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Giovanni Cianfriglia
Giovanni Cianfriglia (born 5 April 1935) is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1958. Born in Anzio, Cianfriglia debuted as the body double of Steve Reeves in ''Hercules'', then he started appearing, often uncredited, as a stuntman in dozens of genre films. Since the second half of the sixties he starred in several adventure films and Spaghetti Westerns in leading roles using the stage name Ken Wood. Selected filmography * '' The Trojan Horse'' (1961) * '' Sandokan the Great'' (1963) * '' Revenge of The Gladiators'' (1964) * '' Castle of Blood'' (1964) * '' Hercules the Avenger'' (1965) * '' Desperate Mission'' (1965) * '' Superargo Versus Diabolicus'' (1966) * '' Massacre Mania'' (1967) * '' The Devil's Man'' (1967) * '' Golden Chameleon'' (1967) * '' Superargo and the Faceless Giants'' (1968) * '' Bury Them Deep'' (1968) * '' Kill Them All and Come Back Alone'' (1968) * '' Gunman Sent by God'' (1968) * '' Drummer of Vengeance'' (1971) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Polizia Ha Le Mani Legate
''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 Cop'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Chameleon
''Golden Chameleon'' (Italian: ''Colpo doppio del camaleonte d'oro'') is a 1967 Italian comedy crime film directed by Giorgio Stegani and starring Mark Damon, Luisa Baratto and Magda Konopka.Lancia & Melelli p.117 Cast * Mark Damon as Vittorio * Luisa Baratto as Micaela * Magda Konopka as Ginevra * Luciano Pigozzi as Aragosta * Daniele Vargas as Direttore della banca * Poldo Bendandi as Ora Pro Nobis * Umberto D'Orsi as Il Dottore * Ugo Fangareggi as Einstein * Giampiero Littera as Cassaforte * Mino Doro as Guglielmo * Giulio Farnese * Giovanni Cianfriglia as Sgherro di Guglielmo * Stefano Ceccarelli as Buttafuori * Stefano Pescarelli * Giulio Battiferri Giulio Battiferri (15 July 1893 – 22 January 1973) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1939 to 1972. He was married to the actress Pina Piovani. Life and career Born in Rome, Battiferri started his caree ... as Giuseppe * Valentino Macchi as Impiegato di banca Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Goes West
''Buddy goes West'' ( it, Occhio alla penna, also known as ''A fist goes West'') is a 1981 Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Michele Lupo. Plot In the Old West, a mysterious man, nicknamed "Doc", arrives in a dusty town. Doc is a bandit who robbed a city physician, keeping his instruments' briefcase. He is misunderstood by local residents for a real doctor, and induced to care in particular for sick children. While treating them, Doc becomes aware that the small town is harassed by a criminal gang that bribes the sheriff. Doc immediately proclaims himself the new sheriff, and proceeds to hunt down the bandits. Cast * Bud Spencer: Buddy * Amidou: Girolamo * Joe Bugner: Sheriff Bronson * Riccardo Pizzuti: Colorado Slim * Carlo Reali: Sarto * Renato Scarpa: Logan * Sara Franchetti: Witwe Gordon * Giovanni Cianfriglia: Jack Bolt * Nazzareno Zamperla Nazzareno Zamperla (25 April 1937 – 19 March 2020) was an Italian actor and stuntman. Career Born in Treviso into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything Happens To Me (1980 Film)
''Everything Happens to Me'' ( it, Chissà perché... capitano tutte a me) is a 1980 children's comedy movie starring Bud Spencer and child actor Cary Guffey. It is a direct sequel of the 1979 movie '' The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid'' and is also known under the title ''Why Did You Pick on Me?'' Plot Following the events of ''The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid'', Sheriff Hall and H7-25 (using the official identity of Charlie Warren) still get no rest from the military: because the little alien has not yet grasped the meaning of keeping a low profile, they are constantly on the move, and H7-25's father has had to pick them out of a tight spot too many times already. Hall and Charlie eventually arrive at the city of Munroe, where petty crime, from vandalism to armed robberies, is running rampant, more so because the town currently has no sheriff. Charlie pushes Hall into staying in this place, and somewhat reluctantly Hall takes up the job in this chaotic place, with the help of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keoma (film)
''Keoma'' is a 1976 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring Franco Nero. It is frequently regarded as one of the better 'twilight' Spaghetti Westerns, being one of the last films of its genre, and is known for its incorporation of newer cinematic techniques of the time (such as slow motion and close/medium panning shots) and its vocal soundtrack by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. Plot After the American Civil War, ex-Union soldier Keoma Shannon, part-Indian and part-white, returns to his home town to find his half-brothers in alliance with a petty tyrant named Caldwell. Caldwell and his gang rule over the town with an iron fist. With the help of his father and George, an old Black friend, he vows revenge. Keoma also shows compassion when he saves a pregnant woman from a group sent by Caldwell's group to be quarantined in a mine camp full of plague victims. Keoma is constantly visited by the apparition of an older woman ("The Witch") who saved him d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Climber (1975 Film)
''The Climber'' ( it, L'ambizioso) is a 1975 Italian crime drama film written and directed by Pasquale Squitieri and starring Joe Dallesandro. Cast * Joe Dallesandro as Aldo, The Climber * Stefania Casini as Luciana * Raymond Pellegrin as Don Enrico * Benito Artesi as Ciriaco * Ferdinando Murolo as Carlo * Tony Askin as Man On Train * Giovanni Cianfriglia as Gianni * Lorenzo Piani as Bernard Release ''The Climber'' was released in Italy on 18 February 1975, where it was distributed by Titanus. The film grossed a total of 638,368,060 Italian lire 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 .... References External links * Italian crime drama films 1975 crime drama films 1975 films Films directed by Pasquale Squitieri Titanus films 1970s Italian films {{1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Cop
''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 Cop'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Breaks
Who or WHO may refer to: * Who (pronoun), an interrogative or relative pronoun * Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism * World Health Organization Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Who, a creature in the Dr. Seuss book ''Horton Hears a Who!'' * Who, a creature in the Dr. Seuss book ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'' * Who, a first baseman in the Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First?" Film * ''Who'' (film), a 2018 Indian film * ''Who?'' (film), a 1974 English film adaptation of Algis Budrys' novel (see below), directed by Jack Gold Music * The Who, an English rock band Albums * ''Who'' (album), by The Who, 2019 * ''Who?'' (album), by Tony! Toni! Toné!, 1988 Songs * "Who?" (song), written by Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach, and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1925 * "Who", by David Byrne and St. Vincent from ''Love This Giant'', 2012 * "Who", by Diana Ross from ''Silk Electric'', 1982 * "Who", by Disturbed from '' Immortalized'', 2015 * "Who", by Lauv from ''How I'm F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peur Sur La Ville
''Fear Over the City'' ( French: ''Peur sur la ville'') is a 1975 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. It was the first time Belmondo played a police officer. It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom as ''The Night Caller''. Plot Policeman Jean Letellier is under pressure, because the infamous gangster Marcucci escaped from him publicly. Moreover, during the pursuit an innocent bystander was killed by a stray bullet. Letellier is investigated for having fired the deadly bullet. Before Letellier is cleared, a serial killer begins to murder young women, each time leaving a weird message at the site of crime. He calls himself "Minos", referring to the Divine Comedy. The murderer always declares he had punished his victims for what he considers their impure life style. While Letellier still has no trace of Minos, he comes across Marcucci's current whereabouts. Just as before, Marcucci tries to escape in a spectacular mann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?
''Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?'' ( it, La vita a volte è molto dura, vero Provvidenza?, also known as ''Sometimes Life Is Hard - Right, Providence?'') is a 1972 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Giulio Petroni. The film was a box office success and generated an immediate sequel, ''Here We Go Again, Eh Providence?'' (''Ci risiamo, vero Provvidenza?''). Cast * Tomas Milian: Provvidenza * Gregg Palmer: Hurricane Kid Smith * Janet Agren: Stella * Dieter Eppler: Sheriff Howard Pendleton * Maurice Poli: Sheriff von Keensburg * Giovanni Cianfriglia: The Challenger (credited as ''Ken Wood'') * Paul Muller: Mr. Summitt * Mike Bongiorno: Mike Goodmorning * Gabriella Giorgelli Gabriella Giorgelli (born 29 July 1941) is an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1960 and 1998. Biography Early life Born in Fossola, a frazione of Carrara, Giorgelli was the daughter of a busines ...: Sister * Horst Janson: Sheriff of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drummer Of Vengeance
''Drummer of Vengeance'' ( it, Il giorno del giudizio, also known as ''Day of Judgment'', ''Doomsday'' and ''An Eye for an Eye'') is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Mario Gariazzo and starring Ty Hardin, Rossano Brazzi and Craig Hill. Plot On his return a war veteran finds his farmhouse burned to the ground. His young Native American wife and his little son have died in the flames. Responsible are a bunch of men who killed this man's family out of rage about his stance in the war. Using a false identity he goes to the close-by town where the murderers are to be found. He finds and confronts them one by one. Each time he uses his dead son's wind-up toy to remind them on their crime while he challenges them to a duel which none of them survives. Cast * Ty Hardin as The Stranger * Rossano Brazzi as The Sheriff * Craig Hill as O'Connor * Gordon Mitchell as Deputy Norton * Edda Di Benedetto as Prairie Fowler * Rosalba Neri as Rising Sun * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunman Sent By God
''Il pistolero segnato da Dio'' () is an Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Anthony Steffen. Plot Cast * Anthony Steffen as Roy Kerry * Richard Wyler as Coleman * Ken Wood as Owl Roy * Liz Barret as Maggie * Andrea Bosic as Jonathan Murphy * Tom Felleghy as Bludy * Gia Sandri as Dora * Ennio Balbo as Thomas Claridge * Rina Franchetti as Miss Claridge * Nello Pazzafini * Benito Stefanelli Production ''Il pistolero segnato da dio'' directed the film under his name he used for Westerns Calvin Jackson Padget. It was filmed at Elios Studios and on location in Rome. Richard Stapley spoke about the film stating he was introduced to the film by his agents who told him Ferroni was a "first-class director" and that Stapley would "have a great time working with him." Stapley recalled he was furious with the director as he was cast as "the baddie, which was not the most important part. I had never played a baddie before, but he told me that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |