Sandro Continenza (13 July 1920 – 21 November 1996) was an Italian
screenwriter.
The New York Times
/ref> He wrote for 142 films between 1949 and 1982. He was born in Rome
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, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''Toto Looks for a Wife
''Toto Looks for a Wife'' (Italian: ''Totò cerca moglie'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Ave Ninchi and Marisa Merlini.Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 20 ...
'' (1950)
* '' Appointment for Murder'' (1951)
* ''The Dream of Zorro
''The Dream of Zorro'' (Italian: ''Il Sogno di Zorro'') is a 1952 Italian comedy adventure film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Walter Chiari, Delia Scala and Vittorio Gassman. The future star Sophia Loren had a minor role in the film.
...
'' (1952)
* ''Neapolitan Turk
''Neapolitan Turk'' ( it, Un turco napoletano) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.
Plot
The film is based on a play by the famous Neapolitan writer Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo and Peppino De Fi ...
'' (1953)
* '' If You Won a Hundred Million'' (1953)
* '' Funniest Show on Earth'' (1953)
* ''A Day in Court
''A Day in Court'' (Italian: ''Un giorno in pretura'') is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Steno and starring Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Sophia Loren, and Alberto Sordi. The film is an anthology, consisting of a day's cases b ...
'' (1954)
* ''The Miller's Beautiful Wife
''The Miller's Beautiful Wife'' ( it, La bella mugnaia) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini, that stars Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren and Vittorio de Sica. A remake of the director's 1934 film, 'Il capello a tre punt ...
'' (1955)
* '' Donatella'' (1956)
* ''Lucky to Be a Woman
''Lucky to Be a Woman'' ( it, La fortuna di essere donna and also known as ''What a Woman!'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni.
Plot
A photographe ...
'' (1956)
* ''Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina
''Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy'' (originally ''Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina'') is an Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque in 1956. It stars the comedy duo of Totò and Peppino De Filippo. The film also stars the popular sin ...
'' (1956)
* ''I giorni più belli
''I giorni più belli'' ( ''The Best Days'' or ''The Most Beautiful Days'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Franco Interlenghi.
Cast
* Franco Interlenghi
* Vittorio De Sica
* Mario Carotenuto
* Valeria Mori ...
'' (1956)
* '' A Woman Alone'' (1956)
* ''Gerusalemme liberata
''Jerusalem Delivered'', also known as ''The Liberation of Jerusalem'' ( it, La Gerusalemme liberata ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade i ...
'' (1956)
* ''The Day the Sky Exploded
''The Day the Sky Exploded'' ( it, La morte viene dallo spazio, lit=Death Comes From Space), released in the United Kingdom as ''Death Comes From Outer Space'', is a 1958 science fiction film. It is known as the first Italian science fiction fil ...
'' (1958)
* ''The Italians They Are Crazy
''The Italians They Are Crazy'' (Italian: ''Gli italiani sono matti'') is a 1958 Italian-German comedy film directed by Duilio Coletti and Luis María Delgado and starring Victor McLaglen, Folco Lulli and Gabriella Pallotta
Gabriella Pallotta ( ...
'' (1958)
* ''Il vedovo
''Il Vedovo'' (The Widower) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.
Plot
Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) teete ...
'' (1959)
* '' Il Mattatore'' (1960)
* ''Hercules in the Haunted World
''Hercules in the Haunted World'' (Italian: ''Ercole al centro della terra'', lit. "Hercules at the Center of the Earth") is a 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal film directed by Mario Bava. British bodybuilder Reg Park plays Hercules while British a ...
'' (1961)
* ''Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis
''Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis'' ( it, Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide, lit=Hercules at the Conquest of Atlantis) is a 1961 film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Reg Park in his film debut as Ercole/Hercules. It was origina ...
'' (1961)
* ''Gladiators 7
''Gladiators 7'' is a 1962 film directed by Pedro Lazaga. The film has several elements from Akira Kurosawa's film ''The Seven Samurai''.
Plot
A Greek gladiator seeks revenge for the murder of his father and finds his lover captured by an evil t ...
'' (1962)
* ''I cuori infranti
''I cuori infranti'' ( ''The Broken Hearts'') is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio Caprioli and Gianni Puccini. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Cast
Segmen ...
'' (1963)
* '' Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury'' (1965)
* '' Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary'' (1965)
* ''Lo scippo
''Lo scippo (the snatching)'' is a 1965 Italian film. It marked the directorial debut of Nando Cicero.
Plot
Speranza, a female company cashier, organizes with two young men with a motorcycle a snatching for stage a steal with money of customer ...
'' (1965)
* '' Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace'' (1965)
* '' Heroes of the West'' (1965)
* ''Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger
''Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger '' or ''Due mafiosi contro Goldginger'' is a 1965 Eurospy comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. It is a spoof of the 1964 James Bond film, '' Goldfinger''. It was pick ...
'' (1965)
* ''Pleasant Nights
''Pleasant Nights'' ( it, Le piacevoli notti) is a 1966 Italian comedy film directed by Armando Crispino and Luciano Lucignani and starring Vittorio Gassman and Gina Lollobrigida.
Plot
Three comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
Cast
* Vittor ...
'' (1966)
* ''Master Stroke
''Master Stroke'' ( it, Colpo maestro al servizio di Sua Maestà britannica) is a 1967 Italian crime film directed by Michele Lupo and starring Richard Harrison.
Cast
* Richard Harrison - Arthur Lang
* Adolfo Celi - Mr. Bernard
* Margaret L ...
'' (1967)
* ''Alibi
An alibi (from the Latin, '' alibī'', meaning "somewhere else") is a statement by a person, who is a possible perpetrator of a crime, of where they were at the time a particular offence was committed, which is somewhere other than where the crim ...
'' (1969)
* '' The Cop'' (1970)
* ''The Things of Life
''The Things of Life'' (french: Les Choses de la vie) is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel '' Intersection'' by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre (Michel Piccoli ...
'' (1970)
* ''Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
''Seven Murders for Scotland Yard'' (Spanish:''Jack el destripador de Londres'' / ''Jack the Ripper of London'') is a 1971 Italian-Spanish giallo film directed by José Luis Madrid and starring Paul Naschy, Patricia Loran and Renzo Marignano. Na ...
'' (1971)
* ''Il domestico
''Il domestico'' is a 1974 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Cast
* Lando Buzzanca as Rosario Cabaduni, called 'Sasa ...
'' (1974)
* ''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie'' is a career-spanning five-disc box set of the band White Zombie. It is named after the 1974 Italian horror film of the same name.
Contents
The set contains a remaster of every album and E.P. released officially b ...
'' (1974)
References
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1920 births
1996 deaths
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Writers from Rome
Italian male screenwriters
20th-century Italian male writers
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