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Ennio Balbo
Ennio Balbo (18 April 1922 – 18 June 1989) was an Italian film, television and voice actor. Biography Born in Naples, Balbo made his debut on stage immediately after the Second World War alongside Paola Borboni and Lamberto Picasso in Luigi Pirandello's ''Così è se vi pare''. He was later a member of the theater company of Gino Cervi, as well as one of the members of the "Society of the Four" alongside Valeria Moriconi, Lia Zoppelli and Gianni Agus. He was also very active as a character actor in films, mainly in villain roles; Balbo took part to numerous Spaghetti Western films in which he was usually credited as Edward Bell. Balbo appeared in over 45 films between 1958 and 1988. He appeared in an episode of the short-lived 1974 ABC police drama ''Nakia'', credited as Edward Bell. Selected filmography * ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'' (1959) - Poliziotto calvo (voice, uncredited) * ''The Police Commissioner'' (1962) * ''A Queen for Caesar'' (1962) - Theodoto * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia Kidnapped
''Sardinia Kidnapped'' ( it, Sequestro di persona, "Kidnapped"), also known as ''Ransom in Sardinia'', ''Island of Crime'' and ''Unlawful Restraint'', is a 1968 Italian poliziotteschi film directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi and starring Franco Nero, Charlotte Rampling and Frank Wolff. Plot University student Francesco is kidnapped by bandits in Sardinia. His English tourist friend, Christina, a powerless witness to the kidnapping, rushes off to warn the family. Gavino, a childhood friend of Francesco's, advises Christina against talking to the police, but she does and the police begin searching for the kidnappers. In a firefight between gangsters and police, Francesco is killed, but the bandits hide his body. Meanwhile, Francesco's father offers to sell his lands to Osilio, a wealthy landowner, to get the money needed to pay the ransom for his son. Later, Gavino lets himself be seized by the bandits, and he convinces them that their leader is betraying and exploiting them. The band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audace Colpo Dei Soliti Ignoti
''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'' (also known as ''Fiasco in Milan'' or ''Hold-up à la milanaise'') is a 1959 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy. The film stars Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori and Claudia Cardinale. It is the sequel to Mario Monicelli's ''I soliti ignoti'' (1958) and is followed by ''Big Deal After 20 Years'' (1985). Plot A Milanese gangster contacts Peppe (Gassman); he has identified him and his accomplices as the perpetrators of the bungled attempt at the Madonna Street pawn shop. His offer is to reunite the same men for a daring robbery in Milan, where the local offices of football betting pool A betting pool, syndicate, sports lottery, sweep, or office pool if done at work, is a form of gambling, specifically a variant of parimutuel betting influenced by lotteries, where gamblers pay a fixed price into a ''pool'' (from which taxes and ... Totocalcio shift the weekly revenue on Sunday afternoon via a common car with just an accountant a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pardon, Are You For Or Against?
''Pardon, Are You For or Against?'' ( it, Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario?) is a 1966 Italian comedy film written, directed and starred by Alberto Sordi. The title refers to debates on the issue of divorce, still illegal in Italy at the time of the film's release. Plot Tullio Conforti is a successful entrepreneur who is opposed to divorce on religious grounds. While claiming to be a role model, and that no other man is more faithful than him, he is ''de facto'' separated from his wife and has relations with many women. Cast *Alberto Sordi as Tullio Conforti *Silvana Mangano as Emanuela *Giulietta Masina as Anna *Anita Ekberg as Baroness Olga *Paola Pitagora as Valeria Conforti *Laura Antonelli as Piera *Bibi Andersson as Ingrid *Franca Marzi as Camilla * Lina Alberti as Celeste *Tina Aumont as Romina *Mario Pisu as Baron Renato Santambrogio *Eugene Walter as Igor *Mirella Pamphili as Fiorella Conforti *Maria Cumani Quasimodo as Baroness Cornianu *Caterina Boratto as Agne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spies Strike Silently
''Spies Strike Silently'' ( it, Le spie uccidono in silenzio, es, Los espías matan en silencio, also known as ''Spies Kill Silently'') is a 1966 Spanish-Italian Eurospy film written and directed by Mario Caiano and starring Lang Jeffries.Marco Giusti. ''007 all'italiana''. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. . Cast * Lang Jeffries as Michael Drum * Emma Danieli as Grace Holt * Andrea Bosic as Rachid * Erika Blanc as Pamela Kohler * José Bódalo as Inspector Craig * Mario Lanfranchi as Lt. Fouad * José Marco as Harry Brook * Enzo Consoli as Edward * Umberto Ceriani as Prof. Freeman * Jesús Tordesillas Jesús Tordesillas Fernández (28 January 1893 – 24 March 1973) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1921 and 1973. He starred in the film '' Reckless'' which was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Selected ... as Prof. Roland Bergson * María Badmajew as Jane Freeman * Gaetano Quartararo as Killer References External links * Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
''Seven Golden Men Strike Again'' ( it, Il grande colpo dei sette uomini d'oro, lang-en, ''The Big Hit of the Seven Golden Men'') is a 1966 film directed by Marco Vicario. It is the sequel of ''Seven Golden Men''. Plot The Seven Golden Men successfully pull off their gold heist at the Commercial Bank of Italy, but just as they are about to make their getaway, most of them are suddenly captured by US government agents. Albert and Giorgia escape, but later rejoin their comrades and strike a deal with Frank Rogers, head of the FBI and the mastermind behind their capture. The Seven Golden Men are assigned by the US government to kidnap the dictator general of a Latin American island nation who is allied with the Soviets and bring him in for questioning before he is to be surreptitiously returned to his home. Giorgia is sent ahead to facilitate the kidnapping. She is discovered and captured, all according to plan, and posing as an American journalist, she uses her charm to turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss The Other Sheik
''Kiss the Other Sheik'' ( it, Oggi, domani, dopodomani, also known as ''The Man, the Woman and the Money'') is a 1965 Italian comedy film in three segments, directed by Eduardo De Filippo, Marco Ferreri, and Luciano Salce. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Catherine Spaak, Pamela Tiffin, and Luciano Salce.Tom Lisanti. ''Pamela Tiffin: Hollywood to Rome, 1961–1974''. McFarland. . Chapter: "Kiss the Other Sheik", pp. 147-151. The literal English translation of the Italian title is "Today, Tomorrow and the Day After Tomorrow". Cast * Marcello Mastroianni - Mario (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") / Michele (segment "L'ora di punta", "La moglie bionda") * Catherine Spaak - Giovanna (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") * Virna Lisi - Dorothea (segment "L'ora di punta") * Luciano Salce - Arturo Rossi (segment "L'ora di punta") * Pamela Tiffin - Pepita (segment "La moglie bionda") * Lelio Luttazzi - Michele's Friend (segment "La moglie bionda") * Raimondo Vianello - Police Commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Golden Men
''Seven Golden Men'' ( it, Sette uomini d'oro) is a 1965 Italian crime-comedy film directed by Marco Vicario. A film about a bank heist, it follows a gang of men and one woman. It followed the same story line as '' Topkapi'', and has a sequel, ''Seven Golden Men Strike Again''. Plot The film revolves around an internationally mixed team of high-profile heisters specializing in gold thefts, led by Albert the Professor and his seductive lover Giorgia. Their target is the Swiss National Bank in Geneva, which is hoarding a large amount of gold bullions in their high-security vault; while Albert directs the operation from his hotel room, Giorgia acts as a decoy and provides information from inside the bank with hidden cameras, a homing device placed inside the vault, and explanations gleamed from the bank's manager. The other six men - Adolf, August, Aldo, Anthony, Alfonso and Alfred - posing as sanitation workers and equipped with a truckload of gadgets, enter the sewer system r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agent 077 From The Orient With Fury
''Agent 077 From the Orient With Fury'' or ''Agent 077 Fury in the Orient'' or ''Agente 077 dall'oriente con furore'' or ''Fury on the Bosphorus'' is a 1965 Italian/Spanish/French international co-production action spy adventure film; the second of the Secret Agent 077 film series directed by Sergio Grieco. A Eurospy film, inspired by the James Bond series, it involves a scientist who has invented a Disintegrator gun capable of mass destruction being kidnapped by a criminal gang for lethal usage. Cast * Ken Clark ... Dick Malloy/Jack Clifton in the German version - Agent 077 * Margaret Lee ... Evelyn Stone *Evi Marandi ... Romy Kurtz, Prof. Kurtz' daughter *Fabienne Dali ... Simone Degas *Philippe Hersent ... Heston - Europachef CIA * Mikaela ... Dolores Lopez (as Michaela) *Fernando Sancho ... Restaurant guest * (as Loris Barton) *Ennio Balbo ... Professor Kurtz * ... Goldwyn's blond puncher *Franco Ressel ... Goldwyn (as Frank Ressel) * Tomás Blanco ... Auctioneer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Possessed (1965 Film)
''The Possessed'' ( it, La donna del lago, lit=The Lady of the Lake) is a 1965 Italian mystery film written and directed by Luigi Bazzoni and Franco Rossellini and starring Peter Baldwin, Virna Lisi, Pia Lindstrom and Philippe Leroy. It is based on the novel ''La donna del lago'' by Giovanni Comisso. The film was years later released on U.S. television as ''Love, Hate and Dishonor''. Plot Bernard (Peter Baldwin), a well-known writer, arrives in a small Italian town near a lake to spend his winter vacation. He checks into an old hotel owned by Enrico and his daughter Irma (Valentina Cortese), secretly hoping to become reacquainted with their maid Tilde (he had developed quite a crush on her the last time he stayed there, and had even stalked her a few times). He is shocked to hear that Tilde (Virna Lisi) committed suicide the previous winter, and then learns that she was pregnant. Apparently she not only ingested poison, but she also managed to slash her own throat. Bernard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terror-Creatures From The Grave
''Terror-Creatures from the Grave'' ( it, 5 tombe per un medium) is a 1965 horror film directed by Domenico Massimo Pupillo. The film was an international co-production between Italy and the United States through M.B.S. Cinematografica, G.I.A. Cinematografica and International Entertainment Corp. Plot An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's widow and daughter claim that the late lord could summon the souls of ancient plague victims and that his spirit roams the castle. Soon, townspeople begin to die in gruesome, violent ways when the dead lord and plague victims return to exact revenge. Cast Production Before 2015, Ralph Zucker was credited as an alias of Massimo Pupillo, because it was typical for Italian filmmakers to credit themselves under Anglicized names. Producer Ralph Zucker was an American child actor in the early 1950s. In 1958, Zucker moved to Italy to work as an editor and producer. In an issue of ''Vide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casanova 70
''Casanova 70'' is a 1965 Italian comedy film produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Enrico Maria Salerno and Michèle Mercier. Plot NATO officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti is a ladies' man with an unusual libido: he can only seduce women in situations in which his life is in danger. He breaks into a Corsican girlfriend's house, and the girl, armed and voluptuous, believes Andrea to be a criminal and nearly shoots him before being seduced, but she later ends their relationship. Later, while spending an afternoon with an Asian air stewardess, Andrea tries to achieve arousal by concocting a story about a dying relative, but the stewardess learns the sham and the liaison ends disastrously. Frustrated with his condition, Andrea visits a psychiatrist. He discloses that his problem began in adulthood, but that he has flirted with woman and suffered from the consequences throughout his life. The psychiatrist recommends that Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Corruzione
''Corruption'' ( it, La corruzione) is a 1963 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. Plot A young man upon finishing college announces to his publisher father that he wants to become a priest. The father who wants his son to take over the family business does not like this idea at all. He proposes a yacht trip to his son that will give them the chance to spend a few days together and maybe find a middle ground. Dad also invites his mistress without telling his son. During the trip there is a lot of sexual tension between the young man and the mistress. Despite the fact that she is his father's mistress the young man sleeps with her. The next day he asks for his father's forgiveness. After the trip the young man visits the company where he comes across a bizarre incident. One of the employees who was falsely accused of embezzlement commits suicide. Seeing that his father was responsible for the suicide, the young man feels sick and decides he has no place in such a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
