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Mario Zampi
Mario Zampi (1 November 19032 December 1963) was an Italian film producer and director. A co-founder of Two Cities Films, a British production company, he is most closely associated with British comedies of the 1950s. Biography Zampi began his career as an actor in Italy at the age of 17. By 1930, he was working for Warner Bros. as a film editor in London. In 1937, he and compatriot Filippo Del Giudice founded Two Cities Films. While the company was noted for such serious films as ''In Which We Serve'', ''Henry V'', and ''Hamlet'', Zampi is most remembered for comedies. He made his mark with such films as ''Laughter in Paradise'' (1951), ''The Naked Truth'' (1957), and ''Too Many Crooks'' (1959), often in the dual role of director and producer. Filmography Director and producer unless otherwise indicated. *'' Tredici uomini e un cannone'' (1936) producer *'' 13 Men and a Gun'' (1938) *''French Without Tears'' (1940) producer *'' Spy for a Day'' (1940) *''Freedom Radio'' aka ''A V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sora (FR)
Sora () is a town and ''comune'' of Lazio, Italy, in the province of Frosinone. It is built in a plain on the bank (geography), banks of the Liri. This part of the valley is the seat of some important manufacturing, especially of paper mills. The area around Sora is famous for the costumes of its peasants. History Sora, an ancient Volscian town, was thrice captured by the Roman Republic, Romans, in 345, 314, and 305 BCE, before they managed, in 303, by means of a colony 4,000 strong, to confirm its annexation as a Latin colony. In 209, it was one of the colonies that refused further contributions to the war against Hannibal. By the ''lex Julia'', it became a municipium, but under Augustus, it was colonized by soldiers of the legio IV Sorana, which had been mainly enrolled there. It belonged technically to ''Latium adiectum''. Located in the ''Ducatus Romanus'' under the authority of the pope during the early Dark Ages (historiography), Dark Ages, it was captured by the Lombard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spy For A Day
''Spy for a Day'' is a 1940 British comedy film, comedy thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Douglas Wakefield, Paddy Browne and Jack Allen (actor), Jack Allen. The screenplay concerns a British farmer who is abducted by the Germans during World War I. Premise During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles. Cast * Douglas Wakefield as Sam Gates * Paddy Browne as Martha Clowes * Jack Allen (actor), Jack Allen as Captain Bradshaw * Albert Lieven as Captain Hausemann * Nicholas Hannen (actor), Nicholas Hannen as Colonel Pemberton * Gibb McLaughlin as Colonel Ludwig * Allan Jeayes as Colonel Roberts * Alf Goddard as Sergeant Bryan * George Hayes (British actor), George Hayes as Corporal Boehme * Eliot Makeham as Trufit * Hay Petrie as Britt * O. B. Clarence as Medical Officer References External links * 1940 films 1940s spy comedy films British comedy thriller films Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Golden Hours
''Five Golden Hours'' is a 1961 Italian-British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and written by Hans Wilhelm, starring Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders, and featuring Dennis Price and John Le Mesurier. Plot Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) is a professional pallbearer and mourner in Rome who lives well off the extravagant gifts given to him by the rich widows he comforts. When he falls for the supposedly penniless Baroness Sandra (Charisse) – who is actually a rich "black widow" whose husbands all die – he concocts a Ponzi scheme to bilk three widows by taking money from them, telling them that he will invest it during the "five golden hours" between the closing of the stock exchange in Rome, and the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. However, the Baroness absconds with the cash, leaving Bondi in hock to the widows. He attempts to kill them, but the scheme fails and he pretends to have gone insane. In the sanatarium, his roommate is another debtor feignin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bottoms Up (1960 Film)
''Bottoms Up'' is a 1960 British comedy film. It stars Jimmy Edwards in a spin-off of his TV comedy series ''Whack-O!'', playing the seedy, alcoholic, School corporal punishment, cane-wielding headmaster of Chiselbury School, a fictional private school, British public school. Screenplay was by Michael Pertwee, with additional dialogue by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. The cast includes juvenile actor Mitch Mitchell, John "Mitch" Mitchell (as Wendover), who in the late 1960s was the drummer in The Jimi Hendrix Experience, using his adult stage name, Mitch Mitchell, and it also marks the first film appearance of Richard Briers. Plot summary Professor Jim Edwards is the headmaster of Chiselbury School, a private school, private boarding school for boys. A new head of the school's Board of Governors threatens to replace him as headmaster unless he can drastically improve the school's performance. When Edwards is also confronted by his bookmaker demanding money he owes and which he ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now And Forever (1956 Film)
''Now and Forever'' is a 1956 British drama film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Janette Scott, Vernon Gray and Kay Walsh. It is based on the play '' The Orchard Walls'' by R.F. Delderfield, and was Scott's first adult role after a career as a child star in Britain. The screenplay concerns an upper-class girl who becomes romantically involved with a garage mechanic, and they head for Gretna Green to elope. Plot Set in a market town in central England, Janette Grant is the 17 y.o. daughter of a wealthy, divorced couple who's lonely as her father rarely visits and her mother never finds time for her. She comes downstairs, ready to go to a musical performance at school. Expecting her mother to take her and give her support, Janette is upset that she decides to participate in a golf club competition as the slot just opened up. Mrs. Grant contacts Mellingham Motors to order a lift for Janette. When Mike Pritchard arrives to collect her, he overhears her begging her moral suppor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Ever After (1954 Film)
''Happy Ever after'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald and George Cole. Its plot concerns the accidental death of an Irish landowner who bequeaths his estate to his cousin. It was released in the United States under the title ''Tonight's the Night''. Production The film was originally known as ''O'Leary Night''. It was shot at the Elstree Studios of Associated British with sets designed by art director Ivan King. Forty Hall near Enfield doubled for the ancestral Irish home of the O'Learys. Location shooting also took place in Braughing in Hertfordshire, where the railway station was renamed Rathbarney for the duration of the filming. De Carlo said: "I think it will help me in comedy when it is released in this country. I have had my share of sirens and am happy to get away from them no matter what the part." Plot Aged General O'Leary is fatally injured while trying to jump a wall with his ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Chose Love
''I Chose Love'' (French: ''J'ai choisi l'amour'', Italian: ''Ho scelto l'amore'') is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Renato Rascel and Marisa Pavan. It was shot at the Cinecittà studios in Rome. Plot Boris Popovic, third class undersecretary, accompanies the head of the delegation Ivan Ivanovic and two other delegates to Italy to participate in the Feast of the Brotherhood. Fearful and suspicious of anyone, he has with him a precious "symbol" to be absolutely hidden from the eyes of the curious, a white dove locked in a cage. During a stop on the train, a gust of wind takes away his hat where he has hidden all his money: he goes down to retrieve it, but his sudden departure separates him from the rest of the delegation. The hat with the money is recovered by Mario, an aspiring sacristan accompanied by a priest in the convent, who chases it in vain to try to return it: thanks to a ride in the car, he ends up in Venice but finds himself lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Secret (1952 Film)
''Top Secret'' is a 1952 British black and white comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring George Cole, Oskar Homolka and Nadia Gray. A sanitation inspector is mistaken for an international spy. It was shot at the Elstree Studios of Associated British. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ivan King. The film was released in the United States as ''Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow''. Plot George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer.' Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them. All the while, George never knows what the fuss is about: he thinks that the British and Soviet authorities are interested in his new plans f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Dance With Me (1950 Film)
''Come Dance with Me'' is a 1950 British musical film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Max Wall, Gordon Humphris and Yvonne Marsh. The film was made by Zampi's Anglofilm and largely consisted of cabaret acts.Harper & Porter p.165 Cast * Max Wall - Manager * Gordon Humphris - Joe Smith - The Boy * Yvonne Marsh - The Girl * Barbara Hamilton - Kiki - Stage Girl * Vincent Ball - Secretary * Anton Karas - Himself * Anne Shelton - Herself * Derek Roy - Himself * Stanley Black Stanley Black OBE (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist. He wrote and arranged many film scores, recording prolifically for the Decca label (including their subsidiaries ''Lond ... and his orchestra References Bibliography * Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. ''British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference''. Oxford University Press, 2007. External links * 1950 films 1950 musical films Films directed by Mario Zampi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of The Past (film)
''Shadow of the Past'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Joyce Howard, Terence Morgan, and Michael Medwin. The screenplay involves a man who catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead. Cast * Joyce Howard as Lady in Black * Terence Morgan as John Harding * Michael Medwin as Dick Stevens * Andrew Osborn as George Bentley * Wylie Watson as Caretaker * Marie Ney as Mrs. Bentley * Ella Retford as Daily Help * Ronald Adam as Solicitor * Louise Gainsborough as Susie * Ian Fleming as Doctor Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corpora ...'' gave the film two out of four stars and described it as a "modest murder mystery...Tightly paced with several highly tense sequences." References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happiest Days Of Your Life (film)
''The Happiest Days of Your Life'' is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the 1947 play of the same name by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It is one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The film was made on location in Liss and at Riverside Studios, London. In several respects, including some common casting, it was a precursor of the '' St. Trinian's'' films of the 1950s and 1960s. Plot In September 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College: a boys' school in Hampshire. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch ( Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fatal Night
''The Fatal Night'' is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Lester Ferguson, Jean Short and Leslie Armstrong.Chibnall & McFarlane p.34 It is based on a 1925 short story, 'The Gentleman from America', by Michael Arlen about an American visitor to London who makes a bet with two Englishmen that he cannot spend a night alone in a 'haunted' house. The same story, under the original title, was adapted in 1956 as an episode of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Cast * Lester Ferguson as Puce * Jean Short as Geraldine * Leslie Armstron as Cyril * Brenda Hogan as Julia * Patrick Macnee as Tony * Aubrey Mallalieu Aubrey Mallalieu (8 June 1873 – 28 May 1948) was an English actor with a prolific career in supporting roles in films in the 1930s and 1940s. Mallalieu began life as George William Mallalieu, the son of William Mallalieu (c. 1845–1927), a ... as Yokel References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
