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Erminio Spalla
Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight Boxer (boxing), boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera (district of Milan), Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer. He was the first Italian to win a European boxing title, which he did in 1923. He lost it in 1926 to Paulino Uzcudun and retired from boxing the next year, though he briefly returned to the ring in 1934 and won all three of his final bouts. He returned to art after retiring from the ring. In October 1937 he debuted as an opera singer in ''Nel Trovatore'' in Turin. In the same year he also worked in sculpture and painting. In 1939 he acted in his first film, ''Io, suo padre'' by Mario Bonnard. This was followed by over fifty films and television series, including the war film ''Giarabub (film), Giarabub'' (1942). His last film was ''I fratelli Karamazov'' by Sandro Bolchi (1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavyweight
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 3 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, and the World Boxing Organization. In 2020, the World Boxing Council increased their heavyweight classification to 224 pounds (102 kg; 16 st) to allow for their creation of the bridgerweight division. Historical development Because this division had no weight limit, it has been historically vaguely defined. In the 19th century, for example, many heavyweight champions weighed or less (although others weighed 200 pounds). In 1920, the light heavyweight division was formed, with a maximum weight of . Any fighter weighing more than 175 pounds was a heavyweight. The cruiserweight division (first for boxers in the 175–190 pound range) was established in 1979 and recognized by the various boxing organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights Of The Desert (film)
''Knights of the Desert'' (Italian:''I cavalieri del deserto'') is a 1942 Italian adventure film directed by Gino Talamo and Osvaldo Valenti. It starred Valenti, Luisa Ferida and Luigi Pavese. The film was based on a novel by Emilio Salgari with a screenplay by Federico Fellini and Vittorio Mussolini, the son of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini. It was produced by the Rome-based ACI which was run by Vittorio Mussolini. Valenti and Ferida were romantically linked, and co-starred in several films together. The film was shot on location in Libya, before the North African Campaign turned decisively against Italy and its Allies. Fellini may have directed some of the Libyan scenes after Gino Talamo was injured in a car accident.Kezich, Tullio. ''Federico Fellini: His Life and Work''. I.B.Tauris, 2007. p.70 The film was ultimately never released due to the defeats suffered in Libya, which meant its plot was now a potential embarrassment to the regime. Cast * Osvaldo Valenti as Il capi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Flea On The Scales
''A Flea on the Scales'' (Portuguese: ''Uma Pulga na Balança'') is a 1953 Brazilian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce and starring Waldemar Wey, Gilda Nery and Geraldo José de Almeida.Molinterno p.289 Cast * Waldemar Wey as Dorival * Gilda Nery as Dora * Geraldo José de Almeida * Vicente Leporace * José Rubens * Ruy Afonso * Geraldo Ambrosi * Francisco Arisa * Paulo Autran as Antenor * Tito Livio Baccarin * Jaime Barcellos * Maurício Barroso * Xandó Batista * Célia Biar * Lola Brah as Bibi * Luiz Calderaro as Carlos * Dan Camara * Nelson Camargo * Benjamin Cattan * Benedito Corsi * Maria Augusta Costa Leite * João Costa * Armando Couto * Antônio Dourado * Kleber Menezes Dória * Marcelo Fiori * Antônio Fragoso * João Franco * Felício Fuchs * Galileu Garcia * João Batista Giotti * Wanda Hamel * John Herbert as Alberto * Artur Herculano * Roberto Lombardi * Edith Lorena * Labiby Madi * Cavagno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle In Milan
''Miracle in Milan'' ( it, Miracolo a Milano) is a 1951 Italian fantasy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini, based on his novel ''Totò il Buono.'' The picture stars Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, and Guglielmo Barnabò. The film, told as a neo-realist fable, explains the lives of a poverty-stricken group in post-war Milan, Italy. Plot This fantasy tale tells of Totò who, found as a baby in a cabbage patch, is adopted by Lolotta, a wise and kind old woman. When Lolotta dies he moves to an orphanage. At adulthood Totò (Francesco Golisano) leaves the orphanage and ends up in a shantytown squatter colony on the outskirts of Milan. Totò's organizational ability, learned at the orphanage, and his simple kindness and optimistic outlook acquired from Lolotta bring structure to the colony. He fosters a sense of happiness and well-being among the dispossessed who live there. Businessmen come and haggle over the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard's Six Wives
''Bluebeard's Six Wives'' (Italian: ''Le sei mogli di Barbablù'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Isa Barzizza and Carlo Ninchi.Moliterno p.48 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Mario Rappini. Plot Toto Esposito is a young lover who tries to abduct his beloved to marry her. However, Toto is wrong, and kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him, and chases him when Toto escapes. In a last attempt to escape by train from Carmela, Totò meets his friend Amilcare and a beautiful American journalist named Lana Ross, which offers the two a deal. Toto and Amilcare have to pretend detectives, who are investigating the death of many girls at the hands of a serial killer nicknamed "Bluebeard". Toto has to be the main dish of deception, because he has to pretend to be the boyfriend of Lana, who in the meantime is trying to fool the murderous Bluebeard, pretending to be in love with him. Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deported (film)
''Deported'' is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Märta Torén and Jeff Chandler. Plot An American gangster deported back to his native to Italy woos a countess in a plot to bring loot into the country. Cast * Märta Torén as the Countess di Lorenzi * Jeff Chandler as Vittorio Mario Sparducci alias "Vic Smith" * Claude Dauphin as Bucelli * Marina Berti as Gina * Richard Rober as Bemardo Gervaso * Silvio Mindotti as Armando Sparducci * Carlo Rizzo as Guido Caruso * Mimi Aguglia as Teresa Sparducci * Adriano Ambrogi as Father Genaro * Michael Tor as Ernesto Pampilone * Erminio Spalla as Benjamino Barda * Dino Nardi as Donadi * Guido Celano as Aldo Brescia * Tito Vuolo as Postal clerk Production The film was originally titled ''Paradise Lost '49'' and was to star Dana Andrews, who had appeared in ''Sword in the Desert'', also produced by Robert Buckner, Andrews became unavailable and Victor Mature and John Garfield were discussed as possibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Squadron (film)
''Flying Squadron'' (Italian: ''Rondini in volo'') is a 1949 Italian adventure film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Massimo Serato, Dina Sassoli and Umberto Spadaro. The film's sets were designed by Alfredo Montori. Cast *Massimo Serato as Ufficiale d'aviazione *Dina Sassoli as Elena Baldini *Umberto Spadaro as Don Leoni *Gianfranco Magalotti as Massimo *Mirko Ellis as Mario *Mario Ferrari as Generale Artesi *Gabriele Ferzetti as Ufficiale d'aviazione * Giovanni Grasso jr. as capo Dei Contadini *Maria Grazia Francia as Figlia Del Capo Dei Cantadini *Guido Celano *Andrea Checchi *Paolo Panelli *Carlo Sposito *Erminio Spalla * Claudio Ermelli * Giovanna Scotto * Franco Pesce Franco Pesce (11 August 1890 – 6 December 1975) was an Italian actor and cinematographer. Life and career Franco Pesce was born in Naples. He was the son of the actor Ettore. At a young age Pesce studied lyric singing with the intention of ... References External links * 1949 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirates Of Capri
''The Pirates of Capri'' ( it, I pirati di Capri), released in the United Kingdom as ''The Masked Pirate'', is a 1949 Italian/American international co-production swashbuckler film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Louis Hayward. It was filmed on location in Italy. Plot In Naples in 1798, foppish nobleman Count Amalfi (Louis Hayward), adviser to the Queen (Binnie Barnes), is secretly the heroic pirate Captain Sirocco, who leads a band of rebels to overthrow the aristocratic regime, dominated by villainous Police Chief Von Holstein (Massimo Serato). Cast * Louis Hayward as Count Amalfi/Captain Sirocco * Binnie Barnes as Queen Carolina * Alan Curtis as Commodore Van Diel * Massimo Serato as Von Holstein * Mariella Lotti as Countess Mercedes * Mikhail Rasumny as Pepino * Virginia Belmont as Annette * Franca Marzi as Carla * William Tubbs as Pignatelli Critical reception In a contemporary review, ''The New York Times'' wrote "the thundering noise, confusion and blood-letting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cab Number 13
''Cab Number 13'' ( it, Il fiacre n. 13) is a 1948 Italian crime-melodrama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Vera Carmi. Cast * Vera Carmi - Jeanne Herblet (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Ginette Leclerc - Claudia (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Sandro Ruffini - Pietro Thefar (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Marcel Herrand - Georges de la Tour Vaudieu (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Leonardo Cortese - Andrea (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Vira Silenti - Mathilde * Flavia Grande - Olivia * Pierre Larquey - Pierre Loriot, il cocchiere (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Raymond Bussières - Jean Jeudi (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Achille Millo - Louis * Patrizia Muriel - Berthe Marois * Achille Majeroni - Le professeur Charcot * Paul Demange - Plume d'Oie * Galeazzo Benti - Le commissaire Portier * Henri Nassiet - Le duc de la Tour Vaudieu (segments "Delitto" & "Castigo") * Roldano Lupi Roldano Lupi (8 February 1909 – 13 August 1989) was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Opium Den
''The Opium Den'' (Italian: ''Fumeria d'oppio'') is a 1947 Italian crime film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, and Emilio Cigoli. It was an unsuccessful attempt to revive the Za La Mort character, who had been a popular figure during the silent era.Moliterno p.208 Ghione jr. was the son of the actor Emilio Ghione Emilio Luigi Carlo Giuseppe Maria Ghione (30 July 1879 – 7 January 1930), known as Emilio Ghione, was an Italian silent film actor, director and screenwriter. Ghione was best known for writing, directing, and starring in the Za La Mort series ... who had originally played the role. Cast References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1947 films Italian crime films 1947 crime films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo Italian black-and-white films Works about opium 1940s Italian films {{1940s-I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tyrant Of Padua
''The Tyrant of Padua'' (Italian: ''Il tiranno di Padova'') is a 1946 Italian historical film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Clara Calamai, Carlo Lombardi and Elsa De Giorgi.Brunetta, p. 150. It is an adaptation of the 1835 play '' Angelo, Tyrant of Padua'' by Victor Hugo. It is set in Padua in the 1540s. Made by Scalera Films, it was shot at the Cinevillaggio Studios complex in Venice during the wartime Italian Social Republic. The film's sets were designed by the art director Luigi Scaccianoce and Ottavio Scotti. Cast * Carlo Lombardi as Angelo Malipieri * Clara Calamai as Tisbe * Elsa De Giorgi as Caterina Bragadin in Malipieri * Alfredo Varelli as Rodolfo degli Ezzelini * Nino Pavese as Una spia * Giorgio Piamonti as Omodei * Erminio Spalla as Un evaso * Carlo Micheluzzi as Il padre di Caterina * Olga Vittoria Gentilli as La madre di Tisbe * Memo Benassi as Cesare, il pittore * Andreina Carli as Reginella * Cristina Veronesi Cristina is a femal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Gondola
''The Devil's Gondola'' (Italian: ''La gondola del diavolo'') is a 1946 Italian historical drama-crime film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Loredana, Carlo Lombardi, and Erminio Spalla.Klossner p.103 Made by Scalera Films, it was shot at the Cinevillaggio Studios complex in Venice during the wartime Italian Social Republic. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Luigi Scaccianoce and Ottavio Scotti. Synopsis In the Venetian Republic a series of murders are carried out by a hooded man in black who always makes his escape through the city's waterways on a gondola. Cast * Loredana as Marina * Carlo Lombardi as messer Stelio Ricunis * Erminio Spalla as Marco, il gondoliere * Nino Pavese as Idillius, il bravo * Alfredo Varelli as Paolo Venier * Flora Marino as Imperia * Letizia Quaranta as Madre di Paolo * Carlo Micheluzzi as Il ministro di giustizia * Mario Sailer as Lorenzo * Giorgio Piamonti as Alvise Venier, padre di Paolo * Edgardo Pellegrini as B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
