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bread, Love And Dreams
''Bread, Love and Dreams'' ( it, Pane, amore e fantasia) is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award. Plot The film is set in Sagliena, an imaginary small town in central Italy; Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, an elderly womanizer who will have to adapt to the monotonous and quiet life of the village, is transferred here immediately after the war. Supported by the maid Caramella, the marshal runs the local police station. Here he meets "Pizzicarella la Bersagliera", a young local girl secretly in love with the carabiniere Stelluti. At first the marshal tries to get engaged to the "Bersagliera", as Paoletta, the sacristan of the parish, is in love with the carabiniere Stelluti, but the latter is actually in love with the Bersagliera and wants her mother to know her. So, thanks to the intervention of Don Emidio, who informs the marshal, Stelluti and the Bersagliera get engaged while the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Holiday
''Roman Holiday'' is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won. The script was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit, and Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him. Trumbo's credit was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003. On December 19, 2011, full credit for Trumbo's work was restored. Blacklisted director Bernard Vorhaus worked on the film as an assistant director under a pseudonym. The film was shot at the Cinecittà studios and on location around Rome during the "Hollywood on the Tiber" era. The film was screened in the 14th Venice Film Festival within the official program. In 1999, ''Roman Holiday'' was selected for preservation in the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamo Tutti Inquilini
''Siamo tutti inquilini'' (literally: We are all tenants) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Aldo Fabrizi. Production The film is a 98 minute black and white that was produced for Documento. Plot Anna has been since childhood the housemaid of an old lady, and has inherited from her a beautiful apartment. She now works in a cafe`, but struggles to keep up with the expenses of the luxurious housing complex. She is alone in the world and apart from her loving fiance Carlo, only the wise caretaker of the building Augusto shows her some fatherly affection. The greedy and tyrannical administrator of the building, the dentist Talloni, would like to exploit the financial difficulties of Anna to buy her out, offering through a figurehead to acquire the apartment much below its real value. Augusto and the lawyer Sassi figure out the scheme, and decide to defend Anna's interests. They first manage to delay for few days the official decision to force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
