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Pietro De Vico (archbishop)
Pietro De Vico (1 February 1911 – 10 December 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was born in Naples, and died in Rome. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campori. Selected filmography * ''Christmas at Camp 119'' (1947) - (uncredited) * ''Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) - Cinese * ''Toto the Sheik'' (1950) - L'arabo della stanza bianca * ''Rome-Paris-Rome'' (1951) - Sposino * ''The Passaguai Family'' (1951) - Il ragazzo di Marcella * ''The Passaguai Family Gets Rich'' (1952) - Un autista * ''Il viale della speranza'' (1953) - Tonio * ''La valigia dei sogni'' (1953) - Il regista del provino * '' Ore 10: lezione di canto'' (1955) - Pietro - uno dei Five Jolly * ''Eighteen Year Olds'' (1955) - Campanelli * ''Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna'' (1956) - Franz * ''Sette canzoni per sette sorelle'' (1957) - Romeo * ''Serenata a Maria'' (1957) - Pasqualino, the painter * ''A sud niente di nuovo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Its province-level municipality is the third-most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 3,115,320 residents, and its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately 20 miles. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope ( grc, Παρθενόπη) was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major role in the merging of Greek and Roman society, and was a significant cultural centre under the Romans. Naples served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Rivals (1960 Film)
''The Two Rivals'' (Spanish: ''Los dos rivales'', Italian: ''Meravigliosa'') is a 1960 Italian-Spanish film directed by Carlos Arévalo and Siro Marcellini and starring Luciano Tajoli, Rita Giannuzzi and Nunzio Gallo Nunzio Gallo (25 March 1928 – 22 February 2008) was an Italian singer. He was born in Naples and represented his country in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, coming 6th. The song he performed, "Corde Della Mia Chitarra", is famous for being the ....Cebollada & Gil p.1752 Cast References Bibliography * ''Pascual Cebollada & Luis Rubio Gil. ''Enciclopedia del cine español: cronología''. Ediciones del Serbal, 1996. External links * 1960 films Spanish comedy films Italian comedy films 1960s Spanish-language films Films directed by Siro Marcellini Films directed by Carlos Arévalo 1960s Spanish films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Spain-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedotti E Bidonati
''Sedotti e bidonati'' (Italian for "Seduced and cheated") is a 1964 comedy film written and directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. Plot Cast *Franco Franchi as Franco La Capra * Ciccio Ingrassia as Ciccio La Capra * Mia Genberg as Mia * Pia Genberg as Pia * Alberto Bonucci as Arturo * Leopoldo Trieste as Don Marcuzzo * Elena Nicolai as The Baroness * Alfredo Marchetti as Sasà * Miranda Martino as Alfonso's Widow * Pietro De Vico as The Master Builder * Oreste Palella as The Inspector * Lino Banfi as Cousin Pasquale References External links *''Sedotti e bidonati''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 ... Films directed by Giorgio Bianchi Italian buddy comedy films 1960s buddy comedy fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Ever Happened To Baby Toto?
''What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?'' ( it, Che fine ha fatto Totò Baby?) is a 1964 Italian black comedy film written and directed by Ottavio Alessi, starring Totò. It is a parody of Robert Aldrich's '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?''. Plot A pair of step brothers, Totò Baby and Pietro, make a living stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. They discover within a stolen piece of luggage a corpse. Trying to get rid of the incriminating evidence, they mistakenly swap the suitcase with a German hitchhiker. Forced to retrieve the "corpus delicti" they are discovered by Mischa, a Count who is hosting the beautiful foreign tourists. He decides to blackmail the step brothers, asking for their assassination of his rich wife, in exchange for his silence with the police. After the death of the woman (who loses her life as a result of a fright), Totò Baby becomes a sadistic serial killer as he loses all inhibition after starting to eat by mistake marijuana as if it were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Masked Man Against The Pirates
''The Masked Man Against the Pirates'' ( it, L'uomo mascherato contro i pirati and on some Italian prints as L'Uomo Mascherato Contro Il Corsaro Nero) is a 1964 Italian pirate swashbuckler film co-written and directed by Vertunnio De Angelis and starring George Hilton. Plot In 1659, Captain Garcia, the most cunning and ferocious pirate in the waters of the New World, encounters a Spanish galleon camouflaged as merchant ship. When Garcia's ship, the Albatross, comes close and fires a warning shot, the Spanish ship opens fire, hitting the Albatross. Now close enough, the pirates board and put the Spanish ship on fire. Garcia is defeated by the Spanish captain, Gomez, but when Gomez threatens to kill him, he in turn threatens that his men will kill the Spanish prisoners on his pirate island if he does not return. Ruiz, Gomez's officer, still urges Gomez to kill Garcia when Juarez captures Anna, the Spanish princess of Aragon, and the Spanish are forced to surrender. In his quarter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swindlers (1963 Film)
''The Swindlers'' ( it, Gli imbroglioni), aka ''Los Mangantes'', is a 1963 Italian comedy film written and directed by Lucio Fulci, starring Franco and Ciccio. Plot The film takes place in a court of law and is divided into an anthology format, spotlighting four criminal cases. The defendants consist of the following: a wealthy industrialist charged with fraud, two nuns who have gotten in trouble with the guardian of their order, the president of a football team implicated in illegal sporting activities, and two Sicilian businessmen who conned come investors into believing they have discovered an archaeological find. Cast *Walter Chiari: dott. Mario Corti *Antonella Lualdi: Sister Celestina *Raimondo Vianello: Tabanelli *Franco Franchi: Salvatore Di Carmine/ Rizzo/ Sposito * Ciccio Ingrassia: Napoleone Palumbo/ Nostradomine/ Roccanera *Luciana Gilli: Liliana Ferri *Elio Crovetto: Gustav Schultz * Xenia Valderi: Lilliana's mother *Aroldo Tieri: Oscar Taverna *Dominique Boscher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladiator Of Rome
''Gladiator of Rome'' ( it, Il gladiatore di Roma) is a 1962 Italian adventure film directed by Mario Costa. Co-written by Gian Paolo Callegari and Giuseppe Mariani, it stars Gordon Scott.Howard Hughes. ''Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult''. I.B.Tauris, 2011. . The film is also known as ''Battles of the Gladiators'' in the United Kingdom. Cast *Gordon Scott as Marcus *Wandisa Guida as Nista *Roberto Risso as Valerio Jr. *Ombretta Colli as Aglae *Alberto Farnese as Vezio Rufo *Gianni Solaro as Macrino * Charles Borromel as Anio *Piero Lulli as Astarte *Mirko Ellis as Frasto *Pietro De Vico as Pompilio *Nando Tamberlani as Valerio's Father *Andrea Aureli as Settimio *Raf Baldassarre as Gladiator * Célina Cély *Pietro Tordi as Slaves guard * Germana Francioli * Pietro Ceccarelli as Gladiator *Miranda Campa as Porzia *Giulio Battiferri as Spy slave * Leo Garavaglia * Eleonora Vargas as Prisca See also *1962 in film *List of Italian films of 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totò Diabolicus
Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il Principe della risata'' ("the Prince of laughter"), was an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, dramatist, poet, singer and lyricist. He was commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. He is best known for his funny and sometimes cynical character as a comedian in theatre and then in many successful films shot from the 1940s to the 1960s, but he also worked with many iconic Italian film directors in dramatic/poetic roles. Early life Totò was born Antonio Vincenzo Stefano Clemente on 15 February 1898 in the Rione Sanità, a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente (1881–1947), a Sicilian woman, and the Neapolitan marquis Giuseppe de Curtis (1873–1944). His father did not legally recognize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Judgment (1961 Film)
''The Last Judgment'' ( it, Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color. Plot At the morning of a normal day of a Naples that begins to hear complex and not always positive effects of the economic boom, a stentorian voice (Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) which seems to come down from heaven announces that "At 18 begins the Last Judgement!". The announcement is repeated with increasing insistence, first treated with disdain and then more and more frightening. The plot is fragmented into a series of scenarios and stories intertwined: the preparation of the great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totòtruffa 62
''Totòtruffa '62'' (also known as ''Totó Vigarista'') is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. Plot summary Antonio is a poor man who has to support his daughter and especially he should pay her stay at a prestigious boarding school to study dance. Antonio so starts with his friend Camillo to deceive the poor people of Rome stealing many sums of money with various confidence tricks. Among the various scams that famous are the receipt of a billion dollars for the prince of Katanga (Antonio in blackface) and the sale of the Trevi Fountain to a foolish entrepreneur. Cast *Totò: Antonio Peluffo *Nino Taranto: Camillo * Estella Blain: Diana Peluffo *Ernesto Calindri: Commissario Malvasia *Geronimo Meynier: Franco Malvasia *Luigi Pavese: cav. Terlizzi * Lia Zoppelli: La direttrice *Carla Macelloni: Paola *Mario Castellani: Il professore *Oreste Lionello: Pippo, l'amico di Franco *John Kitzmiller: L'ambasciatore del Catonga *Ugo D'Alessio: Decio Cavallo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 Marines Per 100 Ragazze
''5 marines per 100 ragazze'' is a 1961 Italian "musicarello" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Virna Lisi. Cast * Virna Lisi as Grazia * Mario Carotenuto as Admiral Michigan * Hélène Chanel as Elena * Little Tony as Tony Collina * Vittorio Congia as Charlie * as Aurora * Paul Wynter as Sam * Raffaella Carrà as Mirella * Sergio Raimondi as Robert * Franco Franchi as Factotum * Ciccio Ingrassia as Factotum *Pietro De Vico as Attendant *Bice Valori as Director *Raimondo Vianello as General Patterson *Ugo Tognazzi Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. Early life Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk fo ... as Sgt. Imparato References External links * 1961 films Italian comedy films 1960s Italian-language films 1961 comedy films Films directed by Mario Mattoli Films scored by Gianni Ferrio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come September
''Come September'' is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. Plot Wealthy American businessman Robert Talbot owns a villa on the Ligurian coast, where he and his Roman mistress Lisa Fellini spend September each year. When Robert visits in July and calls Lisa en route from Milano, she cancels her wedding and rushes to meet him. Upon his arrival at the villa, Robert discovers that in his absence, his major domo Maurice Clavell has converted the villa into a hotel, currently hosting a group of teenage girls including Sandy and their chaperone Margaret Allison. Their departure is delayed when Margaret slips on the cork of a champagne bottle and is forced to spend a day in the hospital. Four teenage boys, led by Tony, who had irritated Robert on the drive to his villa, set up camp outside the villa and begin courting the girls. Robert chaperones the girls on a sightseeing tour and to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
