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The Great Swindle (1971 Film)
''The Great Swindle'' is a 1971 Spanish-Italian thriller film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde. It tells the story of a woman, Carla, who deceives and seduces several people, as she and others take on false identities and try to outsmart each other in deadly intrigues. The film's Spanish title is ''Historia de una traición''. It has two alternative Italian titles: ''Nel buio del terrore'' and ''Diabolicamente sole con il delitto''. Cast * Marisa Mell as Carla * Stephen Boyd as Arturo * Fernando Rey as Luis * Massimo Serato as Hugo * Simón Andreu Simón Andreu Trobat (born 1 January 1941) is a Spanish actor. He has appeared in more than 180 films and television shows since 1961. In 2013 he was awarded with the Nosferatu Award at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalu ... as the pilot * María Martín as Regina * Sylva Koscina as Lola References External links * 1970s thriller films 1971 films Films directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Antonio Nieves Conde
José Antonio Nieves Conde (22 December 1911http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/45978/jose-antonio-nieves-conde José Antonio Nieves Conde. Diccionario biográfico español. Real Academia de la Historia. Access 15 february 2020. in Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain – 14 September 2006) was a Spanish film maker, journalist, and screenplay writer, the director of feature films such as ''Surcos'' 'Furrows''(1951), ''Angustia'' 'Anguish''(1947), and ''Balarrasa'' 'Reckless''(1950). Biography Nieves Conde, part of a large family and with a military father, was interested in film from the time he was a child. Upon finishing secondary school in Segovia, he began to study law in Madrid, joining the Falange Española de las JONS (Spanish Phalanx of the Councils of the National Syndicalist Offensive), a fascist political party, whose social ideology would have a profound impact on his cinematographic works. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he joined the front as a voluntary Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Thriller Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Spanish Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Italian Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Spanish-language Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Thriller Films
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Italian Thriller Films
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Films Directed By José Antonio Nieves Conde
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Films
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, ''Eat the Document'', premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour. *April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film ''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971. *May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto. *May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures. *Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios. Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :''The Go-Between'', directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylva Koscina
Sylva Koscina (; born Silvija Košćina, ; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules ( Steve Reeves) in ''Hercules'' (1958) and ''Hercules Unchained'' (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in ''The Secret War of Harry Frigg'' (1968). Early life She was born Silvija Košćina ( el, label=Greek, Σύλβα Κοσκινού, Sýlva Koskinoú) to a Greek father, who had a hotel in the "West Coast" section of Split, Dalmatia, and a Polish mother. During World War II, in her preadolescence, Košćina was brought to Italy to live with her older sister, who had married an Italian citizen. After winning beauty contests as a teenager, she was offered modelling work. In 1954, while studying physics at the University of Naples, and living in a boarding school of nuns, she was asked to be ''Miss di Tappa'' ("Stage Miss"), who presents flowers to the winner of a stage of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmondo Amati
Edmondo Amati (1920 – 2002) was an Italian film producer. He produced 55 films between 1964 and 1984, including '' Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist'' (2005), '' U-571'' (2000), ''Golden Balls'' (1993), ''Cannibals in the Streets'' (1980), '' L'ultimo squalo'' (1980), ''Holocaust 2000'' (1978), ''Strange Shadows in an Empty Room'' (1976), '' L'anticristo'' (1974), '' Romanzo popolare'' (1974), '' Polvere di stelle'' (1973), '' Il Consigliori'' (1973), ''Sette scialli di seta gialla'' (1972) and ''In nome del popolo italiano (1971). Selected filmography * ''Two Mafiamen in the Far West'' (1964) * '' Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary'' (1965) * '' Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury'' (1965) * ''For a Few Extra Dollars'' (1966) * ''Dirty Heroes'' (1967) * ''Master Stroke'' (1967) * ''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie'' (1974) * '' Scandal in the Family'' (1975) * ''Four of the Apocalypse'' (1975) * ''Holocaust 2000 ''Holocaust 2000'' (also released as ''The Chosen'' and ''Rain of Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Martín (actress)
María Martín (14 July 1923 – 10 June 2014) was a Spanish actress. After making her screen debut in 1943, Martín appeared in around eighty films during her career including ''Dawn of America'' (1951) and ''Bilbao'' (1978.) She was occasionally credited as "Mary Martin" in English-speaking films. Martín died in Barcelona on 10 June 2014, at the age of 90. Selected filmography * '' Cristina Guzmán'' (1943) * '' A Shadow at the Window'' (1944) * '' Spanish Serenade '' (1947) * ''The Holy Queen'' (1947) * '' In a Corner of Spain'' (1949) * '' Hand of Death'' (1949) * '' They Always Return at Dawn'' (1949) * '' Captain Demonio'' (1950) * ''Dawn of America'' (1951) * '' Journey to Italy'' (1954) * ''High Fashion'' (1954) * ''Action Stations'' (1956) * '' Flame Over Vietnam'' (1957) * ''The Girl of San Pietro Square'' (1958) * ''The Sailor with Golden Fists'' (1968) * ''La banda de los tres crisantemos'' (1970) * ''Un par de asesinos'' (1970) * ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
