{"id":2623,"date":"2011-06-24T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2011-06-24T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:15:49","slug":"002-operazione-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/002-operazione-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"002 operazione Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"002<\/a>
002 operazione Luna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1965
\nOriginal running time: 90 minutes
\nItaly
\nAn IMA (Rome), Agata (Madrid) production
\nDistributed by Medusa
\nDirector: Lucio Fulci
\nStory: Amedeo Sollazzo, Vittorio Metz
\nScreenplay: Vittorio Metz, Amedeo Sollazzo
\nCinematography: Tino Santoni
\nMusic: Coriolano Gori
\nEditor: Pedro del Rey
\nArt director: Adolfo Cofi\u00f1o
\nCast: Ciccio Ingrassia\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 (Ciccio \/ Major Borovin), Franco Franchi (Franco \/ Colonel Paradowsky), Monica Randal (Mishca Paradowsky), Linda Sini (Leonidova), Maria Silva, Enzo Andronico, Ignazio Leone, Emilio Rodr\u00edguez, Elena Sedlak, Pasquale Zagaria, Franco Morici, Piero Morgia<\/p>\n

Story<\/strong>
\nFollowing an unexplained loss of contact with a space mission to the moon, Soviet authorities decide to avert news of the possible disaster by quickly sending off another mission, manned by exact doubles of the missing and now presumed dead cosmonauts.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the only lookalikes they can come up with are a pair of idiotic thieves, Franco and Ciccio, who are kidnapped and launched into space.\u00a0 Things only become more complicated for them when they return to earth…<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong>
\nA Soviet spaceship is lost. To mask the failure a second spacecraft is sent to to the moon with the doubles of the two missing cosmonauts, thieves captured in Rome. One of the 15 films of 1965 made by the comedy double act Franco & Ciccio.\u00a0 Three space probes (Lunik) were launched by the Soviets in 1959,and the American Apollo program put the first man on the moon in July 1969, four years after the two comics. (Morandini)<\/p>\n

Other links<\/strong>
\nGiallo Fever<\/a>
\nA good review here, although I think Keith makes a mistake typical of contemporary film reviewers, by viewing this as one of Fulci’s lesser works, a job for hire which he didn’t really care about.\u00a0 It was, but these Franco & Ciccio gigs were films that the directors were extremely proud of (including Fulci), possibly more so than many of their films that were better known to English language audiences.\u00a0 And talking of limitations ignores the fact that all Italian genre films were subject to creative limitations, whether they were westerns, horror films of comedies.<\/p>\n

Here’s a clip on YouTube:<\/p>\n

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