
Birthday:
02-20-1925
Deathday:
04-26-2018 (93 years)
Birthplace:
Rome, Italy
Biography
Gianfranco Parolini (20 February 1925 in Rome, Italy – 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian film director. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his films are The Sabata Trilogy, several sword and sandal films, most of the Kommissar X films and a number of Spaghetti Westerns.
He claimed to have written over 100 thriller novels before becoming an assistant to Giuseppe D'Amato.
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He claimed to have written over 100 thriller novels before becoming an assistant to Giuseppe D'Amato.
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So Darling, So Deadly
Act like Rex
event1966 star_border 6.8
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A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! A dangerous crime organization wants the device and will stop at nothing to get it, while murder and violence follow Joe and Tom to Singapore as they try to foil the evil plans.
Kill, Panther, Kill!
Act like Smoky
event1968 star_border 6.8
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Two rivals are out to recover a cache of stolen jewels. The thief who originally stole them has just gotten out of prison, however, and he is looking for his twin brother, who knows where the jewels are hidden. Complications ensue.
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Act like Gambler
event1968 star_border 5.9
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After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
The Ten Gladiators
Act like Livius Verus
event1963 star_border 4.5
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Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
Act like Mad Director
event2012 star_border 7.5
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Documentary about the Kommissar X Series.
Caligula's Slaves
Act like Senator Lucius (as John Francis Littlewords)
event1984 star_border 2.4
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Roman emperor Caligula leaves the last days of glory amidst orgies of food and sex. During a show by two nude slaves, the emperor is particularly attracted to one of them, Lysia, ignoring that she had been planted close to him with orders to murder him. Only, the young man makes her feel for him, passion and motherly love, and she'll protect him rather then fulfill her mission. Drama ensues.
The Secret of the Incas' Empire
Act like Prof. Alexis Xristopoulos (as John Francis Scott)
event1987
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Hidden somewhere deep inside a volcano in the mysterious South American mountains lies the legendary lost kingdom of the Incas. And buried in this kingdom is a fabulous treasure of inestimable value.
Fists of Fire
Act like Himself
event1975
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A look at Shaw Brothers Studios in their prime. Includes: interviews with David Chiang; exploring the Shaw Brothers sets; a look at the craftsmen, foley artists and stuntmen of Shaw Bros.; a profile on Run Run Shaw; Italian-meets-Chinese kung-fu films; and a visit from Peter Cushing.
If You Meet Frank Kramer...
event2018
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A new interview with writer-director Gianfranco Parolini, who was a sprightly 94 years of age when this was filmed but sadly passed away in April of 2018. The director of If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death and the Sabata trilogy looks back at his life and film career.
Western all'italiana
event2004 star_border 4
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"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the video, the birth, evolution and conclusion of the Italian western trend is told.
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Director
event1966 star_border 6.2
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Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Island of Lost Girls
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 6.4
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Female American tourists are being kidnapped by a crime ring headed by a beautiful Asian woman. They're drugged and then sent to an island where they are kept as sex slaves to be used by wealthy tourists. Two agents are dispatched to rescue the women and put an end to this operation.
Kill Me Gently
Director
event1967 star_border 6.5
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One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs.
Francis the Smuggler
Director
event1953
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A smuggler has to skip town at avoid the pursuing police. The he returns, he falls for the daughter of his disapproving boss - and soon he has murder in mind
The Three Fantastic Supermen
Writer
event1967 star_border 5.8
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FBI agent Brad joins Tony and Nick, the self styled Supermen who battle crime wearing bullet-proof super-suits. They are on a case involving radioactive counterfeit money and people who can be broken down into precious jewels.
Adiós, Sabata
Writer
event1970 star_border 6.3
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Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Sabata
Director
event1969 star_border 6.2
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Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Return of Sabata
Writer
event1971 star_border 6
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Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Five for Hell
Director
event1969 star_border 4.9
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Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run into a brutal Nazi commander.
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
Director
event1977 star_border 3.7
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Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on Newfoundland's coast. The professor does not know that Hunnicut intends to use the prehistoric creature as a trademark of its multinational industrial group. A very big mistake.
God's Gun
Director
event1976 star_border 5.1
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Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
The Tall Women
Director
event1966 star_border 7.7
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Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
The Little World of Don Camillo
Script Supervisor
event1952 star_border 7.6
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In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
79 A.D.
Director
event1962 star_border 5.6
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Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
Left Handed Johnny West
Director
event1965 star_border 6
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Lone gunman Johnny West and his dog, Gypsy, fall foul of twin bad men who have designs on a gold mine. After having his gun hand crushed Johnny is joined by 2 feuding ex boxers and their explosive expert sidekick as they all take on the villains, restore the mine to it's rightful inheritor and face down the twins, one of whom attempts to outwit them using a clever coffin trick.
The Fury of Hercules
Story
event1962 star_border 4
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In a tyrannical kingdom there is an evil ruler and a queen who lusts after Hercules who is attracted to a handmaiden. A rebellion overthrows the ruler.
Mission To Hell
Director
event1964 star_border 5.7
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Some guys try to locate a evil guy's secret diamond mine somewhere in Thailand.
We Are No Angels
Director
event1975 star_border 6
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Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
3 Avengers
Director
event1964 star_border 7.1
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Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne.
This Time I'll Make You Rich
Writer
event1974
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Joe Esposito, an italo-american, and Brad McCoy, a Scottish man, are engaged by Giorgiakis to be his bodyguards, due to their physical stature, and muscular development. Only, on the cover, both men are dealing in drugs... Wang and his gang get interested in a particular big cache of drugs, and therefore Giorgiakis, and his bodyguards, will find themselves under unexpected pressure.
The Flowers of St. Francis
Script Supervisor
event1950 star_border 7.1
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In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.
Mata Hari's Daughter
First Assistant Director
event1954
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In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.
Eran trecento
Second Assistant Director
event1952
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Set in 1857, it's the story of a band of revolutionaries fighting against the Borbones.
The Old Testament
Director
event1963 star_border 7.7
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The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
Quanto sei bella Roma
Screenplay
event1959
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Claudio and Maurizio, two young and reckless taxi drivers in a Roman gas station meet two American tourists, daughters of a Spanish man that has oil wells in America. Maurizio and Claudio walk the tourists to the Eternal City and forget their girlfriends Patricia and Lorella. The brides, aware of their wanderings,begin to pay them with the same currency.
Goliath Against the Giants
Co-Director
event1961 star_border 5.7
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Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for opposing a usurper king and his consort.
Samson
Screenplay
event1961 star_border 5.2
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While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Screenplay
event1958 star_border 6
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Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
Mission to Caracas
Writer
event1965
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Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.
Sotto a chi tocca!
Director
event1972
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Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the help of his three friends, Pietro, Bitonto, and Gatto Mammone. When he thinks he achieved both his ends - overthrowing Fregonese from power, and winning Julia's love - he finds that his countrymen cupidity for the tyrant's gold is more difficult to deal with.
Conqueror of Maracaibo
Art Direction
event1961
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Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...
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