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Vacation With A Gangster
''Vacation with a Gangster'' (Italian: ''Vacanze col gangster'') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala and Terence Hill. The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini. Plot A man sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Monteforte prison, while working on creating toys for children, puts a note in a papier-mâché horse in which he claims to have been unjustly imprisoned and appeals to anyone who reads the message to get him out of captivity. The horse, after alternating events, is collected in pieces in the hands of five schoolmates, Gianni, Andrea, Mario, Ugo and Nino, who find the note written by the prisoner. They then plan an escape and plan to all be promoted to go on vacation to Monteforte. Summer arrives, and the boys anonymously send a cake to the prisoner, the convict n. 5823 with a ticket but the prisoner is in the cell together with no. 6211, a dangerous criminal, with whom he shares the cake and who, unfortu ...
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Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''. Biography Risi was born in Milan. He had an older brother, Fernando, a cinematographer, and a younger brother, Nelo Risi, Nelo (1920–2015), a director and writer. At the age of twelve, Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family.Italian director Dino Risi dies
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He studied medicine but refused to become a psychiatrist, as his parents wished Risi started his career in Film, cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films ...
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Lamberto Maggiorani
Lamberto Maggiorani (28 August 1909 – 22 April 1983) was an Italian actor remembered for his portrayal of Antonio Ricci in the 1948 Vittorio De Sica film ''Bicycle Thieves''. He was a factory worker (he worked as a turner) and non-professional actor at the time he was cast in this film. He earned 600,000 lire ($1,000 US) for his performance, enabling him to buy new furniture and treat his family to a vacation; but when he returned to the factory he was laid off because business was slackening and management felt it would be fairer to terminate him instead of other impoverished co-workers since he was perceived to have "made millions" as a movie star. He found occasional work as a bricklayer, but continued to try to get roles in movies, with little success; even de Sica was reluctant to employ him as anything other than an extra. Pier Paolo Pasolini gave him a bit part in the film ''Mamma Roma'' (1962) due to his iconic status in Italian cinema. Cesare Zavattini Cesare Za ...
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Lux Film Films
The lux (symbol: lx) is the unit of illuminance, or luminous flux per unit area, in the International System of Units (SI). It is equal to one lumen per square metre. In photometry, this is used as a measure of the intensity, as perceived by the human eye, of light that hits or passes through a surface. It is analogous to the radiometric unit watt per square metre, but with the power at each wavelength weighted according to the luminosity function, a standardized model of human visual brightness perception. In English, "lux" is used as both the singular and plural form. The word is derived from the Latin word for "light", lux. Explanation Illuminance Illuminance is a measure of how much luminous flux is spread over a given area. One can think of luminous flux (with the unit lumen) as a measure of the total "amount" of visible light present, and the illuminance as a measure of the intensity of illumination on a surface. A given amount of light will illuminate a surface more d ...
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Films Scored By Mario Nascimbene
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 ...
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Films Directed By Dino Risi
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 ...
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1950s Italian-language Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his h ...
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Italian Comedy Films
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1952 Comedy Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his ...
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1952 Films
The year 1952 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1952 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International Events *January 10 – Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, '' The Greatest Show on Earth'', is premièred at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. *March 27 – The MGM musical '' Singin' in the Rain'' premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. *May 26 – Decision reached in Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson determining that certain provisions of the New York Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious," was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. *September 19 – While Charlie Chaplin is at sea on his way to the United Kingdom, the United States Attorney-General, James P. ...
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Bianca Doria
Bianca Doria (22 September 1915 – 2 February 1985) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than forty films during her career. She appeared in the 1963 peplum ''Hercules Against the Mongols''.Hughes, Howard. ''Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult''. I.B. Tauris, 2011. p. 35. She was married to director Alberto Doria. Life and career Born in San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Doria studied music, painting and sculpture since young age. She made her critical acclaimed film debut in '' Piccolo hotel'', which premiered at the 1939 Venice International Film Festival and got reviews in which she was paired to Katharine Hepburn. Following the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's government in 1943 she and her husband went to work in the film industry of the pro-German Italian Social Republic in Venice, for which she was criticized after the Second World War ended. In the following years she was mainly cast in character roles, and occasionally worked on stage and ...
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Anna Arena
Anna Arena (June 21, 1919 – August 19, 1974) was an Italian film actress.Smith p.116 Selected filmography * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''Vacation with a Gangster'' (1951) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * ''Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * ''The Dream of Zorro'' (1952) * ''The Ship of Condemned Women'' (1953) * '' La lupa'' (1953) * ''Orphan of the Ghetto'' (1954) * ''It Takes Two to Sin in Love'' (1954) * '' The Law'' (1959) * ''Il bell'Antonio'' (1960) * ''Queen of the Seas'' (1961) * ''Hercules Against Rome ''Hercules Against Rome'' ( it, Ercole contro Roma) is a 1964 '' peplum'' film directed by Piero Pierotti. Plot A childhood friend enlists Hercules to protect the Roman Emperor Gordiano, who is in danger from his own mutinous Praetorian Guards. ...'' (1964) References Bibliography * Gary Allen Smith. ''Epic Films: Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies''. McFarland, 2004. External links * 1919 births 1974 deaths Ita ...
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Dina Perbellini
Dina Perbellini (14 January, 1901–2 April, 1984) was an Italian actress. She appeared in over sixty films and television series between 1934 and 1969 and was also a leading voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy. She made her film debut in the 1934 school comedy ''Seconda B''.Reich & Garofalo p.154 Partial filmography * ''Seconda B'' (1934) - Professorina Vanni * '' Three Cornered Hat'' (1935) - Donna Dolores, moglie del governatore * ''Le scarpe al sole'' (1935) - La moglie di Bepo * ''Ginevra degli Almieri'' (1936) * ''Amore'' (1936) - Luisa * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) - Berta * '' It Was I!'' (1937) - Signora in villeggiatura * ''The Last Days of Pompeo'' (1937) * ''Il conte di Brechard'' (1938) * ''La sposa dei re'' (1938) - La signora Clary * ''Crispino e la comare'' (1938) - La comare * ''The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) - La contessa Scoperlati * ''Il barone di Corbò'' (1939) - Didone * ''Mad Animals'' (1939) - La direttrice dell'ospedale de ...
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