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Geoffrey Copleston
Gerald Geoffrey Copleston (18 March 1921 – 6 October 1998) was an English actor, voice actor, and translator who worked primarily in Italian genre cinema. He worked on more than one hundred films beginning in 1956, including many English-language dubs of European films. Filmography Live-action roles Partial dubbing roles References External links * 1921 births 1998 deaths English male film actors British expatriates in Italy Place of death missing Male actors from Manchester {{UK-voice-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92 million, and the largest in Northern England. It borders the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The city borders the boroughs of Trafford, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Stockport, Tameside, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Rochdale, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Bury and City of Salford, Salford. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort (''castra'') of Mamucium, ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers River Medlock, Medlock and River Irwell, Irwell. Throughout the Middle Ages, Manchester remained a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paid In Blood
''Paid is Blood'' is a 1971 Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ... directed by Luigi Batzella. The original Italian title of the film was ''Quelle Sporche Anime Dannate''. Plot Tom Carter's brother is robbed and murdered after withdrawing all his money out of the bank to Wed Cora, a saloon girl. Cora helps Tom unmask the real killer, a sinister town boss trying to swindle a prospector's family out of their farm. References External links * 1971 films Spaghetti Western films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobster For Breakfast
''Aragosta a colazione'' (internationally released as ''Lobster for Breakfast'') is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Capitani. For his performance in this film and in '' Il ladrone'', Enrico Montesano was awarded with a Special David di Donatello. Cast * Enrico Montesano as Enrico Tucci * Claude Brasseur as Mario Spinosi * Janet Agren as Monique * Claudine Auger as Carla Spinosi * Silvia Dionisio as Matilde Tucci * Adriana Innocenti Adriana Innocenti (16 October 1926 – 4 March 2016) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Life and career Born in Portico e San Benedetto, Italy, Innocenti formed at the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and then ... as Miss Duchamp * Renato Mori as Accountant Trocchia * Roberto Della Casa as Sommelier See also * List of Italian films of 1979 References External links * 1979 films Commedia all'italiana Italian comedy films Films set in Rome Films directed by Giorgio Capita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers And Liars
''Lovers and Liars'' (''Viaggio con Anita'') is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Goldie Hawn and Giancarlo Giannini. It is Hawn's only foreign film. It was released in the United States in February 1981. Plot Anita (Hawn) is an American actress who decides to vacation in Rome. There, she becomes involved in a romance with her friend's married lover Guido (Giannini). Cast * Goldie Hawn as Anita * Giancarlo Giannini as Guido Massacesi * Claudine Auger as Elisa Massacesi * Aurore Clément as Cora * Laura Betti as Laura * Andréa Ferréol as Noemi * Renzo Montagnani as Teo * Franca Tamantini as Oriana Massacesi * Gino Santercole as Tonino, the truck driver * Lorraine de Selle as Gennifer Critical reception In his review of the film in ''The New York Times'', Herbert Mitgang wrote that "the love scenes, which more or less is what this crazy, mixed up plot aims to be leading up to, lack any redeeming social value," that the writers "seem to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greatest Battle
''The Greatest Battle'' (, also released as ''The Biggest Battle'' and ''Battle Force'') is a 1978 Euro War film co-written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring an all-star ensemble cast, including Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Berger, Stacy Keach, Ray Lovelock, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, Ida Galli and John Huston. The Italian-West German-Yugoslavian co-production was produced by Mino Loy and Luciano Martino for Titanus. The plot centers on a group of German and Allied nationals throughout the early years of World War II, including a British commando (Gemma), an American general (Fonda) and his son (Lovelock), a Jewish actress (Eggar), a war correspondent (Huston) and two very different German officers (Berger and Keach). The film climaxes in a recreation of the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia. Plot During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, ''Wehrmacht'' officer Manfred Roland organizes a dinner with a group of friends and international acquaintances to celebrate the event. The gue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahara Cross
''Sahara Cross'' is a 1977 Italian action film directed by Tonino Valerii. It is the first Italian film to use steadicam.David Ballerini, ''Steadicam. Una rivoluzione nel modo di fare cinema'', Falsopiano, Alessandria 1999, p. 70. Plot Cast *Franco Nero as Jean Bellard * Michel Constantin as Carl Mank * Pamela Villoresi as Nicole * Mauro Barabani as Hamid *Antonio Cantafora as Georges (as Michael Coby) * Nazzareno Zamperla as Captain Zaft *Geoffrey Copleston as Colonel Brown * Pietro Valsecchi as Arab terrorist Production The film was originally very different than the completed film. Valerii stated that the film was originally titled ''Arissa Ballerina'' and written by Adriano Belli. Valerii commented that "In short, everything was the opposite of what Hitchcock recommended, that is, that characters must ignore what the viewer knows. I told the producers I would make a film out of that script, because it just made no sense!" Gastaldi and Valerii re-wrote the script, but st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuelle And The Last Cannibals
''Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals'' (), also known as ''Trap Them and Kill Them'', is a 1977 Italian sexploitation cannibal film directed by Joe D'Amato. The film involves photojournalist Emanuelle (Laura Gemser), who encounters a cannibalistic woman bearing a tattoo of an Amazonian tribe in a mental hospital. Along with Professor Mark Lester ( Gabriele Tinti), the two travel to the Amazon with a team to discover the source of the long-thought-extinct tribe that still practices cannibalism today. The film is an entry in the ''Black Emanuelle'' series and features elements of cannibal films which had just gained popularity after the release of '' Ultimo mondo cannibale'' (1977). D'Amato referred it in an interview as "a reasonable commercial success, especially abroad".Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). "Spaghetti Nightmares". Fantasma Books. p. 77.. Plot In a New York City psychiatric ward, photojournalist Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) learns about a girl there who was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Good And Evil (film)
''Beyond Good and Evil'' (Italian: ''Al di là del bene e del male''; UK title: ''Beyond Evil'') is a 1977 Italian-French drama-biographical film co-written and directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson and Robert Powell. The story follows the intense relationship formed in the 1880s between Friedrich Nietzsche, Lou Salomé and Paul Rée. This is the second part of "The German Trilogy" directed by Liliana Cavani. In ''The Night Porter'' she portrayed the connection between perversion and fascism. This time she depicts the life of Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher who wrote ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' and ''Beyond Good and Evil''. Virna Lisi won the Nastro d'Argento Best supporting Actress award (Silver Ribbon) from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists for her role as Elisabeth Nietzsche. Cast * Dominique Sanda - Lou Salomé * Erland Josephson - Friedrich Nietzsche * Robert Powell - Paul Rée * Virna Lisi - Elisabeth Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Called Magnum
''A Man Called Magnum'' () is a 1977 '' poliziotteschi'' film. This film by Michele Massimo Tarantini stars Luc Merenda. Plot Cast * Luc Merenda: commissario Dario Mauri * Enzo Cannavale: maresciallo Nicola Capece * Claudio Gora: Don Domenico Laurenzi * Giancarlo Badessi: Avv. Cerullo * Nando Murolo: Bonino *Nello Pazzafini Giovanni "Nello" Pazzafini (15 May 1933 – 9 January 1996) was an Italian actor who appeared in a very large number of Peplum film genre, Peplum movies, Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi. Life and career Born in Rome from parents originall ... Releases The film released on Region 1 DVD by NoShame films in 2006. The DVD is currently out-of-print. References External links * 1977 films 1970s Italian-language films 1970s action thriller films Poliziotteschi films 1977 crime thriller films Films directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Operator (1976 Film)
''The Big Operator'' () is a 1976 French comedy film directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Yves Montand. Plot The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire. Moreover, Morland engages the young actress Amandine and borrows a child baptised Alberto from his acquaintance Tony. Morland's plan is to exchange the children and then to reveal this in order to retrieve ransom from millionaire Rifai. But to everybody's surprise Rifai prefers Alberto to his moody and wearisome own son. He refuses to pay ransom because he is now happy as it is. Cast * Yves Montand - Morland * Agostina Belli - Amandine * Claude Brasseur - Ari * Aldo Maccione - Tony * Adolfo Celi - Rifai * Valentina Cortese - the widow * Guy Marchand - Marcel * Ely Galleani - Dorotea * Gianni Cavina - Silvio References External links * 1976 films 1976 comedy films French comedy films 1970s French-language films Films scored by Georges Dele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Matter Of Time (film)
''A Matter of Time'' () is a 1976 musical fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. It features songs by the duo of Kander and Ebb, George Gershwin, and B.G. DeSylva. The screenplay, written by John Gay, is based on the novel ''The Film of Memory'' (''La Volupté d'être'') by Maurice Druon. The fictional story is based loosely on the real life exploits of the infamous Italian eccentric, the Marchesa Casati, whom Druon knew during her declining years in London while he was stationed there during World War II. An American-Italian co-production, ''A Matter of Time'' had a troubled production, which led an aging Vincente Minnelli to be removed from creative control during post-production. The film marked the first screen appearance for Isabella Rossellini, the last for Charles Boyer and Amedeo Nazzari, and it proved to be Minnelli's final project. Plot At a mid-1950s press conference, scenes are shown for an upco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salon Kitty (film)
''Salon Kitty'' is a 1976 erotic-war-drama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was co-produced by Italy, France and West Germany. It is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Norden, covering the real life events of the Salon Kitty operation, under which the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped, and replaced all the prostitutes with trained spies, in order to gather information on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries. It is considered among the progenitors of Nazisploitation genre. In the U.S., the film was edited to lighten the political overtones for an easier marketing as a sexploitation film and released under the title ''Madam Kitty'' with an X rating. Blue Underground Video, for the uncut version, has surrendered the X rating for an unrated DVD and Blu-ray release. Plot Wallenberg (Helmut Berger), an ambitious Nazi SS commandant, devises a plan to select a special group of female info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
