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Angelo Infanti
Angelo Infanti (; 16 February 1939 – 12 October 2010) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1961 and 2010. He was born on 16 February 1939 in Zagarolo, Italy. He died on 12 October 2010 in Tivoli, Italy due to cardiac arrest. Infanti is best known to non-Italian audiences as Fabrizio in ''The Godfather''. Fabrizio was a bodyguard to Michael Corleone who was hiding in Sicily. Fabrizio betrays Michael by setting up explosives in his car, but kills his new bride instead. In the novel, Fabrizio is later shot dead in revenge for the killing. A scene was filmed of him being killed by the Corleones using a car bomb but was cut from the motion picture before its theatrical release. It appears in the 1977 ''The Godfather: A Novel for Television'', which combined the first two films – ''The Godfather'' and ''The Godfather Part II'', adding back scenes that had been previously cut and telling the story chronologically beginning with Vito Andolini' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talcum Powder (film)
''Talcum Powder'' (Original title: ''Borotalco'') is a 1982 Italian comedy film written, starring and directed by Carlo Verdone. The film received multiple David di Donatello awards in Italy for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Score and Best Supporting Actor (to Angelo Infanti). It also won Silver Ribbons for Best Actress and for Best Score. Plot summary Sergio Benvenuti (Carlo Verdone) is a meek and timid young man who works as a door-to-door salesman; naturally, his disposition makes incredibly hard for him to convince potential customers to subscribe to the offers he peddles. Desperate to improve his sales' rate, he asks for the help of a more outgoing and successful colleague, Nadia, who agrees to take him with her to 'show him the ropes' of a successful sales pitch. Due to a mishap Sergio reaches alone the abode of a colorful, over-the-top character, who introduces himself as 'Manuel Fantoni' and entertains him with tall tales about his incredible life an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Agent Super Dragon
''Secret Agent Super Dragon'' (Italian: ''New York chiama Superdrago'') is a 1966 international co-production Eurospy film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Ray Danton as the titular secret agent. Plot The plot centers on a secret agent and an evil organization that is drugging people for world domination. After his colleague is killed, the eponymous Secret Agent Super Dragon comes out of retirement to investigate. The main character discovers that the culprits in this crime are actually part of an international crime syndicate, and that they are smuggling the drugs in imported vases. Cast * Ray Danton as Bryan Cooper (Super Dragon) * Marisa Mell as Charity Farrel * Margaret Lee as Cynthia Fulton *Jess Hahn as Baby Face *Carlo D'Angelo as Fernand Lamas *Adriana Ambesi as Verna *Marco Guglielmi as Professor Kurge * Solvi Stubing as Elizabeth *Gérard Herter as Coleman *Jacques Herlin as Ross *Benito Stefanelli as Kirk Release ''Secret Agent Super Dragon'' was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Goddess
A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in both monotheistic Monotheism is the belief that there is only one deity, an all-supreme being that is universally referred to as God. Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1974). "Monotheism". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxfor ... and polytheism, polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion. (The intimate connection between "Religious war, holy war" and the "one true god" belief of monotheism has been noted by many scholars, including Jonathan Kirsch in his book ''God Against The Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism'' and Joseph Campbell in ''The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology''.) The following is a list of war deities: North Africa Egyptian *Anhur, go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piedone Lo Sbirro - Flatfoot, The Knock Out Cop
''Flatfoot'' ( it, Piedone lo sbirro) is a 1973 ''poliziottesco''-comedy film directed by Steno. The film starring Bud Spencer obtained a great commercial success, generated three sequels. It is followed by Flatfoot in Hong Kong, Flatfoot in Africa and Flatfoot in Egypt. The title song is performed by Santo & Johnny. Plot summary In Naples the Inspector Rizzo, nicknamed "Flatfoot", defeats a gang of drug traffickers. The criminals, from Marseille, were peddling drugs using frozen fish, but Flatfoot has managed to arrest them, with the help of a boss of the Neapolitan underworld, called Manomozza (snipped hand). After the arrest however, Flatfoot discovers that Manomozza did the double game and now intends to forge an alliance with the traffickers "Marseilles". Flatfoot, thanks to the tip from a friend, finds the place and time of the meeting between drug dealers, subdues them and sends everyone to jail. Cast * Bud Spencer: Inspector "Flatfoot" Rizzo * Adalberto Maria Merli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Kind Of Love (film)
''Questa specie d'amore'' (aka, ''This Kind of Love'') is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Bevilacqua. It is based on the novel with the same name written by Bevilacqua himself. The film was awarded with the David di Donatello for best film and two Nastro d'Argento awards for best screenplay and for best story. Cast *Jean Seberg: Giovanna *Ugo Tognazzi: Federico/ Father of Federico *Ewa Aulin: Isina *Angelo Infanti: Bernardo *Evi Maltagliati Evi Maltagliati (11 August 1908 – 27 April 1986) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. Life and career Born in Florence as Evelina Maltagliati, she started her career at debuted in the theater just 15 years old, in the Galli-Gua ...: Mother of Federico * Fernando Rey: Father of Giovanna * Marisa Belli References External links * 1972 films Films directed by Alberto Bevilacqua Italian drama films Films scored by Ennio Morricone Films based on Italian novels 1972 drama films 1970s Italian-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valachi Papers (film)
''The Valachi Papers'' is a 1972 Italian-French crime neo noir directed by Terence Young. It is an adaptation of the 1968 non-fiction book of the same name by Peter Maas, with a screenplay by Stephen Geller. It tells the story of Joseph Valachi, a Mafia informant in the early 1960s who was the first ever mafioso to acknowledge the organization's existence. The film stars Charles Bronson as Valachi and Lino Ventura as crime boss Vito Genovese, with Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Guido Leontini, Amedeo Nazzari, Fausto Tozzi, Pupella Maggio, and Angelo Infanti. Plot Joseph Valachi is an aging prisoner in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, who was imprisoned for smuggling heroin. The boss of his crime family, Vito Genovese, is imprisoned there as well. Genovese is certain that Valachi is an informant, and gives him the " kiss of death," whereupon Valachi kisses him back. Valachi mistakenly kills a fellow prisoner who he wrongly thinks is a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Girl In Australia
''A Girl in Australia'' ( it, Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata andsome honest emigrant in Australia would marry chaste fellow-countrywoman}) is a 1971 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa, with stars Alberto Sordi and Claudia Cardinale. Plot At the end of World War II, the promise of jobs and a chance to start a new life induced tens of thousands of young Italians to join the post-war immigration to Australia. In 1971, having lived about twenty-five years Down Under, one of those immigrants, middle-aged Amedeo Battipaglia, a lineman in the remote New South Wales settlement bearing the (fictional) name of Bun Bun Ga, several kilometers from the outback city of Broken Hill, is about to meet Carmela, his prospective bride from Rome, with whom he has been corresponding. Each of them misrepresented facts to the other — Carmela, a very attractive Calabrian woman in her early thirties, is a semiliterate prostitute seeking an opportunity to get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Mans (film)
''Le Mans'' is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin. The film began as a John Sturges project, before he was replaced during filming. It features actual footage captured during the 1970 race held the previous June. Plot Top flight Le Mans racing driver Michael Delaney spots former rival Piero Belgetti's widow Lisa buying flowers in the days before the race; he then drives to the scene of the accident which killed her husband the previous year. He has a flashback of Belgetti losing control of his Ferrari, forcing him to crash as well. Like many others, Lisa appears to feel Delaney was responsible, at least in part, for the accident. At the race she is understandably downcast while working through her emotions. In an awkward scene, Delaney looks for a place to sit in a nearly empty track commissary, only to ask Lisa if he may join her, claiming that it is the only seat left. There is obvious tension be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Called Sledge
''A Man Called Sledge'' is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film starring James Garner in an extremely offbeat role as a grimly evil thief, and featuring Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins and Wayde Preston. The film was written by Vic Morrow and Frank Kowalski, and directed by Morrow in Techniscope. Garner wrote in his memoirs that this movie was "one of the few times I've played a heavy and one of the last. I wish I could remember why I let Dino de Laurentiis talk me into this turkey. The poster says "Not suitable for children." It should say "not suitable for consumption." Plot Luther Sledge (Garner), a wanted outlaw, is visiting his prostitute girlfriend, Ria (Antonelli), when one of his gang is shot over a poker game. Sledge kills the murderers, and is recognized by an old man (Marley), who follows him. Sledge waylays the old man, who then relates a tale of a periodic gold shipment that is heavily guarded by forty riders, but stops at a prison where the old man was incarcerated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragment Of Fear
''Fragment of Fear'' is a 1970 British thriller film directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Roland Culver, Flora Robson and Arthur Lowe. It was adapted from the 1965 novel '' A Fragment of Fear'' by John Bingham. Plot Tim Brett (Hemmings) is visiting his rich but estranged aunt (Flora Robson) in an Italian coastal hotel catering mainly for old ladies. On a tour of Pompeii visitors find the body of his aunt - who has been strangled. An elaborate funeral follows. At the funeral Tim has a conversation with Signor Bardoni, the hotel owner, who organised the funeral. He says it is ironic that his aunt has been killed by a criminal when she had spent her life "helping criminals". A card on a wreath at the funeral says it is from "The Stepping Stones". He is a former drug addict who has written a book about his experience and has been published. He has been clean for about a year. He had recently become acquainted with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breach (film)
''The Breach'' (french: "La Rupture") is a 1970 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the novel ''The Balloon Man'' by Charlotte Armstrong. The film was also known as ''The Breakup'' at times in its release in the United States. The film had a total of 927,678 admissions in France. Plot Hélène Régnier's ( Audran) mentally ill husband Charles ( Drouot) injures their son, Michel, in a violent rage. Hélène beats Charles to the floor with a frying pan, flees and starts divorce proceedings. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who never approved of his marriage and are determined to secure custody of Michel. While the boy is recovering in a local hospital, Hélène moves to a boarding house nearby. The Régniers hire Paul Thomas (Cassel), an impoverished family acquaintance, to find damaging material on Hélène to help them secure custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia ( Rouvel), plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Of Mata Hari
''Children of Mata Hari'' (french: La Peau de Torpedo, it, Dossier 212 - destinazione morte, german: Der Mann mit der Torpedohaut, also known as ''Pill of Death'' and ''The Deathmakers'') is a 1970 international co-production crime film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Klaus Kinski. Cast * Stéphane Audran as Dominique * Klaus Kinski as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I * Lilli Palmer as Helen * Michel Constantin as Coster * Angelo Infanti as Jean / Gianni * Jean Claudio as La Filature * Frédéric de Pasquale as Nicolas Baslier * Noëlle Adam as L'amie de Dominique * Philippe March as Le vendeur (as Aimé de March) * Christine Fabréga as Sylvianne Collet * Jacques Harden as L'inspecteur de Police de Paris * Micheline Luccioni as L'employée des postes * Georges Lycan as Torpédo II * Philippine Pascal * Bernard Musson as L'inspecteur de Police de Fécamp * Roger Lumont as Le chauffeur routier * Robert Favart * Catherine Jacobsen as La 'boîte aux lettres' * Henri Gilabert * Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
