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Toto Vs. The Four
''Totò contro i quattro'', internationally released as ''Toto vs. the Four'', is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. Despite its title, it was not a true fusion between Totò and the four, but the film consists in interwoven episodies in which Totò makes pair from time to time with one of them. It was defined as a "winningly funny police farce". Plot At the Commissioner Antonio is stolen the car during a night. He needs to find her first address four cases of thievery in the city of Rome. The defendants are Peppino De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Nino Taranto and Erminio Macario. Thanks to the stories these four funny characters at the end Antonio, moreover, by disguising woman, manages to capture the thieves in an area of Villa Borghese. Cast *Totò: Police Commissioner Antonio Saracino *Peppino De Filippo: Cav. Alfredo Fiore *Aldo Fabrizi: Don Amilcare *Nino Taranto: Giuseppe Mastrillo *Erminio Macario: Colonel La Matta *Ugo d'Alessio: Di Sabato *Carlo delle Piane: P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Vanzina
Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina (19 January 1917 – 13 March 1988), was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Two of his films, ''Un giorno in pretura'' (1954) and ''Febbre da cavallo'' (1976), were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Abandonment (film), Abandonment'' (1940) * ''In High Places (1943 film), In High Places'' (1943) * ''Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) * ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * ''Black Eagle (1946 film), Black Eagle'' (1946) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''The Captain's Daughter (1947 film), The Captain's Daughter'' (1947) * ''Fear and Sand'' (1948) * ''The Wolf of the Sila'' (1949) * ''Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) * ''A Night of Fame'' (1949) * ''A Dog's Life (1950 film), A Dog's Life'' (with Mario Monicelli, 1950) * ''The Knight Has Arrived!'' (with Mario Monicelli, 1950) * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) * ''The E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Carloni
Pietro Carloni (28 October 1896 – 3 August 1968) was an Italian stage and film actor. Life and career Born in Taurisano, Lecce into a family of actors, Carloni debuted on stage at young age in the theatrical company held by Ernesto Murolo. In 1921 he met on stage Titina De Filippo, whom he married one year later and with whom he started a long professional association, appearing in almost all her stage works. Carloni was also active in films and in television miniseries, mainly cast in character roles. His siblings Ester, Maria, Adelina and Ettore were fellow actors. His sister Adelina (or Adele) Carloni married his wife Titina's brother Peppino De Filippo. Well-known actor Eduardo De Filippo was another of his wife's siblings. Partial filmography * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Il presidente del tribunale (uncredited) * ''Side Street Story'' (1950) - Un soldato americano * ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) * '' Cops and Robbers'' (1951) - The Police Commissioner * ''La macchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Police Comedy Films
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Police Detective Films
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Italian Comedy Films
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Films Directed By Stefano Vanzina
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] |
1963 Films
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic ''Cleopatra'' and two films with all-star casts, '' How the West Was Won'' and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 9 – Joseph Vogel resigns as president of MGM and is replaced by Robert O'Brien. * February 20 – The classic epic western '' How the West Was Won'' premieres in the United States. It is an instant success with both audiences and critics and becomes the biggest moneymaker for MGM since '' Ben-Hur''. * June 12 – ''Cleopatra'', starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. ''Cleopatra'' marked the only instance that a film would be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiat 600
The Fiat 600 ( it, Seicento, ) is a rear-engine, water-cooled city car, manufactured and marketed by Fiat Automobiles, Fiat from 1955 to 1969 — offered in two-door fastback sedan and four-door Multipla mini MPV body styles. Measuring only long, its all-new design was the first unibody and rear engine, rear-engined Fiat, and was priced the equivalent of about €6,700 or US$7300 in today's money (590,000 Italian lira, lire then). The total number produced from 1955 to 1969 at the Mirafiori plant in Turin was 2,695,197. The 1955 Fiat 600 formed the blueprint for the 2nd generation Fiat 500, "Nuova" (New) 500, launched two years later – which was even smaller, at and, although rounder, largely copied the 600s layout and shape. Later, the 600 also formed the platform for the larger 850 saloon, launched in 1964, which coexisted with the 600 in Fiats line-up for five years, until the 600 was cancelled. During the 1950s, '60s, '70s and '80s, many units were built in coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariano Laurenti
Mariano Laurenti (15 April 1929 – 6 January 2022) was an Italian film director and actor. Career He started as a script supervisor and later became an assistant director for, among others, Mauro Bolognini and Stefano Vanzina. He directed 50 films between 1966 and 1999, being mainly active in the "commedia sexy all'italiana" genre. Laurenti died in Gubbio on 6 January 2022, at the age of 92. Selected filmography * ''Il vostro super agente Flit'' (1966) * '' Zingara'' (1969) * '' Satiricosissimo'' (1970) * ''I due maghi del pallone'' (1970) * ''Ubalda, All Naked and Warm'' (1972) * '' Naughty Nun'' (1972) * '' Il figlioccio del padrino'' (1973) * '' Il vizio di famiglia'' (1975) * ''L'affittacamere'' (1976) * ''Classe mista'' (1976) * ''The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High'' (1977) * ''La compagna di banco'' (1977) * ''Per amore di Poppea'' (1977) * ''La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti'' (1978) * ''How to Seduce Your Teacher'' (1979) * '' L'infermiera di notte'' (1979) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu
Wu Pak Chiu (Pinyin: wǔ bó jiù; Yale Cantonese: ng5 ba3 jau6) (ca. 1913 – March 31, 1974), was a prominent Chinese tenor who sang in Europe under the name of Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu. Wu Pak Chiu was born in Guangzhou, China, and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1937 where he studied voice under Professor Lu Cha Zhi. During the Sino-Japanese War he earned fame for his singing of the anthem 'Defend China' by Ho An-Tung. In December 1946, he left China and enrolled as a fourth year student at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He graduated in 1948 at the top of his class. During that period he also studied as a private student with Beniamino Gigli. In 1952 he sang in concert with Gigli and his daughter Rina Gigli at Sezze Romano. Gigli also attended Wu Pak Chiu's solo concert in Rome at the Sala Borromini on June 29, 1955. Following his performance as the tenor soloist in Bartok's ''Cantata profana'' at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1954, he was invi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Terzo
Nino Terzo (22 May 1923 – 8 May 2005) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Palermo as Antonino Terzo, he worked intensively in the avanspettacolo and revue theater, entering the stage companies of Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Franco and Ciccio, Domenico Modugno, among others. Terzo was also active as a singer, appearing in several operettas. Terzo made his film debut in 1962, and he soon established himself as one of the most active character actors in the Italian comedy cinema, usually playing, with small variations, the character that made him famous in avanspettacolo, i.e. a man with extremely slow reflexes and a huge speech impediment, which does not allow him to speak before he loudly inhaled and exhaled. He retired in 1992 for health reasons. Selected filmography *''Colpo gobbo all'italiana'' (1962) - Maggiola *''I due della legione'' (1962) - Sergeant Tresport *''Le massaggiatrici'' (1962) - Brigadiere Calascione *'' The Four Monks'' (1962) - Massaro Caloger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Orfei
Moira Orfei (; born Miranda Orfei; 21 December 1931 – 15 November 2015) was an Italian circus performer, actress and television personality of remote Romani origins. Moira was also considered the queen of the Italian circus, one stage name being "Moira of the Elephants". Cult movie fans know her for the many sword-and-sandal (peplum) films she starred in. Biography Raised in a family who owned the circus company ''Circus Orfei'', Moira became the symbol of circus in Italy and attained international fame. The ''Circus Moira Orfei'' itself was founded in 1960. She was photographed in various scenes as a rider, trapeze artist, acrobat, dominatrice of elephants and trainer of doves. Her excessively garish image mirrors her eccentric and exuberant personality. It was Dino De Laurentiis who suggested that she change her name from Miranda to Moira. From then on, her face became an effigy of unchanging characteristics: heavy make-up with eyes coated with eyeliner, bright lipstick, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
