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Lisa Gastoni
Lisa Gastoni (born 28 July 1935) is an Italian film actress. Gastoni was named "Best Italian Actress of the Year, 1966" as she received both the Nastro D'Argento Award and the Golden Globe Award from Italy's Foreign Press Association.} Biography Daughter of an Italian father and an Irish mother, Gastoni and her family moved to England in 1948. She turned from her initial ambition of being an architect to modelling and acting. She appeared in various B movies throughout the 1950s, as well as co-starring as Giulia in the Sapphire Films TV series '' The Four Just Men'' (1959) for ITV and an episode of ''Danger Man'' (1960). Gastoni returned to Italy in the 1960s, first appearing in sword-and-sandal and swashbuckler films, but eventually gaining the attention of respected directors. The turning point in her film career was her role in '' Grazie, zia'' by Salvatore Samperi. This would set the tone for the roles she would play for the next decade; bourgeois women who were seductiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Play With Me (1968 Film)
''Come Play with Me'' ( it, Grazie, zia) is a 1968 Italian drama film directed by Salvatore Samperi. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The English title is not a translation of the Italian one, which translates into English as "Thanks, Auntie". Plot Alvise (Lou Castel) is a young man who thinks he is paralyzed. He receives treatment for his psychological problem. His father leaves Alvise for a few days in the care of Aunt Lea (Lisa Gastoni), who is Alvise's mother's sister. Alvise becomes infatuated with his aunt and Lea also reciprocates gradually. Lea breaks off her relationship with Stefano (Gabriele Ferzetti) to be with her nephew. Alvise promises to make love to Lea if she plays with him and beats him at any of the games. Lea and Alvise play a number of games leading to the ultimate game of euthanasia. Cast * Lisa Gastoni as Aunt Lea * Lou Castel as Alvise * Gabriele Ferzetti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of The Moment (1955 Film)
''Man of the Moment'' is a 1955 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, Belinda Lee, Lana Morris and Jerry Desmonde. The film includes songs sung by the Beverley Sisters, including, "Dreams for Sale" (Arthur Groves, Peter Carroll), "Beware" (Norman Wisdom), "Yodelee Yodelay", and "Man of the Moment" (Jack Fishman). Plotline Norman, a file clerk in the (fictional) British Ministry of Overseas Affairs, becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference in Geneva, as there is no one else available. He accidentally votes against a motion that would allow intervention in the affairs of the (fictional) peaceful Pacific island nation of Tawaki. This earns him the gratitude of the Queen of Tawaki, who leaves all matters concerning her nation's future in the hands of 'Honourable Sir Norman'. The furious governments, including America, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, which want to establish a military base on one of Tawaki's outlying islands, shower honours on Norman to persuad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breaking Point (1961 Film)
''The Breaking Point'' (also known as ''The Great Armored Car Swindle'') is a 1961 British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham and Lisa Gastoni. Cast * Peter Reynolds - Eric Winlatter * Dermot Walsh - Robert Wade * Joanna Dunham - Cherry Winlatter * Lisa Gastoni - Eva * Jack Allen - Ernest Winlatter * Brian Cobby - Peter de Savory * Arnold Diamond - Telling * Eric Corrie - Wilson * Desmond Cullum-Jones - Evans * Geoffrey Denton - Debt Collector * Richard Golding - Mintos * John G. Heller - Mel * Gertan Klauber - Lofty * John Lawrence - Security Officer * Mercia Mansfield la, Merciorum regnum , conventional_long_name=Kingdom of Mercia , common_name=Mercia , status=Kingdom , status_text=Independent kingdom (527–879)Client state of Wessex () , life_span=527–918 , era=Heptarchy , event_start= , date_start= , ye ... - Ernest's Secretary * Charles Russell - Cappel References External links * 1961 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Of The Seas
''Queen of the Seas'' ( it, Le avventure di Mary Read) is a 1961 adventure film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Lisa Gastoni and Jerome Courtland. Plot Cast * Lisa Gastoni as Mary Read * Jerome Courtland as Peter Goodwin * Walter Barnes as Captain Poof * Agostino Salvietti as Mangiatrippa * Germano Longo as Ivan * Gianni Solaro as Governor of Florida * Tullio Altamura as Don Pedro Alvarez * Gisella Arden as The French Dancer * Dina De Santis as Peter's Lover * Ignazio Balsamo as Captain of the Guards * Anna Arena as Lady in the Diligence * Giulio Battiferri as Prison Guard * Edoardo Toniolo as Lord Goodwin * Piero Pastore as Master of Protocol * Loris Gizzi as The Director of the Prison * Bruno Scipioni as Lord Stewart Release ''Queen of the Seas'' was released theatrically in Italy on December 1, 1961. It was released in the United States in 1964. It has received a home video release by Something Weird. Reception In a contemporary review, the ''Monthl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passport To China
''Passport to China'' (a.k.a. ''Visa to Canton'') is a 1960 British adventure spy film released by Columbia Pictures; directed by Michael Carreras and starring Richard Basehart, Lisa Gastoni, Eric Pohlmann and Bernard Cribbins. The screenplay, which concerns a pilot who tries to rescue a girl from Communist-controlled China, was based on a story by Gordon Wellesley and made by Swallow Productions and Hammer Films. Plot Don Benton (Richard Basehart), a former World War II combat pilot, now running a travel agency in Hong Kong, refuses to take political sides and flatly rejects an offer to do espionage work for the United States. When Mao Tai Tai (Athene Seyler), an old Chinese woman who more or less adopted Benton during the war years, asks him to try to find her missing grandson. Knowing that the grandson was piloting a Formosan aircraft that disappeared over mainland China, Benton obtains a passport through a Russian friend, Ivano Kang (Eric Pohlmann). Flying to the mainland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrong Number (1959 Film)
''Wrong Number'' is a 1959 British crime film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Peter Reynolds, Lisa Gastoni and Olive Sloane. It was produced as a second feature at Merton Park Studios in London.Chibnall & McFarlane p.100 The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. Cast * Peter Reynolds as Angelo * Lisa Gastoni as Maria * Peter Elliott as Dr. Pole * Olive Sloane as Miss Crystal * Paul Whitsun-Jones as Cyril * Barry Keegan as Max * John Horsley as Supt. Blake * Harold Goodwin as Bates * David Davenport as Sergeant Jones * Catharina Ferraz as Mrs. Landi * John Grima as Albin * Arthur Lovegrove Arthur Lovegrove (15 July 1913 – 7 November 1981) was a British actor and playwright. His comedy ''Goodnight Mrs Puffin'' starring Irene Handl, ran for 3 years in London's West End, from 1961. Filmography * ''Noose'' (1948) - Drummer (u ... as Saunders References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The British 'B' Film''. Palgrav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Of Events
A chain of events is a number of actions and their effects that are contiguous and linked together that results in a particular outcome. In the physical sciences, chain reactions are a primary example. Determinism ''Determinism'' is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition and behaviour, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken ''chain of events''. With numerous historical debates, many philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist from traditions throughout the world. In value theory In value theory, it is the amount of cause and effects of the chain of events before generating intrinsic value that separates high and low grades of instrumental value. The ''chain of events duration'' is the time it takes to reach the terminal event. In value theory this is generally the intrinsic value (also called terminal value). It is contrasted with ethic value duration, which is the time that an object has any value intensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rx Murder
''Rx Murder'' is a 1958 American crime film directed by Derek Twist and written by John W. Gossage and Derek Twist. It is based on the 1955 novel ''The Deeds of Dr. Deadcert'' by Joan Fleming. The film stars Rick Jason, Lisa Gastoni, Marius Goring, Sandu Scott, Mary Merrall and Vida Hope. It was released on February 18, 1958 by 20th Century Fox. Plot Cast *Rick Jason as Jethro Jones *Lisa Gastoni as Kitty Mortlock *Marius Goring as Doctor Henry Dysert *Sandu Scott as Stella Dysert *Mary Merrall as Miss Bettyhill *Vida Hope as Louise *Helen Shingler as Charlotte *Phyllis Neilson-Terry Phyllis Neilson-Terry (15 October 1892 – 25 September 1977) was an English actress. She was a member of the third generation of the theatrical dynasty the Terry family. After early successes in the classics, including several leading William ... as Lady Lacy * Nicholas Hannen as Colonel *Kynaston Reeves as Mr. Sparrow *Avice Landone as Mrs. Motlock *Frederick Leister as Dr. Alexander *P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intent To Kill (1958 Film)
''Intent to Kill'' is a 1958 British film noir thriller directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Todd, Betsy Drake and Herbert Lom. The film was based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Brian Moore (written under the pen-name Michael Bryan). It was shot on location in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with an international cast of European and North American actors. Plot Having previously survived an assassination attempt, Juan Menda (Lom), president of an unspecified South American country, is moved to Montreal under an anonymous pseudonym for treatment of a potentially fatal cranial blood clot. His political opponents have got wind of his whereabouts and hire a trio of Canadian hitmen to finish the job. Menda's aide Francisco (Carlo Giustini) is also in town, and unknown to Menda he is actually a prime-mover in the assassination plot, keeping close to Menda while duplicitously passing on information to the would-be killers. Not only is Francisco an unsuspected political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face In The Night
''Face in the Night'' is a 1957 British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Griffith Jones, Lisa Gastoni and Vincent Ball. It was based on the novel ''Suspense'' by prolific crime writer Bruce Graeme. The film was released in the U.S. as ''Menace in the Night''. Plot A young woman witnesses a mailbag robbery that ends with a dead postman, but she is intimidated into not coming forward. Cast * Griffith Jones ... Rapson * Lisa Gastoni ... Jean Francis * Vincent Ball ... Bob Meredith * Eddie Byrne ... Art * Victor Maddern ... Ted * Clifford Evans ... Inspector Ford * Joan Miller ... Victor's Wife * Leonard Sachs ... Victor * Leslie Dwyer ... Toby * Jenny Laird ... Postman's Widow * Angela White ... Betty Francis * Barbara Couper ... Mrs. Francis * Andre Van Gyseghem ... Bank Manager * Marie Burke ... Auntie Critical reception Allmovie wrote, "this British crime quickie reads rather better than it plays"; while ''TV Guide'' wrote that the film is "ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man From Tangier
''Man from Tangier'' (released in the United States as ''Thunder over Tangier'') is a 1957 British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni and Martin Benson. Plot summary A criminal flees from Tangier to London with forged money plates, leading to the gang he works for sending a dangerous woman to pursue him. Main cast * Robert Hutton as Chuck Collins * Lisa Gastoni as Michele * Martin Benson as Voss * Derek Sydney as Darracq * Leonard Sachs as Heinrich * Emerton Court as Armstrong * Richard Shaw as Johnny * Robert Raglan as Inspector Meredith * Harold Berens as Sammy * Jack Allen as Rex * Michael Balfour as Spade Murphy * Frank Forsyth as Sergeant Irons * Reginald Hearne as Walters * Fred Lake as Hotel Porter * Alex Gallier as Max * Marianne Stone as Woman in Hotel * Ronnie Clark as Coster Release ''Man in Tangier'' was cut by the British Board of Film Classification to 67 minutes running time, in order to achieve a "U" classificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Murder At St Trinian's
''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'' is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder, co-written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries and Richard Wattis; the film also includes a brief cameo of Alastair Sim, who reprising his lead role in the 1954 film, '' The Belles of St. Trinian's''. Inspired by the '' St Trinian's School'' comic strips by British cartoonist Ronald Searle, the film is the second entry in the ''St. Trinian's'' film series, with its plot seeing the students of the fictional school making plans to secure a place on a European tour, all while subsequently aiding a criminal who is secretly seeking to escape the country with stolen jewels. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise given to the evolution of the comedy following the first film. It was later succeeded by a sequel, '' The Pure Hell of St Trinian's'', in 1960. Plot At St. Trinian's, the students run wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |