''The Loves and Times of Scaramouche'' (Italian: ''Le avventure e gli amori di Scaramouche'') is a 1976
comedy film
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Along with his sidekick Whistle (Giancarlo Prete), Scaramouche (Michael Sarrazin) unwittingly becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Napoleon - only to find himself the unlikely object of desire for Napoleon's lascivious new bride, the Empress Josephine (Ursula Andress).
Cast
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Michael Sarrazin
Michael Sarrazin (May 22, 1940 – April 17, 2011)
Scaramouche
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Ursula Andress
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Josephine De Beauharnais
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ...
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Giancarlo Prete
Giancarlo Prete (5 February 1943 – 9 March 2001) was an Italian actor.
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Sal Borgese
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Romano Puppo
Romano Puppo (25 March 1933 – 11 May 1994) was an Italian stuntman and actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Puppo debuted in 1961 in the Mauro Bolognini's drama '' Careless'', and after a number of very minor roles he soon became a regular ...
Release
''The Loves and Times of Scramouche'' was released on March 17, 1976.
Chicago Sun-Times
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'' gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and revealed that "I didn't stay for the whole movie, which is sort of unusual; I like to sit through even the worst films in the hopes of finding things more atrocious than I've already seen ... But 'Scaramouche' had such a deadening quality - it was so lacking in energy and invention and wit - that somehow I knew there was no hope."
Richard Eder
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'' wrote, "This tedious, jumpy, inept effort to do still another comic take-off on historical swashbucklery is as bad as impalement." Arthur D. Murphy of ''
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'' dismissed the film as "a banal Italo-Yugoslavian alleged comedy effort" that was "silly, juvenile, hokey and mostly vulgar nonsense." Gene Siskel of the ''
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'' gave the film one star out of four and wrote that it "gets old fast unless you have an insatiable appetite for seeing actors beaned with salamis and butted with sabres." Gary Arnold of ''
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'' called it "a lot of title for very little entertainment" and a "strenuous throwaway production." Linda Gross of the ''
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'' called it "a silly, slapstick spaghetti spoof of swashbuckling adventure movies" and "a badly-dubbed hodge-podge" which "lacks a deft historical perspective so even the artful battle footage by photographer Giovanni Bergamini looks like it belongs in another kind of movie." Maurizio Cavagnaro of the Genoese newspaper ''Corriere Mercantile'' defined the film as an "indigestible mess".
See also
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List of Italian films of 1976
A list of films produced in Italy in 1976 (see 1976 in film):
References
Footnotes
Sources
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External linksItalian films of 1976at the Internet Movie Database
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1976
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