''Hotel Luna, Room 34'' () is a 1946 Italian

crime In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...

- thriller-

melodrama film In film studies and criticism, melodrama may variously refer to a genre, mode, style or sensibility characterized by its emphasis on intense and exaggerated emotions and heightened dramatic situations. There is no fixed definition of the term an ...

directed by

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò. His 1942 f ...

and starring Chiaretta Gelli,

Carlo Campanini Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984) was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969. Life and career Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...

and

Andrea Checchi Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was a prolific Italian film actor. Biography Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974. The son of a painter, he s ...

. It was produced by

Lux Film Lux Film was an Italian film distribution (and later production) company founded by Riccardo Gualino in 1934. Gualino was an anti-fascist businessman who had clashed with the regime of Mussolini in 1931 and had been forced into internal exile on ...

, and earned 39 million

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at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p.24

Cast

* Chiaretta Gelli as Bianca Morelli *

as Paolo Gualtieri *

as Andrea Esposito * Roberto Villa as Enrico Landi *

Arturo Bragaglia Arturo Bragaglia (7 January 1893 – 21 January 1962) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1962 deaths Italian male f ...

as Lorenzetti - the double bass player * Marcello Giorda as Martini - the impresario *

Giovanni Petrucci Giovanni "Gianni" Petrucci (born 19 July 1945) is an Italian sports director. Born in Rome, Petrucci was the president of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) for the fourth consecutive term that ended after the Games of the XXX Olymp ...

* Giovanni Dolfini * Antonio Bracci * Guido Lauri

References

Bibliography

* Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. * Hischak, Thomas S. . ''The Encyclopedia of Film Composers''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

External links

* 1946 films Italian crime drama films 1946 crime drama films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Lux Film films Italian black-and-white films 1940s melodrama films 1940s Italian films Italian-language crime drama films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub