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Tragic Ballad (film)
''Tragic Ballad'' (Italian: ''Ballata tragica'') is a 1954 Italian crime musical melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Teddy Reno, Beniamino Maggio and Nando Bruno.Chiti & Poppi p.54 The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori. Cast * Teddy Reno as Stefano Accardi * Beniamino Maggio as Giovanni Barone * Nando Bruno as Commisario * Marisa Allasio as Maria Rota * Tina Pica as Moglie del nostromo * Barbara Shelley as Betty Mason * Leda Gloria as Signora Barone * Marc Lawrence as Felipe Alvaro * Enzo Petito as Nostromo * Amedeo Girardi as Paolo Accardi * Giulio Calì as Marinaio genovese * Rosalia Maggio as cameriera casa Accardi * Giacomo Furia as Vigile urbano * Michele Malaspina as armatore amico Accardi * Cesare Fantoni as Ispettore polizia * Pasquale De Filippo as Aiutante commissario * Natale Cirino Natale Cirino (5 February 1894 – 29 May 1962) was an Italian stage and film actor. Life and career Born in Cata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Capuano
Luigi Capuano (13 July 1904 – 20 October 1979) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971. Selected filmography * ''Vertigine d'amore'' (1949) * ''Flying Squadron (film), Flying Squadron'' (1949) * ''Stormbound'' (1950) * ''The Lovers of Ravello'' (1951) * ''Gli innocenti pagano'' (1951) * ''Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * ''Tragic Ballad (film), Tragic Ballad'' (1954) * ''Letter from Naples'' (1954) * ''New Moon (1955 film), New Moon'' (1955) * ''Mermaid of Naples'' (1956) * ''The Knight of the Black Sword'' (1956) * ''Serenata a Maria'' (1957) * ''Il Conte di Matera'' (1957) * ''World of Miracles'' (1959) * ''Queen of the Pirates'' (1960) * ''Terror of the Red Mask'' (1960) * ''Sword in the Shadows'' (1961) * ''The Vengeance of Ursus'' (1961) * ''Revenge of the Conquered'' (1961) * ''Tiger of the Seven Seas'' (1962) * ''The Executioner of Venice'' (1963) * ''Zorro and the Three Musketeers'' (1963) * ''The Lion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Montori
Alfredo Montori (1893-1969) was an Italian art director. He designed the sets for more than a hundred films.Smith p.116 Selected filmography * '' My Little One'' (1933) * '' Lady of Paradise'' (1934) * '' The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) * ''A Lady Did It'' (1938) * ''They've Kidnapped a Man'' (1938) * '' The Knight of San Marco'' (1939) * '' The Faceless Voice'' (1939) * ''The Hussar Captain'' (1940) * '' A Husband for the Month of April'' (1941) * ''The Two Tigers'' (1941) * ''Music on the Run'' (1943) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) * '' The Cliff of Sin'' (1950) * ''Beauties on Bicycles'' (1951) * '' Without a Flag'' (1951) * '' Tragic Serenade'' (1951) * '' The Black Captain'' (1951) * ''Mamma Mia, What an Impression!'' (1951) * ''Abracadabra'' (1952) * ''Naples Sings'' (1953) * '' Tragic Ballad'' (1954) * ''Letter from Naples'' (1954) * '' It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' (1954) * ''Goodbye Naples'' (1955) * ''The Knight of the Black Sword ''The Knight of the Black Sword'' (Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Crime Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Luigi Capuano
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 sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Italian-language Films
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1954 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Crime Drama Films
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1954 Films
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natale Cirino
Natale Cirino (5 February 1894 – 29 May 1962) was an Italian stage and film actor. Life and career Born in Catania, Cirino started his career entering the most important theatrical companies active in Sicily (including the ones held by Turi Pandolfini, Michele Abruzzo, Rosina Anselmi and Giovanni Grasso) before forming his own stage company in 1928. In 1943 he made his film debut in the Pino Mercanti's historical drama ''All'ombra della gloria'', and from then he started an intense career as a character actor, with some sporadic main roles. He was married to stage actress Rita Alaimo (1894-1964). Selected filmography * ''For the Love of Mariastella'' (1946) * ''Appointment for Murder'' (1951) * '' The Crossroads'' (1951) * '' Carcerato'' (1951) * ''Lorenzaccio'' (1951) * ''Buon viaggio pover'uomo'' (1951) * ''Ergastolo'' (1952) * ''Saluti e baci'' (1953) * ''It Happened at the Police Station'' (1954) * ''Letter from Naples'' (1954) * '' Tragic Ballad'' (1954) * '' Maddalena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Fantoni
Cesare Fantoni (1 January 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937. He made his debut film appearance in '' Doctor Antonio''. He then appeared in more than 70 films between 1939 and 1962. Fantoni made light appearances later in his career as Don Ignazio in the films '' The Overtaxed'' and '' Letto a tre piazze''. Fantoni was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in the Italian market. (in Italian) He dubbed the voices of |
Michele Malaspina
Michele Malaspina (16 August 1908 – 13 January 1979) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Bolzaneto, Genoa, the son of two shopkeepers, since childhood Malaspina has a passion for theater and was an actor in a company of amateur actors. At 18 years old, he entered the stage company of Alfredo Sainati, and from then he was part of the major stage companies of the time, notably the ones held by Emma Gramatica, Ermete Zacconi, Dina Galli, Ruggero Ruggeri and Camillo Pilotto. He made his film debut in the early 1930s, and during his long career he was mainly cast in supporting roles, being often used for playing high society characters. He worked for a long time at EIAR as an actor of radio-plays, and was also active as a dubber. Selected filmography * ''The Knight of San Marco'' (1939) * ''Lucky Night'' (1941) * '' His Young Wife'' (1945) * ''Immigrants'' (1948) * '' Heaven over the Marshes'' (1949) * ''A Dog's Life'' (1950) * ''Last Meeting'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Furia
Giacomo Matteo Furia (2 January 1925 – 5 June 2015) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998. Life and career Born in Arienzo, near Caserta, Furia started his acting career thanks to Eduardo De Filippo, he had met through an after-school summer job; he made his professional debut on stage in 1945, in De Filippo's "Napoli milionaria". He made his film debut three years later, in Mario Mattoli's '' Assunta Spina''; mainly cast in character roles, he was often a sidekick of Totò, notably landing a major role in ''The Band of Honest Men''. His credits include films directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Francesco Rosi. In 1997 Furia released an autobiography written in collaboration with Michele Avitabile, ''Le maggiorate, il principe e l'ultimo degli onesti''. He died on 5 June 2015, aged 90. Selected filmography * '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Tittariello * ''The Bride Can't Wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
