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Umberto Lenzi
Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. A fan of film since young age, Lenzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and made his first film in 1958 which went unreleased, while his official debut happened in 1961 with ''Queen of the Seas''. Lenzi's films of the 1960s followed popular trends of the era, which led to him directing several spy and erotic thriller films. He followed in suit in the 1970s making ''giallo'' films, crime films and making the first Italian cannibal film with ''Man from the Deep River''. He continued making films up until the 1990s and later worked as a novelist writing a series of murder mysteries. Biography Early life Umberto Lenzi was born on 6 August 1931 in the Massa Marittima province of Italy. Lenzi was a film enthusiast as early as grade school. While studying law, Lenzi also created film fan clubs. Lenzi eventually put off studying law and began pursuing the techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival De Cine De Sitges
The Sitges Film Festival ( ca, Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, links=no) is an annual film festival held in Sitges, Spain, specialized in fantasy film, fantasy and horror films, of which it is considered one of the world's foremost international festivals. Established in 1968, the festival takes place every year, usually in early October. The 55th edition of the festival will be held from October 6 to 16, 2022. This year, in the 22nd edition of the Awards 15 film schools and universities around Catalonia, which have submitted a total of 32 audiovisual works, will also participate. Venues The main venue of the Sitges Film Festival is the Auditori (Auditorium), located in the Hotel Melià Sitges (in the Port d'Aiguadolç area), which has a capacity of 1,384 seats. As of 2020, other venues are: Cine El Retiro (El Retiro Cinema), Cine Prado (Prado Cinema), Brigadoon - L'escorxador (a beautiful modernista building), Tramuntana (another cinema hall in Hotel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Invincible Masked Rider
''The Invincible Masked Rider'' ( it, L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato) is a 1963 adventure film directed by Umberto Lenzi. It was based on a novel by Johnston McCulley. The film was released in the US as ''Terror of the Black Mask''.Lucanio,Patrick (1994). ''With Fire and Sword: Italian Spectacles on American Screens, 1958–1968''. Scarecrow Press It starred Pierre Brice, Daniele Vargas and Helene Chanel. Cast * Pierre Brice: Don Diego Morales * Daniele Vargas: Don Luis * Hélène Chanel: Carmencita * Massimo Serato: Don Rodrigo * Gisella Arden: Maria * Aldo Bufi Landi: Francisco * Carlo Latimer: Tabuca * Nerio Bernardi: Don Gomez * Romano Ghini: Maurilio * Tullio Altamura: Dr. Bernarinis * Guido Celano: Dr. Aguilera * Nello Pazzafini: Alonzo Release ''The Invincible Masked Rider'' was released theatrically in Italy on 29 March 1963. It received a released in the United States on July 1967. See also *List of Italian films of 1963 Following is a sortable list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orgasmo
''Orgasmo'' is a 1969 giallo film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, and Colette Descombes. It follows a wealthy American socialite who finds herself preyed upon by two nefarious young siblings who indulge her in sex, drugs, and alcohol while she vacations at an Italian villa. This film helped launch the second phase of Baker's career, during which she became a regular star in Italian productions. After its Italian premiere in February 1969, ''Orgasmo'' was released in the United States under the alternative title ''Paranoia'' later that same year. It was one of the first films to carry an X rating in the United States under the newly-established Motion Picture Association film rating system, and this fact was sensationalized for its American promotional materials. The film marked the second of four collaborations between Lenzi and actress Carroll Baker, who had previously starred in '' So Sweet... So Perverse'' (1969), and subsequently starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American former actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film ''Baby Doll'' in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Baker had other early film roles in ''Giant'' (1956) and the romantic comedy '' But Not for Me'' (1959). In 1961, she appeared in the controversial independent film '' Something Wild'', directed by her then husband Jack Garfein, playing a traumatized rape victim. She went on to star in several critically acclaimed Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s such as ''The Big Country'' (1958), '' How the West Was Won'' (1962), and '' Cheyenne Autumn'' (1964). In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pistol For A Hundred Coffins
''Pistol for a Hundred Coffins'' ( it, Una pistola per cento bare, es, El sabor del odio (''The Taste of Hate''), also known as ''A Gun for One Hundred Graves'' and ''Vengeance'') is a 1968 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Peter Lee Lawrence. Cast See also * List of Italian films of 1968 * List of Spanish films of 1968 A list of films produced in Spain in 1968 (see 1968 in film). 1968 References Footnotes Sources * External links Spanish films of 1968at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanish Films Of 1968 1968 Spanish Films ... References External links * 1968 films 1960s Italian-language films Spanish Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1968 Western (genre) films Films directed by Umberto Lenzi 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of The Damned (film)
''Battle of the Commandos'' (also known as ''Legion of the Damned'') is a European Macaroni-War film directed in 1969 by Umberto Lenzi. The movie was a co-production between Italy (where it was released as ''La legione dei dannati''), West Germany (where is known with the title ''Die zum Teufel gehen'') and Spain (where is known as ''La brigada de los condenados''). Cast * Jack Palance: Col. Charley MacPherson * Curd Jürgens: Maj. Gen. von Reilow * Thomas Hunter: Capt. Kevin Burke * Robert Hundar: Pvt. Raymond Stone * Wolfgang Preiss: Col. Ackerman * Helmuth Schneider: Pvt. Sam Schrier * Guido Lollobrigida: Pvt. Tom Carlyle * Aldo Sambrell: Sgt. Karim Habinda * Diana Lorys: Janine * Franco Fantasia: Schiwers, the French Maquis leader * Gérard Herter: Lt. Hapke * Mirko Ellis: Capt. Adler * Bruno Corazzari Bruno Corazzari (born 30 December 1940) is an Italian film, television and stage actor. Life and career Born in Castellarano, Reggio Emilia, Corazzari started his ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Commandos
''Desert Commandos'' (Italian: ''Attentato ai tre grandi'') is a 1967 French/Italian/West German international co-production war film set during World War II in Morocco where it was filmed. The Italian title (''Attack on the Big Three'') refers to a German commando group with a mission to assassinate Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle at the Casablanca Conference. The film is a character-based drama that focuses on the German soldiers' various drives and conflicts during encounters with Tuareg nomads, and French and American soldiers. Plot The grief-stricken Captain Fritz Schoeller has assisted his terminally ill wife with her wishes for euthanasia. A party of men whisk him from his wife's funeral, not for arrest, but to be briefed on a special mission he will lead. The Captain, Lt. Roland Wolf, Sgt. Erich Huber, Corporal Hans Ludwig and Private Willy Mainz are all skilled in commando tactics and have excellent English language skills. They are dressed in British Commando unifo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriminal (film)
''Kriminal'' is a 1966 superhero film directed and written by Umberto Lenzi. The film is about a thief and murderer called Kriminal (Glenn Saxson) who escapes from a prison and is chased after by Inspector Milton ( Andrea Bosic). It was followed by a sequel, '' Il marchio di Kriminal'' ( The Mark of Kriminal). Cast * Glenn Saxson as Kriminal * Andrea Bosic as Insp. Milton *Helga Liné as Inge - Trude * as Lady Gold *Ivano Staccioli as Alex Lafont Production In August 1964, the ''fumetti neri'' series '' Kriminal'' began publication. The comics often contained themes of sex and violence, which included the title character seducing scantily-dressed women, then strangling or stabbing them to conceal his identity. Director Umberto Lenzi stated that he initially wanted to make a comic book-inspired film with an adaptation of ''Diabolik''. Lenzi found himself unable to get the rights to ''Diabolik'', which had purchased by Dino De Laurentiis. Lenzi then attempted an adaptation of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumetti Neri
''Fumetti neri'' (Italian for "black comics") is a subgenre of Italian comics, born in Italy with the creation of the ''Diabolik'' character (1962). Overview The "Fumetti neri" name comes from "cronaca nera", the Italian name for crime news. Among the inspirations of the genre were the film noir, the French ''feuilleton'' and Italian horror cinema. In a local market dominated by comics devoted to a young audience, the immediate commercial success of ''Diabolik'' revealed a niche of adult readers interested in adult and sometimes exploitive themes characterized by violence and sex references.Simone Castaldi. ''Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s''. University Press of Mississippi, 2010. . The heroes of ''fumetti neri'' were more anti-hero or villain than traditional heroes, and Diabolik himself was very loosely based on the French'' Fantômas'' character. The subsequent main characters in these comics were all inspired by Diabolik and often had a K in thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spy Who Loved Flowers
''The Spy Who Loved Flowers'' ( it, Le spie amano i fiori, also known as ''Hell Cats'') is a 1966 Italian/Spanish co-production science fiction-Eurospy film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi (here credited as "Hubert Humphry"). Set in Paris, Geneva and Athens, it is the sequel to '' Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (1965). It starred Roger Browne and Yoko Tani. Premise British agent Martin Stevens is assigned to assassinate three foreign operatives who collaborated with a deceased scientist whose weaponized invention the agent himself has recovered. Halfway through the mission, Stevens discovers that the enemy has been targeting him instead and knows his every move, thus developing suspicion that there is a traitor in their midst. Cast * Roger Browne as Martin Stevens * Emma Danieli as Geneviève * Daniele Vargas as Harriman * Marino Masé as Dick * Yoko Tani as Mei Lang * Sal Borgese as Il Sordo, Harriman's henchman * Fernando Cebrián as Ahmed Murad * Tullio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Seven Calling Cairo
''Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (Italian: ''Superseven chiama Cairo'') is a 1965 Italian Eurospy film directed by Umberto Lenzi and adapted from his own novel of the same name written under the pseudonym "H. Humbert". It stars Roger Browne as the titular secret agent opposite Fabienne Dali, Massimo Serato, and Rosalba Neri. Shot mostly in Egypt, the film is heavily inspired by the early James Bond films starring Sean Connery. It is followed by ''The Spy Who Loved Flowers'' in which Browne reprises his role as Martin Stevens, and Lenzi returns to write and direct the film. Premise Martin Stevens - a British agent known by his codename "Superseven" - is sent to recover a modified radioactive metal disguised as a camera lens, stolen and sold to an unaware civilian by mistake. The trail leads him to Cairo in pursuit of the camera where he learns that Russian spies are also after the same device in the hopes of putting the western powers at a disadvantage while per business as usual, Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Exterminate
Operation or Operations may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory * ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products * ''The Operation'' (film), a 1973 British television film * ''The Operation'' (1990), a crime, drama, TV movie starring Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman, and Jason Beghe * ''The Operation'' (1992–1998), a reality television series from TLC * The Operation M.D., formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band * "Operation", a song by Relient K from ''The Creepy EP'', 2001 Business * Business operations, the harvesting of value from assets owned by a business * Manufacturing operations, operation of a facility * Operations management, an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production Military and law enforcement * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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