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Carlo Pisacane (actor)
Carlo Pisacane (February 2, 1889 – June 9, 1974) was an Italian actor who performed in over 70 films, including spaghetti Westerns like ''Death Rides a Horse'' (1968) and parodies like ''For a Few Dollars Less'' (1966). He's best remembered for his appearances in comedic classics, such as ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' and its sequel ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'', where he played the elderly and gluttonous small-time crook Capannelle. He also is known for his role as the miserly Jewish merchant Abacuc in ''L'Armata Brancaleone''. Selected filmography * '' La Tavola dei Poveri'' (1932) * ''Paisà'' (1946) * '' Alarm Bells'' (1949) * '' Processo alla città'' (1952) * '' Un Ladro in Paradiso'' (1952) * '' ...e Napoli canta!'' (1953) * '' La bella mugnaia'' (1955) * ''The Man Who Wagged His Tail'' (1957) * ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' (1958) * ''Men and Noblemen'' (1959) * ''La sceriffa'' (1959) * ''Il raccomandato di ferro'' (1959) * ''Prepotenti più di prima'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Deal On Madonna Street
''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' ( it, I soliti ignoti; released in the UK as ''Persons Unknown'') is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original Italian title literally translates as "the usual unknown ones", which is roughly equivalent to the English phrase "the usual suspects". The name of the Roman street in the English title is a slight mistranslation, as the Italian name of the fictional Roman street on which the midnight burglary in the film takes place is the ''Via delle Madonne'' (The Street of the Madonnas) rather than "Madonna Street". Compounding the confusion is the fact that the real Roman street on which the scene was filmed is the ''Via delle tre cannelle'' (The Street of the Three Spouts), rather than the ''Via delle tre Madonne'' (The Street of the Three Madonnas). The film is a comedy about a group of small-time thieves and ne'er-do-wells who bungle an attempt to burgle a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Wagged His Tail
''The Man Who Wagged His Tail'' ( es, Un ángel pasó por Brooklyn, it, Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn, also known as ''An Angel Over Brooklyn'' and ''An Angel Passed Over Brooklyn'') is a 1957 Spanish-Italian fantasy-comedy film directed by Ladislao Vajda. Plot Mr. Bozzi is the owner and lessor of many apartments and houses in Brooklyn's immigrant communities. He is a stubborn upstart who is only interested in his own profit and has no compassion for his tenants, who are often poor and in need. To prevent beggars from knocking or ringing his bell, he has trained himself to make dog noises. When one day a fairy tale seller appears to him, she curses him into a dog that only human love can transform back. Bozzi, pushed around, hungry, unwanted, experiences life as merciless and cold. Pursued by other dogs, chased away by people with whom he can no longer communicate, he roams the streets until he meets the boy Tonino, who takes care of him. The two become friends, and when some t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto And Peppino Divided In Berlin
''Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino'', internationally released as ''Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin'', is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Plot Antonio leaves Italy for Berlin to reach Peppino, who works the miserable job of "magliaro". Since he is very poor, Antonio makes a pact with the daughter of former Nazi admiral Attila Canarinis, who is his perfect double, so that in West Berlin he will be tried by the Americans for war crimes. Antonio escapes from jail, but the troubles for him are not finished, because in East Berlin he is mistaken by the Russians for a secret agent, due to a misinterpretation of the Neapolitan book "La smorfia". Cast *Totò: Antonio La Puzza / Aunt nun / Admiral Attila Canarinis *Peppino De Filippo: Peppino Pagliuca *Nadine Sanders: Greta Canarinis *John Karlsen: the former attendant of Canarinis *Luigi Pavese: the Russian General *Robert Alda: the judge *Renato Terra: the Russian lawyer *Dante Maggio: magliaro *Carlo P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Italian Brigands
''I briganti italiani'' (internationally released as ''The Italian Brigands'' and ''Seduction of the South'') is a 1962 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Camerini. It was shot in Cerreto Sannita.''Una passeggiata nella storia'', Di Lauro, 2003 Plot During the Italian unification the revolutionist Santo Carbone abducts Colonel Breviglieri of the Piedmontese army. Cast * Vittorio Gassman: 'O Caporale * Ernest Borgnine: Sante Carbone * Rosanna Schiaffino: Mariantonia * Katy Jurado: Assunta Carbone * Bernard Blier: Colonel Breviglieri * Micheline Presle: La Marchesa * Akim Tamiroff: 'O Zingaro * Philippe Leroy: 'O Zelluso * Mario Feliciani: Don Ramiro * Carlo Taranto: 'O Scarrafone * Carlo Pisacane: Filuccio * Guido Celano: Muso * Carlo Giuffrè Carlo Giuffrè (3 December 1928 – 1 November 2018) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and a stage director. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1942 and 2002. Biography Giuffrè was born in Naples, Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Joy Of Living
''The Joy of Living'' ( it, Che gioia vivere, french: Quelle joie de vivre) is a 1961 Italian-French comedy film directed by René Clément. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The story is set in Rome, in the year 1921. Ulisse ( Alain Delon) enrolls in the Italian Fascist party because he cannot find any employment. The first task entrusted to him by the party leads Ulysses to the printer Fossati, where he's hired as an apprentice. This brings him into contact with a family of anarchists, who will turn him into a reluctant hero for love of the beautiful Franca ( Barbara Lass). However, at a time when he must make a decisive choice, Ulysses obeys neither the anarchists nor the fascists, and risks his life for a different idea of freedom. Cast * Alain Delon as Ulisse Cecconato * Barbara Lass as Franca Fossati * Gino Cervi as Olinto Fossati * Rina Morelli as Rosa Fossati * Carlo Pisacane as Grandfather "Fossati" * Paolo Stoppa as Hairdresser * Giampiero Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto, Fabrizi And The Young People Today
''Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today'' ( it, Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.Aprà p.101 Plot Two bourgeois families live in Rome: the family of the " Cavaliere del Lavoro" Antonio Cocozza, owner of a pastry shop, father of Gabriella, and that of professor Giuseppe D'Amore, father of Carlo. Carlo and Gabriella love each other happily, so when they think of getting married they want the two families to get to know each other. While the women make friends, Antonio and Giuseppe immediately begin to fight for anything, and the quarrels continue even when the couple have to choose the wedding dress, the house where to move, the organization of the wedding and reception. Gabriella and Carlo, tired of the constant bickering of the fathers, decide to run away, wanting to scare the parents, to get the wedding at all costs. Cast * Totò as Antonio Cocozza * Aldo Fabrizi as Giuseppe D'Amore * Christine Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Piaceri Dello Scapolo
''I piaceri dello scapolo'' is a 1960 Italian film directed by Giulio Petroni and starring Sylva Koscina and Mario Carotenuto. Plot Two bachelors who are no longer young rent a garçonnière. Their enthusiasm lasts very little, however, as all their attempts to use it to bring dates there appear to be useless. Cast * Sylva Koscina as Eby * Mario Carotenuto as Mario * Memmo Carotenuto as Memmo * Gina Rovere as Franca * Andrea Checchi as Eng. Rocchetti * Marisa Merlini as Evelina * Nanda Primavera as Evelina's mother * Mario Passante as the friar * Carlo Pisacane as the doorman * Graziella Granata as Gianna Censorship When ''I piaceri dello scapolo'' was first released in Italy in 1960 the Committee for the Theatrical Review of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities rated it as VM16: not suitable for children under 16. In addition the committee imposed the following revisions: 1) the sequences in which the prostitute Franca appears half-dressed will be shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passionate Thief (film)
''The Passionate Thief'' ( it, Risate di gioia) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Anna Magnani and Totò. Plot Two friends (Toto and Magnani) live by their wits working as comedians and cabaret at Cinecittà, before being invited to friends' parties or masked balls during New Year's Eve in Rome. The two, however, even though they make people laugh all the time in public, live an inner conflict, namely that the two have always to be aware to give a smile to someone, but they can never be rich and happy because they are street artists and with a precarious wage. Cast * Anna Magnani as Gioia Fabbricotti (alias Tortorella) * Totò as Umberto "Infortunio" Pennazzuto * Ben Gazzara as Lello * Fred Clark as The American * Edy Vessel as The girl * Gina Rovere as Mimi * Toni Ucci Antonio "Toni" Ucci (13 January 1922 – 16 or 19 February 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Traffic Policeman
''The Traffic Policeman'' ( it, Il vigile) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi in the lead role. A representative of the ''commedia all'italiana'' genre, it tells the story of a traffic policeman and the injustice he endures for daring to enforce the law at the expense of people in power. Plot Otello Celletti is a war veteran from a small town in Latium. He has been unemployed since the end of the war and lives with his father, wife Amalia and their son, at the expense of his brother-in-law. When he is offered a menial job in the town's markets, Otello refuses in disdain. After fiercely insisting with the town's Mayor and by leveraging his veteran status, Otello eventually obtains a position with the local traffic police. Though he performs his duties poorly, Otello still abuses his authority to exact petty revenge upon those who had been teasing him while he was jobless. One day, Otello finds himself offering roadside assistance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Lazarillo De Tormes
''El Lazarillo de Tormes'' is a 1959 Spanish- Italian film directed by César Fernández Ardavín. An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel ''Lazarillo de Tormes'' (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters. Plot The film focuses on the childhood of Lazarillo (Marco Paoletti), a young man from a very humble family who is entrusted by his mother to a blind man (Carlos Casaravilla) to serve as his apprentice. Cast * Marco Paoletti - Lazarillo * Juan José Menéndez - The Squire * Carlos Casaravilla - Ciego (Blind Man) * Memmo Carotenuto - Cómico (The Actor) * Antonio Molino Rojo - Alguacil (Bailiff) * Margarita Lozano - Antona * Emilio Santiago - Sacristán de la Sagra * Pilar Sanclemente - Ciega (Blind Girl) * Mary Paz Pondal - Moza 1ª (Girl #1) * Ana Rivero - Moza 2ª (Girl #2) * Juana Cáceres - Mujer sacristán * Luis Roses - Tejero * Victoria Rambla - Viuda (Widow) * Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piece Of The Sky
''Piece of the Sky'' ( it, Un ettaro di cielo) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Aglauco Casadio. Plot Severino Balestra, a peddler who goes around the various village festivals of the Po delta selling trinkets, returns to Migliarino, where three elderly people live who make ends meet with a few barber jobs, or poaching eels. Marina also lives there, the young woman who had an affair with him the previous year and who now works in the village inn. Severino tells the three naive old unlikely stories about big cities and progress. In the evening, after unsuccessfully trying to spend the night with Marina in the inn, Severino stops by the three elderly people and here proposes them a deal: the sale of pieces of the sky, which will make them rich because they will be able to get the rent paid from the planes. that pass from there. Of course - he tells them - they will only be able to use the property when they are dead. The three naive elders accept the deal and give him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prepotenti Più Di Prima
''Prepotenti più di prima'' is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Aldo Fabrizi. It is the sequel of '' I prepotenti''. Cast * Aldo Fabrizi - Cesare Pinelli * Nino Taranto - Domenico Esposito * Ave Ninchi - Clelia Pinelli * Luca Ronconi - Gennarino Esposito * Alice Sandro - Marcella * Virgilio Riento - Il maresciallo * Margherita Bagni - La signora Esposito * Ferruccio Amendola - Alfredo Pinelli * Anna Campori - Signora Norma * Alberto Sorrentino - Mimmo * Nino Vingelli - Il barista References External links *''Prepotenti più di prima''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film ... 1959 films 1950s Italian-language films 1959 comedy films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by Mario Mattoli Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
