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Ettore Manni
Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1952 and 1979. Life and career Born in Rome, Manni debuted as an actor in 1952, when in spite of his acting inexperience he was chosen by Luigi Comencini for the main role in '' La tratta delle bianche''. Following the success of the film Manni interrupted his university studies and started appearing in a significant number of films of any genre, becoming in a short time one of the most popular actors in the Italian cinema. As his fame declined in the 1960s, Manni appeared mainly in Spaghetti Western and peplum films, but he also took part to several international productions, including films by Delmer Daves and Tony Richardson. His last role was Katzone in Federico Fellini's ''City of Women''. He died in Rome, aged 52, after accidentally shooting himself. Filmography * '' Girls Marked Danger'' (1952) - Carlo Sozzosi * ''I tre corsari'' (1952) - Il Corsaro Ner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Oro
''Ringo and His Golden Pistol'' ( it, Johnny Oro) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Mark Damon. Synopsis Renamed to cash in on the success of Duccio Tessari’s Ringo movies, ''Ringo and His Golden Pistol'' focuses on bounty hunter Johnny Oro/Ringo who sees killing as purely business; in fact he will not draw his solid gold pistol unless he can profit from it and this gets him into trouble. He lets Juanito Perez live because there is nothing to gain from killing a man without a price on his head, unlike his brothers, who "Ringo" does kill. Perez swears revenge and faces off with "Ringo". Juanito has formed an alliance with the local Indian chief and is now prepared for an all-out war against the peaceful town and sheriff that are protecting "Ringo". Cast * Mark Damon as Jonathan Tomadaro Jefferson Gonzales ("Johnny Oro"/"Johnny Ringo") * Valeria Fabrizi as Margie * Franco De Rosa (as Franco Derosa) as Juanito Perez * Ettore Manni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Nights With Cleopatra
''Two Nights with Cleopatra'' ( it, Due notti con Cleopatra) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Sophia Loren. Plot Cesare, a Roman soldier, comes to Alexandria to serve in the army staff of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Cleopatra is a beautiful woman, able to charm anyone, and is the wife of Emperor Mark Antony, but when he is not in the city, she prefers to spend the night with one or another of his soldiers, whom she will then have killed the next day with poison. When Mark Antony comes back to Alexandria to fight a war, Cleopatra visits him secretly while her place at the palace is taken by Nisca, a girl who is so like her she can pass as her double, except for being blonde. It turns out that on one of the evenings on which Cleopatra has been swapped for her double, Cesare fails to notice this. Unaware of the exchange, Cesare spends the night with the girl who proves to be very fragile and sad. The next night Cesare is arrested for tryi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleopatra's Daughter
''Cleopatra's Daughter'' ( it, Il sepolcro dei re) is a 1960 historical drama film set in Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Khufu (r. 2589-2566 BC). The film stars Debra Paget and was directed by Fernando Cerchio. For some reason, the English version was translated very differently from the original Italian script, setting the film in the 1st century BC, rather than the early Bronze Age. Plot After the death of Antony and Cleopatra, Egypt is ruled by the young tyrant Pharaoh Nemorat and his mother Tegi. Cleopatra has left a surviving daughter, Shila, raised by the king and queen of Assyria. When Nemorat conquers Assyria, Shila is brought to the Egyptian court and, at the instigation of Nemorat's mother, marries him. The pharaoh, who is a mentally disturbed hypochondriac, has a good and wise physician, Resi, who falls in love with Shila and encourages her to go on living despite the killing of her Assyrian surrogate parents by Tegi. When Shila spurns an amorous Nemorat one e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austerlitz (1960 Film)
''Austerlitz'' is a 1960 French film directed by Abel Gance and starring Jean Marais, Rossano Brazzi, Martine Carol, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio De Sica, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Pierre Mondy portrays Napoleon in this film about his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz. Leslie Caron plays the role of his mistress Élisabeth Le Michaud d'Arçon. Synopsis The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle, where he beat both Austrian and Russian forces in his drive eastward. Cast Noteworthy Composer Jean Ledrut claimed that "La Marche d'Austerlitz" from his score had been plagiarised by producer/composer Joe Meek in the 1962 pop hit "Telstar". The case was eventually dismissed, but the lawsuit prevented Meek from receiving royalties from the record during his lifetime, and the issue was not resolved in Meek's favour until three weeks after his su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legions Of The Nile
''Legions of the Nile'' ( it, Le legioni di Cleopatra, french: Les légions de Cléopâtre, es, Las legiones de Cleopatra) is an Eastmancolor 1959 Italian-French-Spanish historical epic adventure film written and directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. Plot summary A traveler from Greece to Alexandria seeks an audience with Cleopatra and employment as a gladiator at the time of the Roman conquest of Egypt. Marcus Antonius, a renegade Roman who is in bondage to his mistress, also lives in the palace of Queen Cleopatra. Augustus wants to give him the opportunity to be reconciled with his country of origin. To this end, he instructs the warhorse Curridio to persuade Antonius to return to his homeland. When Curridio arrives in Alexandria, he poses as a Greek. As soon as he stops at the first tavern he comes across, he makes the acquaintance of the hard-drinking athlete Gotarze. The two are equally sympathetic and form friendships with each other. Curridio acquires 12-year-old Rais and his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Ready Rifles
''Ten Ready Rifles'' ( es, Diez fusiles esperan) is a 1959 Spanish drama film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. The film concerns the Carlist Wars of the 19th century. Fotogramas.es. Retrieved 9 June 2012. It was entered into the . Cast * as José Iribarren * as Migu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate Of The Black Hawk
''The Pirate of the Black Hawk'' ( it, Il pirata dello sparviero nero) is a 1958 international co-production film starring Brigitte Bardot's sister Mijanou Bardot. The film was a co-production between Italy's Emmepi Cinematografica and France's Comptoir Français du Productions. Cast * Mijanou Bardot as Eleanor *Gérard Landry as Richard *Andrea Aureli as Manfred *Ettore Manni as Johnny * Pina Bottin as Eva * Eloisa Cianni as Stella *Germano Longo as Mark * Andrea Miano as Bearded Pirate *Nazzareno Zamperla as Pirate with Ambassador Francesa (uncredited) Release ''The Pirate of the Black Hawk'' was released in Italy on 13 November 1958. The film was distributed in the United States by Filmgroup. It was released in the United States in December 1961. The film was shot in color, but released in black-and-white when distributed in the United States. It was released by Anglo Amalgamated in Great Britain in May, 1961, in full Supercinescope and Technicolor Technicolor is a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Warrior And The Slave Girl
''The Warrior and the Slave Girl'' ( it, La rivolta dei gladiatori, es, La rebelión de los gladiadores, french: La révolte des gladiateurs) is a 1958 Italian-Spanish-French adventure film in Supercinescope and Eastman Color directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. Premise A cruel Armenian princess craves the throne of the young king Osroé, while a popular uprising led by Asclepius breaks out. Cast * Ettore Manni as Marcus Numidius * Gianna Maria Canale as Amira * Mara Cruz as Zahar * Georges Marchal as Asclepius * Rafael Calvo as Lucano * Fidel Martín as Osroé * Jesús Tordesillas as Governor Crisipius * Rafael Durán as Burkala * Nando Tamberlani as Senator Lucilius * Valeria Moriconi Valeria Moriconi (''née'' Abbruzzetti; November 15, 1931 – June 15, 2005) was an Italian actress who appeared both in movies and on stage. Biography Valeria was born in Iesi, in Marche, central Italy. Her earliest work was as a stage actress. ... as Servant References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladro Lui, Ladra Lei
''Ladro lui, ladra lei'' is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa. Starring Alberto Sordi and Sylva Koscina, it tells the story of a young woman in Rome who is first sucked into a life of crime by a released convict and then has an awakening of conscience. Plot From a poor district beside the railway tracks, Cesira tries to earn a living as an ill-paid salesgirl but will not accept the male advances that go with the job. Back into her life breezes Cencio, a career criminal who is just out of jail and looking for new opportunities. He tries blackmailing all of Cesira's former employers who have forced their attentions on her, and from one of them steals an expensive watch. This he gives to Cesira as a present but she, needing money not useless ostentation, sells it to a jeweller who is also a notorious fence. Cencio dresses as a policeman, arrests the jeweller, empties his safe, and takes him to jail. The man gets 10 years for his crimes. Cesira's last employer, Raim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poveri Ma Belli
''Poveri ma belli'' (U.S. title: ''Poor, But Handsome''; U.K. title: ''A Girl in Bikini'') is a successful 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. There have been two sequels, also directed by Risi and starring Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena and Renato Salvatori: '' Belle ma povere'' in 1957 and ''Poveri milionari'' in 1959 (the latter not featuring Allasio, who by then had retired from acting). Plot Romolo ( Maurizio Arena) and Salvatore (Renato Salvatori) are two young men that are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna ( Marisa Allasio). After having briefly flirted in quick succession with both friends (a situation which severely strains their feelings of comradeship), Giovanna realizes she's still in love with Ugo, her previous boyfriend, and returns with him. Romolo and Salvatore, their friendship recovered, ultimately get simultaneously engaged wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Alone (1956 Film)
''A Woman Alone'' (Italian: ''Donne sole'') is a 1956 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio Sala and Ottavio Alessi assistant director, and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Luciana Angiolillo and Ettore Manni.Miccichè p/107 Cast * Eleonora Rossi Drago as Luisa * Luciana Angiolillo as Nice * Ettore Manni as Giulio, il giornalista * Antigone Costanda as Franca * Gianna Maria Canale as Mara * Paolo Stoppa * Evi Maltagliati as Pressenda * Joseph Lenzi as Dino Franceschi * Ignazio Leone as Turi * Francesco Sormano * Matilde Orsini * Vittorio Vaser * Gino Buzzanca * Giorgio Gandos * Franca Ferrari * Francisco Prosperi * Ugo Ugolini * Enzo Garinei as Ciccio, il fotografo *Ottavio Alessi as the movie Cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ... Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folgore Division
''Folgore Division'' ( it, Divisione Folgore) is a 1955 Italian war film directed by Duilio Coletti. It is based on actual events and depicts the 185th Airborne Division Folgore during the battle of El-Alamein. The screenwriter and military advisor was Marcantonio Bragadin. Plot In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having undergone a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front. The young soldiers believe that their destination is the island of Malta (operation C3) or the area of Alexandria: instead they find themselves thrown into a desert region where they are forced to live in holes dug in the sand and to face with insufficient means the armored British armored units. They will sadly see their parachutes piled up inside a warehouse in the desert. Thus develops that epic fight, which takes the name of the battle of El-Alamein, in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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