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Mariangela Giordano
Mariangela Giordano (2 September 1937 – 16 July 2011) was an Italian film and television actress. Life and career Born in Dolcedo, Imperia, Italy as Maria Angela Giordano, the daughter of a journalist, Giordano was elected Miss Liguria in 1954. Then she almost immediately started an intense film career, mainly appearing in genre films in which she was sometimes credited as Mary Jordan. She is known to cult horror movie fans for her starring roles in ''Giallo in Venice'', ''Patrick Lives Again'', ''The Devil's Daughter'', ''Satan's Baby Doll'', ''Burial Ground'' and ''Killer Barbys''. Since the 1980s, Giordano focused her career on television, appearing in the TV series ''Skipper'' and ''I ragazzi del muretto'', among others. She died in Dolcedo on 16 July 2011. Selected filmography * ''Il falco d'oro'' (1955) - Seconda domestica * ''Cortile'' (1955) - The Girl asking Gargiulo for a Lift (uncredited) * ''Dramma nel porto'' (1955) * ''Da qui all'eredità'' (1955) * ''La ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolcedo
Dolcedo ( lij, Dôçeo, locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about northwest of Imperia. The communal seat, Piazza, is located in the lower valley of the Prino stream. The other main centers are Isolalunga, Costa Carnara, Bellissimi and Lecchiore. Dolcedo borders the following municipalities: Badalucco, Civezza, Imperia, Montalto Ligure, Pietrabruna, Prelà, Taggia, and Vasia. History The boroughs of Dolcedo appeared in the early Middle Ages, populated by refugees from the Ligurian coast. Later it was a fief of the Clavesana family. In the 12th century cultivation of olive became a mainstay of the area. In 1228 the Clavesana ceded their lands to the commune of Genoa. Main sights *Parish church of St. Thomas, in Baroque style (1613). *Medieval church of ''Santa Maria di Castellazzo''. *Sanctuary of Acquasanta. *Oratory of St. Lawrence, with two small bell towers. *Chapel of St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reward's Yours
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Fracassa's Journey
''Captain Fracassa's Journey'' ( it, Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa) is a 1990 Italian comedy film directed by Ettore Scola. The film is based on the 1863 novel '' Captain Fracasse'' by Théophile Gautier. It was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot The story takes place in France during 1600s. A ramshackle theater company of Commedia dell'arte (Comedy of Art) has to roam through the provinces, hoping to reach the court of Louis XIII. However, it often remains for days on a single place. In fact, a member of the company is seriously ill and so the actor who plays Punch (Troisi) tells how it all took place to a traveler who sees the bandwagon. The theater company recently was already going to visit the King of France that he might have better luck presenting their games and shows, but they ran into a storm. There, the members sought refuge in what appeared a ruined castle, where they are greeted by a servant (Ciccio Ingrassia) and his young impoverished m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Volpone
''Il volpone'' is a 1988 Italian comedy film directed in by Maurizio Ponzi, inspired by Ben Jonson's comedy with the same name. The film stars Enrico Montesano, Enrico Maria Salerno and Paolo Villaggio. Plot Set in the Ligurian Riviera during the 1980s, it features Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Maria Volpone, a rich but apparently ill ship company owner. He is surrounded by a series of relatives and friends (played by Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Montagnani, Alessandro Haber) who blandish him in order to inherit his estate. The shrewd Volpone, in return, organizes a hoax against them to betray their greed. In the movie, he is joined by a new waiter, Bartolomeo Mosca (Enrico Montesano), who quickly shows himself to be as cunning as Volpone in arranging humiliations. Cast *Enrico Montesano: Bartolomeo Mosca *Enrico Maria Salerno: Ciro Corvino *Renzo Montagnani: Raffaele Voltore *Athina Cenci: Marta Corbaccio * Alessandro Haber: Ernesto Corbaccio *Mariangela Giordano: Eliana Voltore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Io E Mia Sorella
''Io e mia sorella'' (internationally released as ''Me and My Sister'' and ''My Sister and I'') is a 1987 Italian romantic comedy-drama film written, directed and starred by Carlo Verdone. For this film Elena Sofia Ricci was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and a Silver Ribbon in the same category. The film also won a Silver Ribbon for best actress (Ornella Muti) and a David di Donatello for Best Script. Plot Serena and Carlo are a happily married couple of musicians, living in Spoleto, Italy. After the death of Carlo's mother, his sister Silvia returns after a long absence and she disrupts the peaceful family balance with her carefree and self-centered attitude. The woman has kept changing jobs and location across countries, leaving unsettled matters and relationships everywhere, borrowing money around and getting into troubles with the law. She has left her relatives without news for years, she has abandoned her Italian husband without completing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noi Uomini Duri
''Noi uomini duri'' (i.e. "We tough men") is a 1987 Italian comedy film directed by Maurizio Ponzi. Plot Mario (Enrico Montesano), a tram-driver, and Silvio (Renato Pozzetto), a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course. Among evidence of daring, unusual gimmicks to learn and little food, it's a terrible life. But at least there is, for Silvio, the spasm to Cora, the wife of a sort of Rambo, who wins all the various tests of the course. Cast * Enrico Montesano: Mario Fortini * Renato Pozzetto: Silvio * Isabel Russinova: Cora * Alessandra Mussolini: Adua * Novello Novelli: Berno Berni, Sr. * Mariangela Giordano: Teresa * Maria-Pia Casilio: Ines See also * List of Italian films of 1987 A list of films produced in Italy in 1987 (see 1987 in film): References Footnotes Sources * External links Italian films of 1987at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1987 1987 File:1987 Events Coll .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satan's Baby Doll
''Satan's Baby Doll'' ( it, La bimba di Satana) is a 1983 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bianchi. Plot The daughter (Jacqueline Dupré) and brother of a dead aristocrat are placed in the care of an evil nun in a remote Spanish castle. The daughter embarks on a rampage of lust and murder after becoming possessed by the spirit of her dead mother. Cast * Jaqueline Dupré as Miria Aguilar * Mariangela Giordan as Sol * Aldo Sanbrell as Antonio Aguilar * Joe Davers as Isidro * Giancarlo Del Duca as Dr. Juan Suarez * Alfonso Gaita as Ignazio Aguilar * Marina Hedmann as Maria Aguilar Production For ''Satan's Baby Doll'', Gabriele Crisanti and screenwriter Piero Regnoli opted to remake the film ''Malabimba – The Malicious Whore'', which included casting Mariangela Giordano to reprise her role. Giordano spoke negatively on the role, stating that remaking ''Malabimba'' was "a stupid move. I felt used, abused and exploited." It was the last film Giordano made with Crisanti, endin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burial Ground (film)
''Burial Ground'' (original title: ''Le Notti del terrore'', also known as ''Nights of Terror'', ''Zombi Horror'', ''The Zombie Dead'') is an Italian grindhouse zombie movie directed by Andrea Bianchi. It is one of several films released under the alternative title of '' Zombie 3''. Plot A scientist studying an ancient crypt near a grand mansion accidentally unleashes an evil curse. The curse reanimates the dead buried in the area, and the zombies devour the scientist. Three jet-set couples and the son of one of the women arrive at the mansion at the scientist's invitation. Rotting corpses quickly attack the guests as they begin rising from their graves. The group locks themselves in the mansion, and the zombies begin their siege past nightfall. The zombies then start to display unusually high levels of intelligence, using tools, axes to chop through doors, etc. One of the guests, George (Roberto Caporali), tries shooting at them but quickly runs out of bullets. Zombies then bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Is Still Alive
''Patrick Still Lives'' ( it, Patrick vive ancora, also known as ''Patrick Is Still Alive'') is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Mario Landi, and his last film. It is a low-budget unauthorized sequel of the Australian horror ''Patrick'' from two years earlier. It is known primarily for its graphic scenes of sex and gore, notably an extremely graphic scene of rape, which ended with the victim disembowelled with a poker. The film was shot in the same house later used as main set in '' Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror''. Plot The film follows events surrounding a young boy named Patrick sent into a coma after a roadside accident and who develops psychic powers with which he is free to commit brutal murders. Cast *Sacha Pitoëff as Dr. Herschel *Gianni Dei as Patrick Herschel *Mariangela Giordano as Stella Randolph *Carmen Russo as Sheryl Cough *Paolo Giusti as Mr. Davis *Franco Silva as Lyndon Cough *Andrea Belfiore as Lydia Grant (uncredited) Production Mariangela Giorda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giallo A Venezia
''Giallo a Venezia'' (''Giallo in Venice'') is a 1979 Italian giallo film directed by Mario Landi. The film released on December 31, 1979 in Italy and starred Leonora Fani. It is known primarily for its extremely graphic scenes of sex and gore, including a woman's leg being slowly sawed off with a long knife. There is also a Brazilian VHS version containing XXX scenes under the title ''Pesadelo em Veneza''. Synopsis The film follows a detective investigating the murder of a married couple involving a sexually abusive cocaine addict husband while, at the same time, an unknown killer commits multiple grisly murders. Cast *Leonora Fani as Flavia *Jeff Blynn as Angelo De Paul *Gianni Dei as Fabio * Michele Renzullo as Andrea Caron * Eolo Capritti as Maestrin *Vassili Karis as Bruno Nielsen (as Vassili Karamesinis) * Giancarlo Del Duca as Alberto, the Coroner *Mariangela Giordano as Marzia (as Maria Angela Giordan) Production While filming the scene in which Mariangela Giordano was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malabimba – The Malicious Whore
''Malabimba – The Malicious Whore'' ( it, Malabimba "wicked child") is a 1979 Italian sexploitation film directed by Andrea Bianchi. Plot In the castle of a wealthy family, a seance is held to contact the spirit of a woman who had been murdered. Instead, the spirit of Lucrezia, an ancestor of the family, is recalled during the seance. Lucrezia tries to take possession of the soul of Sister Sofia, who has lived in the castle to take care of the paralytic Adolfo, owner of the castle together with his brother Andrea, the husband of the murdered woman. Not succeeding, she takes possession instead of the body of the adolescent Bimba: she is the daughter of Andrea and the murdered woman, and until then had spent a very withdrawn and reserved life. In the following days the behavior of Bimba radically changes, due to the evil influence of Lucrezia's soul, and several times, she falls prey of the perverse sexual urges of Lucrezia, while unconsciously sheds light on the sexual and perver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Commissario Di Ferro
'' Il commissario di ferro'' ( is a 1978 Italian ''poliziottesco'' film directed by Stelvio Massi. Plot Commissioner Mauro Mariani is known for his severity towards criminals and for his habit of acting on his own, which cost him the transition from Dr. Crivelli's mobile team to a simple neighborhood police station, where he can assist him. it's Brigadier Ingravallo. One day, while Mariani is with his wife Vera and his son Claudio, from whom he usually lives separated, a boy named Sergio Conforti bursts into his office and, holding an officer under the gun, forces him to call the absent commissioner because he wants to kill, considering him guilty of his father's suicide, arrested by Mariani two years earlier. The commissioner finds out about it when Vera and Claudio, having gone to the office to wait for him, end up in the hands of Conforti. The boy, in a delirium of revenge, takes the child with him and later telephones the inspector asking him to pick him up where and when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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