
Birthday:
03-17-1908
Deathday:
01-01-1976 (67 years)
Birthplace:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Anzio
Adaptation
event1968 star_border 5.7
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American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
Due lacrime
Writer
event1954
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Italian made romanic drama.
Angels of Darkness
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 3
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When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Mid-Century Loves
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 4.9
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Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 6.5
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The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
A Stranger in Town
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 4.8
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Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter of Mexican soldiers by a gang led by Aguila. The Stranger threatens Aguila to denounce him if he does not accept to let him take part in the theft of a shipment of gold. The plan is a success but when The Stranger claims his due, he gets a good beating instead. However The Stranger manages to escape with the gold. The bandits, who want his skin, pursue him. But The Stranger is not the kind to get caught so easily...
The Glorious Avenger
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 6.5
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Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
The Stranger Returns
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 5.9
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The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Possibility Zero
Writer
event1969 star_border 6
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Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.
In the Name of the Law
Story
event1949 star_border 7
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A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
Desert Warrior
Screenplay
event1957 star_border 5
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Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and raid without knowing that one of them is Fatima, daughter of Ibrahim, who poses as a singer of the harem. Said, dazzled by the beauty of the girl, released. But soon after, Fatima, who also doesn´t know the origin of the robber, sees him again, and among them born a strong attraction.
Son of the Hunchback
Screenplay
event1952
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20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge.
Jealousy
Screenplay
event1953 star_border 6.1
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A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.
The Merchant of Venice
Writer
event1953 star_border 5
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A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
In the Eddy of Sin
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 6
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After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
Sugar Colt
Story
event1967 star_border 6
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In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
Akiko
Original Story
event1961 star_border 6.5
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The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there.
An Angel for Satan
Screenplay
event1966 star_border 6.3
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At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
10 love songs to save
Writer
event1953 star_border 5
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The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.
2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
Screenplay
event1964 star_border 4.9
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A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
Il bivio
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 6
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After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
The Eye of the Needle
Screenplay
event1963 star_border 7.2
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Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Jailbirds
Story
event1954 star_border 4
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Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison.
Commando
Writer
event1962 star_border 6.3
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A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Misunderstood
Co-Writer
event1967 star_border 7.5
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Andrew's brave front convinces his father that he is unaffected by his mother's death. Playmate and protector of his little brother Miles, he is often blamed when mischief goes wrong. Only when tragedy strikes does his father recognize Andrew's true qualities.
Ursus
Story
event1961 star_border 4.8
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Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea.
The City Defends Itself
Co-Writer
event1951 star_border 6
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Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
Tragico ritorno
Screenplay
event1952 star_border 7
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Marco, returning home to Livorno after having spent eight years in prison, finds his wife Giovanna married to another man, who the son believes is his real father. He decides to commit suicide but then he meets Elisa, who dissuades him and he begins to live with her and her father.
Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
Writer
event1963 star_border 4.5
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Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.
1870
Screenplay
event1972 star_border 6.4
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Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.
A White Dress for Marialé
Writer
event1972 star_border 6.1
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When Marialé is a little girl, she sees her father murder the two lovers and then shoot himself in the head. About 30 years later, she lives in a mansion and has mental problems. She invites a number of friends and one by one they become murdered.
Un alibi per morire
Screenplay
event1962
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Giallo from 1962
Carmen di Trastevere
Story
event1962 star_border 9
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Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relationship in progress and continues to use the woman in his shady businesses.
Eran trecento
Screenplay
event1952
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Set in 1857, it's the story of a band of revolutionaries fighting against the Borbones.
I Always Loved You
Screenplay
event1953
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A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.
La trovatella di Milano
Screenplay
event1955
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Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.
Sign of the Gladiator
Story
event1959 star_border 4.7
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Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
The Queen of Babylon
Story
event1954 star_border 4.5
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In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl.
Non sono piĂą guaglione
Story
event1957
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A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
The Outlaws
Screenplay
event1950 star_border 6
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Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.
I figli non si vendono
Screenplay
event1952
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I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Story
event1961 star_border 5.5
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Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot concerns Ursus' attempts to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, aided by a pretty blind slave girl. Now an evil queen, Ursus' former love throws him into a gladiatorial arena with a bull, which manages to smack the slave girl in the head and restore her eyesight before Ursus defeats it and his enemies. The bullfight is particularly well-staged, and this exciting spectacle may be the highlight of Fury's erratic screen career. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
The Loves of Salammbo
Writer
event1960 star_border 4.7
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During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where SalammbĂ´ --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Story
event1961 star_border 5.5
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Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her...
South Wind
Screenplay
event1959 star_border 8.2
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Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...
The Widow
Screenplay
event1955
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A woman falls in love with a race-car driver who two-times her for another girl.
Hypnosis
Screenplay
event1962 star_border 5.2
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Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night.
Forbidden
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 7
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Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.
A Devil Under the Pillow
Writer
event1968 star_border 2
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Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.
Seven from Thebes
Writer
event1964
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The city of Thebes has come under the cruel domination of Sparta. Diomedes and several of his friends strive to throw off the Spartan yoke even while Diomedes romances Dorida, daughter of the Theban governor who's collaborating with Sparta.
The Dollars Are Coming!
Screenplay
event1957 star_border 6.8
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A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
Run, Psycho, Run
Screenplay
event1968 star_border 2
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Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...
Dagli Appennini alle Ande
Writer
event1959 star_border 5.7
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A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.
Andalusia Express
Writer
event1956 star_border 5.7
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Three men plan a jewelry heist abroad the Andalusia express train.
The Nun of Monza
Screenplay
event1962 star_border 5
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Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
The Mine
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 1
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Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he'll have to fight over Elsa's affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community.
Against the Law
Story
event1950
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A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.
Sandokan
Screenplay (6 ep.)
event1976 star_border 7
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In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.
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