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June 19, 2009

Casanova 70

Mario Monicelli’s 1965 comedy Casanova 70 sneaked out onto DVD in the UK last year, and I hadn’t had the chance to check it…

June 18, 2009

Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen

Aka Romarey: operazione Mazaref Director: Harald Reinl West Germany / Italy Certification number / date: 49021 del 30.04.67 First release date: 18.12.58 – 84′…

June 12, 2009

Mia nonna poliziotto

Director: Steno [Stefano Vanzina] Italy Certification number / date: 27685 del 05.09.58 First release date: 10/09/58 Production companies: Jonia Film Story: Vittorio Metz, Roberto…

April 27, 2009

Los amantes del desierto

Here’s a film with a complicated pedigree. Credited to five different directors (Fernando Cerchio, Gianni Vernuccio, Goffredo Alessandrini, León Klimovsky, Ricardo Muñoz Suay) and no less than seven different writers, it was actually filmed a good two years before its eventual release in 1958.

March 6, 2009

Maruzzella

Maruzzella is a little known 1956 film that neatly intersects several popular Italian genres of the time without really belonging to any of them. The fishing village setting is familiar from numerous Neapolitan dramas, there are regular songs in the fashion of the musicarelli and the story is heavily influenced by the hugely popular melodramas.

February 27, 2009

Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens

After his sole excursion into the espionage genre with FBI chiama Istanbul, a production that proved influential at the time but now appears to be lost, Emimmo Salvi returned to the peplum with Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens.

February 17, 2009

Trasplante de un cerebro

This very obscure science fiction / horror crossover merges the then-popular surgical horror subgenre with a more traditional Dr Jeckyll type scenario, and even manages to throw in elements of a more traditional crime film and even a few ideas pinched from the Italian giallos.

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  • Cinematografo Italian language database of all Italian Films
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