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Francesco D'Adda
Francesco D'Adda (born 15 October 1943) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1970. Selected filmography References External links * 1943 births Living people Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almost Human (1974 Film)
''Almost Human'' ( it, Milano odia: la polizia non-può sparare, "Milan hates, the police can't shoot") is a 1974 Italian poliziotteschi film directed by Umberto Lenzi. This film stars Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Ray Lovelock and Anita Strindberg.NoShame Films DVD Case, 2005. Last accessed: September 2008. Plot A bunch of thieves kidnap a boy in a red hoodie from his mother's arms. This is followed by an action-packed car chase full of breaking boxes, defacing cars, and slim getaways. The chase ends when the kidnappers are saved by an oncoming train, which cuts off the police from their trail. They find this a perfect opportunity to dump the kid and make their getaway. The boy is returned to his family but the kidnappers' gang beat them up for their failure. Following a castration threat, the kidnapper/thief goes home to rape his girlfriend. Following this, he robs a cigarette dispenser and stabs the beat cop who catches him. This leads to a detective to start asking questions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quel Movimento Che Mi Piace Tanto
''Quel movimento che mi piace tanto'' (''That movement which I love so much'') is a 1976 Italian ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' written and directed by Franco Rossetti. It marked the film debut, both as actor and as assistant director, of Carlo Verdone. Cast * Carlo Giuffrè: Lawyer Fabrizio Siniscalchi * Martine Brochard: Livia Bonoli-Serpieri * Renzo Montagnani: Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni * Cinzia Monreale: Anna Gilioli * Francesca Benedetti: Lucia Guarnieri aka 'Lucy' * Enzo Cannavale: Salvatore Siniscalchi * Carlo Verdone: Man at the Bar See also * List of Italian films of 1976 References External links *''Quel movimento che mi piace tanto''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 p ... 1976 films 1970s sex comedy films 1970s Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti-Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – January 24, 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bomber (1982 Film)
''Bomber'' is a 1982 comedy film directed by Michele Lupo, featuring Bud Spencer and Kallie Knoetze. Plot Bud Graziano, the title's "Bomber" character, is a former heavyweight boxing champion who retired to private life on a ship. Jerry Calà is instead a Lombard punter who finds himself always in trouble and one day gets into really big trouble. In fact, he unwittingly sets himself against a group of thugs who answer only to the orders of a new boxing champion who is making the rounds in the area with his victories. So Bomber, suddenly feels his passion for boxing reawakened, so he opens a gym for amateurs and begins to train the promising young George. Bomber organizes meetings in which fellow boxer Rosco also participates. Rosco, being too strong, knocks ouy the young George. After many other battles, Bomber is on the verge of losing everything he has slowly and painstakingly put together and so he decides to himself confront Rosco in a boxing contest. Cast *Bud Spencer as Bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Average Little Man
''An Average Little Man'' ( it, Un borghese piccolo piccolo, literally meaning ''a petty petty bourgeois'', also known in English as ''A Very Little Man'') is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Vincenzo Cerami. The movie mixes "Comedy Italian Style" (commedia all'italiana) with psychological drama tragedy. The film was an entrant in the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) is a petty bourgeois, modest white-collar worker nearing retirement in a public office in the capital. His life is divided between work and family. With his wife Amalia (Shelley Winters) he shares high hopes for his son, Mario (Vincenzo Crocitti), a newly qualified accountant, not a particularly bright boy who willingly assists his father's efforts to make him hired in the same office. The father, in an attempt to guide his son, emphasizes the point of practicing humility in the presence of his superiors at work, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothers Till We Die
''Brothers Till We Die'' ( it, La banda del gobbo) is a 1977 Italian poliziottesco-action film by Umberto Lenzi and fifth and final entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared universe. This film is the last collaboration among Lenzi and Tomas Milian. In this movie Milian plays two characters, Vincenzo Marazzi a.k.a. "The Hunchback" that he already played for Lenzi in '' The Tough Ones'', and his twin brother Sergio Marazzi a.k.a. "Er Monnezza", a role that he played for the first time in Lenzi's ''Free Hand for a Tough Cop'' and later resumed in ''Destruction Force'' by Stelvio Massi. Plot The notorious Italian criminal known as "Hunchback" (Italian: il gobbo) returns in Rome from Corsica after his imprisonment. Together with his younger brother and other accomplices he plans to raid an armoured truck. But things go awry. Cast * Tomas Milian: Vincenzo Marazzi, a.k.a. "Il Gobbo" (The Hunchback)/ Sergio Marazzi, a.k.a. "Er Monnezza" (a double role) * Pino Colizzi: Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Shot
''Cross Shot'' ( it, La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine) is a 1976 Italian ''poliziottesco'' film directed by Stelvio Massi. Plot Commissioner Jacovella is a hasty and decisive but fundamentally honest police officer, and sometimes indulges in unorthodox methods to carry out his job as Head of the City Mobile Squad. For this reason he is disliked by the journalists of the city and reciprocates the same sentiment towards them. Jacovella's wife is a witness in a trial against the brother of the local boss of the Sacra Corona Unita Dante Ragusa and is threatened by his henchmen so as not to let her testify. The trial ends with the acquittal of the accused and with the commissioner who publicly takes it out on the journalists present. The situation in the city is tense. Antonio Blasi, a young boy without a job, needs money to be able to go to live with his girlfriend Nadia and marry her, so he decides to participate in a robbery of a security van. But something goes wrong, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'affittacamere
''L'affittacamere'' is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Mariano Laurenti and starring Gloria Guida. Plot Giorgia and Angela Mainardi are two sisters: the first is very beautiful, and the second is fat and has problems with sleepwalking. One day the sisters receive an inheritance from their aunt, a countess in debt, a farmhouse in the countryside near Bologna and decided to turn it into a pension. Over time, many people are invited to the board from Georgia, believing that going to sleep there and paying 50,000 lire per night; they will be "rewarded" very well by the same girl. It spreads as some 'time on board' begins to turn into bad rumors. Worried, the boyfriend of Angela, Lillino, decides to spend one night there to check. The others also come to judge - Damiani, avid defender of morality, who decide to go and visit the board, but we will go at the same night that his wife and her lover, Anselmo Bresci, have gathered there. That same evening a doctor, Professor Setteben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell Me You Do Everything For Me
''Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (Italian: ''Dimmi che fai tutto per me'') is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Johnny Dorelli, Pamela Villoresi and Jacques Dufilho.Chiti, Poppi & Pecorari p.242 Cast * Johnny Dorelli as Francesco Salmarani * Pamela Villoresi as Mary Mancini * Jacques Dufilho as 'Dodo' Spinacroce * Maria Grazia Spina as Paola Signorini - Francesco's lover * Nanni Svampa as Bonomelli aka il Biondino * Enzo Robutti as Felegatti * Ferdinando Murolo as Roberto Mancuso aka Robbie * Stefano Amato as Mino Salmarani * Francesco D'Adda as Caputo - The Police Commissioner's Assistant * Andréa Ferréol as Miriam Spinacroce * Pino Caruso Giuseppe Caruso (12 October 1934 – 7 March 2019), best known as Pino Caruso, was an Italian actor, author and television personality. Life and career Caruso was born in Palermo, Sicily and debuted as dramatic stage actor in his home town in ... as The Police Commissioner Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Police Can't Move
''Killer Cop'' ( it, La polizia ha le mani legate) is a 1975 Italian poliziottesco-crime film directed in 1975 by Luciano Ercoli. The film's plot reprises the Piazza Fontana bombing which happened in Milan in 1969. The gun in the umbrella used in the movie is similar to a Bulgarian umbrella used at London in 1978 to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. Cast * Claudio Cassinelli as Commissioner Matteo Rolandi * Arthur Kennedy as Armando Di Federico * Franco Fabrizi as Luigi Balsamo * Sara Sperati as Papaya Girotti * Bruno Zanin as Franco Ludovisi * Valeria D'Obici as Falena * Enzo Fisichella as Francalancia * Paolo Poiret as Rocco Altieri * Giovanni Cianfriglia as Hitman * Jack Lemmon as Narrator (voice, English version) Production ''Killer Cop'' was shot in Milan. ''Killer Cops plot is influenced from the Piazza Fontana bombings. The funerals seen in the film on a television screen are actual footage of the funerals of the victims of the bombings. Release ''Killer C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Mark Shoots First
''Mark il poliziotto spara per primo'' (internationally released as ''Mark Shoots First'') is an Italian ''poliziottesco'' film directed in 1975 by Stelvio Massi. It is the sequel of ''Mark il poliziotto''. Cast *Franco Gasparri: Mark Terzi *Lee J. Cobb: commendator Benzi *Massimo Girotti: vice questore Spaini *Ely Galleani: Angela Frizzo *Nino Benvenuti: Ghini *Andrea Aureli: giornalista *Spiros Focás: Morini *Guido Celano: Mario Borelli Release ''Mark Shoots First'' was released theatrically in Italy on 22 December 1975 where it was distributed by P.A.C. (Produzioni Atlas Cinematografica). The film grossed ₤1.227 billion Italian lira The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually f ... in Italy. References Footnotes Sources * External links * 1975 films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
