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The Cuckoo Clock (film)
''The Cuckoo Clock'' (Italian: ''L'orologio a cucù'') is a 1938 Italian historical mystery thriller film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Vittorio De Sica, Oretta Fiume and Laura Solari.Aprà p.85 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Livorno. The film's sets were designed by artistic director Gino Brosio. Synopsis At the time of Napoleon's escape from Elba, a wealthy banker from Livorno hides his gold in a cuckoo clock to protect it from seizure by revolutionaries. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as Il capitano Ducci * Oretta Fiume as Paolina * Laura Solari as Elvira * Lamberto Picasso as Il conte Scarabelli * Ugo Ceseri as Barni, il fanatico bonapartista * Gemma Bolognesi as La 'Nenna' * Guglielmo Sinaz as Il banchiere Rosen * Augusto Marcacci as Kreuss, l'ispettore di polizia * Guglielmo Barnabò as Il sergente MacNeill * Sergio Dani as Il lord ammiraglio * Checco Rissone as Narciso * Giuseppe Pierozzi Giuseppe Pierozzi (8 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Mastrocinque
Camillo Mastrocinque (11 May 1901 – 23 April 1969) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1937 and 1968, and is known to horror film fans for directing ''Terror in the Crypt'' (1964) starring Christopher Lee, and ''An Angel for Satan'' (1966) starring Barbara Steele. Selected filmography * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * ''Don Pasquale'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * '' A Living Statue'' (1943) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * ''Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) * ''That Ghost of My Husband'' (1950) * ''Anna's Sin'' (1952) * ''Toto in Hell'' (1955) * '' Are We Men or Corporals?'' (1955) * ''Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy'' (1956) * ''Toto, Peppino and the Outlaws'' (1956) * ''The Band of Honest Men'' (1956) * ''Totò lascia o raddoppia?'' (1956) * ''The Lady Doctor'' (1957) * ''The Beautiful Legs of Sab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinecittà Studios
Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City Studios), is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed "Hollywood on the Tiber." History The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, his son Vittorio, and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi under the slogan "''Il cinema è l'arma più forte''" ("Cinema is the most powerful weapon"). The purpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Barnabò
Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954. Life and career Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse, with the Annibale Ninchi's company. Since then he was enrolled by some of the most important stage companies of his time, working among others with Marta Abba, Alda Borelli, Maria Melato, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa. In 1927 Barnabò made his screen debut in the silent film ''Beauty of the World'', but his film career took off with the sound cinema, when he became one of the most active character actors of the 1930s and the 1940s. Specialized in good-natured and bourgeois character roles, he is best known as the villain capitalist in Vittorio De Sica's '' Miracle in Milan''. Barnabò was married to actress , with whom he often worked in films and on stage. Selected filmography * ''Beauty of the World'' (1927) * '' The Las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Marcacci
Augusto Marcacci (4 June 1892 – 7 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor.Mancini p.229 Selected filmography * '' Dimmed Lights'' (1934) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * ''Condottieri'' (1937) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * '' Beyond Love'' (1940) * ''Eternal Melodies'' (1940) * ''The First Woman Who Passes'' (1940) * ''First Love'' (1941) * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) * '' Girl of the Golden West'' (1942) * '' Love Story'' (1942) * '' Invisible Chains'' (1942) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * ''A Little Wife'' (1943) * ''Rita of Cascia Rita of Cascia, born Margherita Lotti (1381 – 22 May 1457), was an Italians, Italian widow and Augustinian nuns, Augustinian nun venerated as a List of Catholic saints, saint in the Roman Catholic Church. After Rita's husband died, she joine ...'' (1943) References Bibliography * Mancini, Elaine. ''Struggles of the Italian film industry during fascism, 1930-1935''. UMI Research Press, 1985. Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Sinaz
Guglielmo Sinaz (20 November 1885 – 5 February 1947) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1947. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''I Love You Only'' (1935) * '' The Great Appeal'' (1936) * ''It Was I!'' (1937) * ''Hands Off Me!'' (1937) * '' The Last Enemy'' (1938) * ''Luciano Serra, Pilot'' (1938) * ''Naples of Olden Times'' (1938) * '' Star of the Sea'' (1938) * ''All of Life in One Night'' (1938) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * ''Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * ''We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) * ''Diamonds'' (1939) * ''The Silent Partner'' (1939) * '' Non me lo dire!'' (1940) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * '' The Prisoner of Santa Cruz'' (1941) * ''Light in the Darkness'' (1941) * ''A Husband for the Month of April'' (1941) * ''Bengasi'' (1942) * '' Two Hearts'' (1943) * ''Harlem'' (1943) * ''Without a Woman'' (1943) * ''Before Him All Rome Trembled'' (1946) * ''The Great Dawn ''The Great Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemma Bolognesi
Gemma Bolognesi (4 November 1894 – 26 March 1983) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1916 to 1954. Biography Bolognesi began acting at an early age and made her debut with the ensemble of the Teatro Manzoni in Milan under Marco Praga. In 1919 she became the ensemble's first actress alongside and the following year led her own ensemble with . Further seasons of her stage career were alongside Enzo Biliotti (1921) and from 1922 to 1926 the ''Teatro del Popolo'' (as its first actress from 1924), again in Milan. The following season saw her in the theater company around Luigi Zoncada and later, in 1932, next to Carlo Tamberlani. Bolognesi had made her film debut in 1916 in ''Cura di baci'' by Emilio Graziani-Walter, but found little satisfaction with it, so she concentrated on her theater work. It was not until the mid-1930s, when the time of the big stage roles was over, that she developed into a sought-after character actress playing cultured w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Ceseri
Ugo Ceseri (30 June 1893 – 3 December 1940) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in forty two films between 1931 and his death in 1940. In 1934 he appeared in the play '' 18 BL'', an attempt to create a mass theatre by the Fascist government of Italy. The play was directed by Alessandro Blasetti and featured 2,000 amateur actors.Balfour p.12-14 Selected filmography * ''Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * ''Palio'' (1931) * ''The Opera Singer'' (1932) * '' One Night with You'' (1932) * ''Model Wanted'' (1933) * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''Seconda B'' (1934) * '' The Old Guard'' (1934) * ''Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * '' Just Married'' (1934) * ''Red Passport'' (1935) * ''Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1935) * ''Aldebaran'' (1935) *''Music in the Square'' (1936) * ''The Dance of Time'' (1936) * '' But It's Nothing Serious'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''The Countess of Parma'' (1936) * ''The Carnival Is Here Again'' (1937) * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamberto Picasso
Lamberto Picasso (21 October 1880 – 17 September 1962) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1914 and 1953. Selected filmography * ''The Naked Truth'' (1914) * ''The Doctor's Secret'' (1931) * ''Paradise'' (1932) * '' Your Money or Your Life'' (1932) * '' Fanny'' (1933) * ''Together in the Dark'' (1933) * ''Everybody's Woman'' (1934) * '' The Wedding March'' (1934) * ''Those Two'' (1935) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) * ''Giuseppe Verdi'' (1938) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * ''Ettore Fieramosca'' (1938) * ''Wealth Without a Future'' (1939) * ''Diamonds'' (1939) * ''No Man's Land'' (1939) * '' Beyond Love'' (1940) * ''Caravaggio'' (1941) * ''A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''The Countess of Castiglione'' (1942) * ''Rita of Cascia'' (1943) * ''Measure for Measure'' (1943) * ''I'll Sing No More'' (1945) * '' The Lovers'' (1946) * ''Mad About Opera'' (1948) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuckoo Clock
A cuckoo clock is, typically, a pendulum clock that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close their beaks while leaning forwards, whereas others have only the bird's body leaning forward. The mechanism to produce the cuckoo call has been in use since the middle of the 18th century and has remained almost without variation. It is unknown who invented the cuckoo clock and where the first one was made. It is thought that much of its development and evolution was made in the Black Forest area in southwestern Germany (in the modern state of Baden-Württemberg), the region where the cuckoo clock was popularized and from where it was exported to the rest of the world, becoming world-famous from the mid-1850s on. Today, the cuckoo clock is one of the favourite souvenirs of travellers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It has become a cultural icon of Germany. Characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banker
A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a Bank regulation, high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure accounting liquidity, liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways functioned as a continuation of ideas and concept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elba
Elba ( it, isola d'Elba, ; la, Ilva) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino on the Italian mainland, and the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago. It is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park, and the third largest island in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia. It is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea about east of the French island of Corsica. The island is part of the province of Livorno and is divided into seven municipalities, with a total population of about 30,000 inhabitants which increases considerably during the summer. The municipalities are Portoferraio (which is also the island's principal town), Campo nell'Elba, Capoliveri, Marciana, Marciana Marina, Porto Azzurro, and Rio. Elba was the site of Napoleon's first exile, from 1814 to 1815. Geography Elba is the largest remaining stretch of land from the ancient tract that once connected the Italian peninsula to Corsica. The northern coast faces the Ligurian Sea, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the ''de facto'' leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again in 1815. Napoleon's political and cultural legacy endures to this day, as a highly celebrated and controversial leader. He initiated many liberal reforms that have persisted in society, and is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. His wars and campaigns are studied by militaries all over the world. Between three and six million civilians and soldiers perished in what became known as the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica, not long af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
