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Cut And Run (film)
''Cut and Run'' () is a 1985 Italian exploitation adventure thriller film directed by Ruggero Deodato, co-written by Dardano Sacchetti, and starring Lisa Blount, Leonard Mann, Willie Aames, Richard Lynch, Michael Berryman, and Eriq La Salle in his film debut. The film is the third part of Deodato's "Cannibal Trilogy" - preceded by ''Ultimo mondo cannibale'' (1977) and ''Cannibal Holocaust'' (1980), and follows a news reporter caught in a war between drug traffickers and a murderous cult in the Amazon jungle. Plot News reporter Fran Hudson and her cameraman Mark Ludman investigate a war in the jungles of South America between drug cartels and the cult-like army of Colonel Brian Horne, a Vietnam War veteran and former associate of Jim Jones. Cast Production ''Cut and Run'' was originally developed as a project by director Wes Craven with the working title ''Marimba''. It was initially going to star Tim McIntire, Dirk Benedict, and Christopher Mitchum, with a screenplay writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato (; 7 May 1939 – 29 December 2022) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. His career spanned a wide-range of genres including Sword-and-sandal, peplum, Comedy film, comedy, Drama (film and television), drama, Poliziotteschi, poliziottesco, and Science fiction film, science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism. His most notable film is ''Cannibal Holocaust'', considered one of the most controversial and brutal in the history of cinema, which was seized, banned or heavily censored in many countries, and which contained special effects so realistic that they led to Deodato being arrested on suspicion of murder. It is also cited as a precursor of Found footage (film technique), found footage films such as ''The Blair Witch Project'' and ''The Last Broadcast (film), The Last Broadcast''. The film strengthened Deodato's fame as an "extreme" director and earned him the nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct United States in the Vietnam War, US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian Civil War, Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming Communism, communist in 1975. After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an area of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. Venezuela is a presidential republic consisting of States of Venezuela, 23 states, the Venezuelan Capital District, Capital District and Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital. The territory o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Vincenzoni
Luciano Vincenzoni (; 7 March 1926 – 22 September 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000. Biography Vincenzoni was born in Treviso, Veneto. He is probably best known in world cinema for his scriptwriting of Sergio Leone's ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965) and ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' in 1966, but he also wrote for a number of other Spaghetti Westerns. Filmography His screenwriting credits also include: *'' The Wanderers'' (1956) * ''The Italians They Are Crazy'' (1958) * '' Revolt of the Mercenaries'' (1961) *''La vita agra'' (1964) *'' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1964) *'' The Birds, the Bees and the Italians'' (1966) *''Death Rides a Horse'' (1967) *'' The Mercenary'' (1968) *''Duck, You Sucker!'', a.k.a. ''A Fistful of Dynamite'' (1971) *''Orca'' (1977) *'' Raw Deal'' (1986) *'' Once Upon a Crime'' (1992) *'' Malèna'' (2000) See also *Sergio Leone Sergio Leone ( ; ; 3 January 1929 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Mitchum
Christopher Mitchum (born October 16, 1943) is an American film actor, screenwriter, and businessman. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the second son of film star Robert Mitchum and Dorothy Mitchum. He is the younger brother of actor James Mitchum. Film career Mitchum appeared in more than 60 films in 14 countries. He appeared with John Wayne in the motion pictures ''Chisum'' (1970), ''Rio Lobo'' (1970), and ''Big Jake'' (1971). He was cited by Box Office (magazine), Box Office magazine as one of the top five stars of the future and the recipient of Photoplay's Gold Medal Award for 1972. He won both The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Golden Horse Award (1981) and The Golden Reel, Best Actor award (1988, Indonesia). He has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1978. He was the Screen Actors Guild national first vice president, in 1987–89 and a member of the SAG board of directors, in 1983–89. Personal life Mitchum married Cynth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict (born Dirk Niewoehner; March 1, 1945) is an American actor and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' film and television series and Templeton "Face" Peck in ''The A-Team'' television series. He is the author of ''Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy'' and ''And Then We Went Fishing''. Early life Benedict was born Dirk Niewoehner on March 1, 1945, in Helena, Montana, the son of George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer, and his wife Priscilla Mella (née Metzger), an accountant. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He graduated from Whitman College in 1967. Benedict allegedly chose his stage name from a serving of Eggs Benedict he had prior to his acting career. He is of German extraction. Career Benedict's film debut was in the 1972 film '' Georgia, Georgia''. When the New York run for '' Butterflies Are Free'' ended, he received an offer to repeat his performance in Hawaii, opposite B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim McIntire
Timothy John McIntire (July 19, 1944 – April 15, 1986) was an American character actor, perhaps best known for his starring roles as Alan Freed in the film ''American Hot Wax'' (1978), as singer George Jones in the television movie ''Stand by Your Man (film), Stand by Your Man'' (1981), and for his performances in ''The Gumball Rally'' (1976) and ''Brubaker'' (1980). Biography McIntire co-starred as Dickie, the son-in-law in the 1968 pilot ''Justice for All (TV pilot), Justice for All'', which eventually (1971) was picked up as the series ''All in the Family'', with Rob Reiner as the son-in-law. McIntire's film roles include appearances in ''Shenandoah (film), Shenandoah'' (1965); ''The Thousand Plane Raid'' (1969); ''The Sterile Cuckoo'' (1969); ''Aloha, Bobby and Rose'' (1975); ''The Gumball Rally'' (1976); ''The Choirboys (film), The Choirboys'' (1977); ''Brubaker'' (1980); ''Fast-Walking'' (1982) and ''Sacred Ground (1983 film), Sacred Ground'' (1983). McIntire appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Amongst his Wes Craven filmography, prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the Horror film, horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre. Craven created the A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise), ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise (1984–present), writing and directing A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film), the first film, co-writing and producing the third, ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987), and writing and directing the seventh, ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare'' (1994). He directed the first four films in the Scream (franchise), ''Scream'' franchise (1996–2011). He directed cult classics ''The Last House on the Left'' (1972) and ''The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film), The Hills Have Eyes'' (1977), the horror comedy ''The People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Barbareschi
Luca Giorgio Barbareschi (born July 28, 1956) is an Uruguayan-born Italian actor, filmmaker, businessman, and politician. He represented Sardinia in the Chamber of Deputies between 2008 and 2014. Early life Barbareschi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to Italian parents Francesco Saverio, an engineer and former World War II partisan from Milan, and Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His parents divorced when he was six, and Barbareschi moved to Milan. He attended the Leo XIII Institute, Milan in the 1960s. Acting career Barbareschi studied acting with Alessandro Fersen, and began his professional career in 1970 as an assistant director to Virginio Puecher at the Teatro di Verona. He spent a year as an assistant director at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, then to Frank Corsaro at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He subsequently enrolled in the Actors Studio, where he studied for four years. He was one of four actors whom the Italian pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Magnolfi
Barbara Magnolfi is a French-Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films and three TV series since 1975 Selected filmography References External links * * Living people Italian film actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Tinti (actor)
Gabriele Tinti (22 August 1932 – 12 November 1991) was an Italian actor who was married to actress and model Laura Gemser. Biography Tinti was born in Molinella, Emilia-Romagna. He started his career in the 1948 movie '' Difficult Years'', and eventually got his first major starring role in the 1954 movie '' Chronicle of Poor Lovers''. He often played the role of a friendly and vigorous young man. He made an appearance, in 1968, in the last episode of ''The Andy Griffith Show''. The episode, ''Mayberry R.F.D.'', served as the transition episode of the then new TV series of the same name. In 1964, he played in the French movie ''The Troops of St. Tropez''. In 1971, he played the seducing ''Don César'' in the French movie '' Delusions of Grandeur''. The French press would refer to him as the "Italian Alain Delon". By the end of the 1960s, he used his playboy looks to shift his acting career towards erotic movies, and featured in many of the (Emanuelle) movie series. He was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Black
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood. Her career spanned over 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress. A native of suburban Chicago, Black studied theater at Northwestern University before dropping out and relocating to New York City. She performed on Broadway in 1965 before making her major film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's ''You're a Big Boy Now'' (1966). Black relocated to California and was cast as an LSD-tripping prostitute in Dennis Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
