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John Francis Lane
John Francis Lane (1 December 1928 – 15 January 2018) was an English journalist, critic and actor. He was known for being a small-part actor in many Italian films, and as a contributor to ''The Guardian'' writing obituaries for Italian cultural figures. Biography Lane was born in Tankerton, a suburb of Whitstable in Kent, to a middle-class family in 1928. He became a boarder at the Royal Grammar School in Worcester, and towards the end of the Second World War attended Dulwich College in London. He then had a spell as a stage manager in London's West End. Lane first visited Italy in 1949, following a German boyfriend from Paris, where he was then studying at the Sorbonne. After learning Italian at the University of Florence, he had settled in Rome by 1951, finding Italy more tolerant of his homosexuality than the Britain of the time. Learning Italian in Florence, he became entranced by the country after seeing Franco Zeffirelli's production of ''Troilus and Cressida''. Zef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitstable
Whitstable () is a town on the north coast of Kent adjoining the convergence of the Swale Estuary and the Greater Thames Estuary in southeastern England, north of Canterbury and west of Herne Bay. The 2011 Census reported a population of 32,100. The town, formerly known as Whitstable-on-Sea, was famous for its 'Native Oysters' which were collected from beds beyond the low water mark from Roman times until the mid-20th century. The annual Whitstable Oyster Festival takes place during the summer. In 1830, one of the earliest passenger railway services was opened by the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway Company. In 1832 the company built a harbour and extended the line to handle coal and other bulk cargos for the City of Canterbury. The railway has closed but the harbour still plays an important role in the town's economy. The railway route, known as The Crab and Winkle Line, is now a cycle path which leads to the neighbouring city of Canterbury. History Archaeological fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post-World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same. A member of the Forza Italia party, he served as the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senator for Catania between 1994 until 2001. Films he directed included the Shakespearean adaptations ''The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film), The Taming of the Shrew'' (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; ''Romeo and Juliet (1968 film), Romeo and Juliet'' (1968), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director; and ''Hamlet (1990 film), Hamlet'' (1990), starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. His Biblical miniseries, television miniseries ''Jesus of Nazareth (TV series), Jesus of Nazareth'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Quiet Place In The Country
''A Quiet Place in the Country'' ( it, Un tranquillo posto di campagna, french: Un coin tranquille à la campagne) is a 1968 giallo thriller film directed by Elio Petri, and starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave. Based on the short story "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, its plot follows an artist who relocates to a rural villa with his girlfriend, where he begins to experience increasingly terrifying, apparently supernatural events. Plot Wanting to escape the bustle of the city, visual artist Leonardo Ferri prepares to move from Milan to a rural estate in the Italian countryside with his British girlfriend, a gallery curator named Flavia. His real estate advisor shows him a large home, but Leonardo finds himself obsessively drawn to a sprawling, dilapidated abandoned villa nearby. Leonardo breaks into the gated property one afternoon and meets Attilio, its longtime caretaker, who tells him the owners may let it. Leonardo ultimately rents the property, and swiftly b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rover (1967 Film)
''L'avventuriero'' (internationally released as ''The Rover'') is a 1967 Italian war-drama film directed by Terence Young and starring Anthony Quinn. It is based on the 1923 novel '' The Rover'' written by Joseph Conrad. Cast *Anthony Quinn as Peyrol *Rosanna Schiaffino as Arlette *Rita Hayworth as Caterina *Richard Johnson as Real * Ivo Garrani as Scevola * Mino Doro as Dussard * Luciano Rossi as Michel *Mirko Valentin as Jacot * Giovanni Di Benedetto as Lt. Bolt *Anthony Dawson Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954) and ''Midnight Lace'' (1960), and playin ... as Capitain Vincent Reception The film performed disappointingly at the box office, earning $225,000 in rentals internationally and $70,000 domestically. According to ABC records, it suffered an overall loss of $1,595,000. References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Greco (1966 Film)
''El Greco'' is a 1966 Italian drama film and biography of the painter El Greco directed by Luciano Salce and starring Mel Ferrer and Rosanna Schiaffino. Cast * Mel Ferrer as El Greco (Domenico Teotocopulo) * Rosanna Schiaffino as Jeronima de las Cuevas * Adolfo Celi as Don Miguel de las Cuevas * Mario Feliciani as Nino de Guevara * Franco Giacobini as Francisco * Renzo Giovampietro as Brother Felix * Ángel Aranda as Don Luis * Nino Crisman as Diego de Castillo * Gabriella Giorgelli as Maria * Giulio Donnini as Pignatelli * Fernando Rey as Philip II * Rafael Rivelles as Marquis of Villena * John Karlsen as Prosecutor * John Francis Lane as De Agueda * Rossana Martini as Zaida Production It was Mel Ferrer's first film as producer. According to Ferrer, the film cost $800,000 which he felt was modest considering the film was in color and was the first movie allowed to shoot at Toledo Cathedral. Reception According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,300,000 in re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Two Colonels
''I due colonnelli'' (internationally released as ''The Two Colonels'') is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. The character of Totò took inspiration from a similar character he played in ''Totò Diabolicus''. Plot The story is of Italian and British troops facing off on the Greek-Albanian border in 1943. Both sides take, lose, and retake a border village countless times during the entire movie. The village is taken and retaken by both sides so many times that the locals don't even pay attention to the battles any more and openly collaborate with whichever side is occupying the village at that time. Both sides use the same hotel as their HQ and a friendship and mutual respect even develops between the two opposing commanding officers. This goes on until the Germans arrive and order the Italian commander to destroy the village killing its inhabitants, an order the Italian commander refuses to carry out bringing on a death sentence. His men refuse the German office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Sorpasso
''Il sorpasso'' (, occasionally titled ''The Easy Life'') is a 1962 Italian cult comedy film co-written and directed by Dino Risi and starring Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Spaak. It is considered Risi's masterpiece and one of the best examples of the commedia all'italiana film genre. Plot The film starts in a sun-baked and seemingly empty Rome on an August morning during the Ferragosto national holiday. A young, timid law student, Roberto (Trintignant), gazing out his window, is asked by a 36-ish man named Bruno (Gassman), who is passing on the street below at the wheel of a convertible Lancia Aurelia, to make a phone call for him. Roberto tells him to come up and make the call himself. After Bruno fails to contact his friends — he is running a full hour late for his meeting with them, something he apparently doesn't deem a good enough motive for them to have "abandoned" him — he insists on repaying Roberto's courtesy with an aperitivo. Tired of stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witch's Curse
''The Witch's Curse'' ( it, Maciste all'inferno, lit=Maciste in Hell) is a 1962 peplum- fantasy film, directed by Riccardo Freda. Plot In the mid-1500s, a witch is burned in Scotland and places a curse on the inhabitants before she dies. One hundred years later, the tree she was chained to and burned still stands with no one daring to destroy it. The curse remains by forcing women to commit suicide. The witch's descendant, Martha Gunt, is sentenced to be burned for witchcraft. As she is placed in a prison cell, Maciste comes forth to fight evil. When he uproots the cursed tree, he finds an entrance to Hell where he attempts to track down the original witch to rescind her curse and attempts to help the damned from their plight. Cast * Kirk Morris as Maciste * Hélène Chanel as Fania * Vira Silenti as Martha Gaunt * Andrea Bosic as Judge Parrish * Charles Fernley Fawcett as the Doctor * Remo De Angelis as Prometheus * John Karlsen * Gina Mascetti * Puccio Ceccarelli Product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wastrel
''The Wastrel'' ( it, Il relitto) is a 1961 Italian-Cypriot drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Ellie Lambeti. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Ellie Lambeti as Mrs. Bell * Van Heflin as Duncan Bell * Franco Fabrizi as Rudi Veronese * Fosco Giachetti as Captain Hugh Hardy * Annie Gorassini as Monique * Clelia Matania as Betsy * Renata Mauro as Moglie del governatore * Tiberio Mitri as Macniff * Paul Muller * Rosalba Neri as La ragazza nel night club See also * List of Cypriot films * ''Attilas '74'' * ''Akamas Akamas (Greek: , tr, Akama), is a promontory and cape at the northwest extremity of Cyprus with an area of 230 square kilometres. Ptolemy described it as a thickly wooded headland, divided into two by summits mountain rangerising towards the ...'' References External links * 1961 films Cypriot drama films English-language Italian films 1961 drama films Italian black-and-white films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passionate Thief (film)
''The Passionate Thief'' ( it, Risate di gioia) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Anna Magnani and Totò. Plot Two friends (Toto and Magnani) live by their wits working as comedians and cabaret at Cinecittà, before being invited to friends' parties or masked balls during New Year's Eve in Rome. The two, however, even though they make people laugh all the time in public, live an inner conflict, namely that the two have always to be aware to give a smile to someone, but they can never be rich and happy because they are street artists and with a precarious wage. Cast * Anna Magnani as Gioia Fabbricotti (alias Tortorella) * Totò as Umberto "Infortunio" Pennazzuto * Ben Gazzara as Lello * Fred Clark as The American * Edy Vessel as The girl * Gina Rovere as Mimi * Toni Ucci Antonio "Toni" Ucci (13 January 1922 – 16 or 19 February 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Run With The Devil
''Run with the Devil'' ( it, Via Margutta) is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Camerini. Cast * Antonella Lualdi as Donata *Gérard Blain as Stefano *Franco Fabrizi as Giosuè *Cristina Gaioni as Marisa * Yvonne Furneaux as Marta *Claudio Gora as Pippo Cantigliani *Corrado Pani as Youth * Spiros Focás as Marco Belli * Alex Nicol as Bill Rogers * Marion Marshall as Grace *Franco Giacobini *Gabriella Giorgelli Gabriella Giorgelli (born 29 July 1941) is an Italian film and television actress. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1960 and 1998. Biography Early life Born in Fossola, a frazione of Carrara, Giorgelli was the daughter of a busines ... References External links * 1960 films 1960 comedy-drama films Italian comedy-drama films Films directed by Mario Camerini 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films {{comedy-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Dolce Vita
''La Dolce Vita'' (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life"Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, a tabloid journalist who, over seven days and nights, journeys through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. The screenplay, written by Fellini and three other screenwriters, can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation.Cf. Bondanella 1994, p. 143 and Kezich, p. 203 Released in Italy on 5 February 1960, ''La Dolce Vita'' was both a critical success and worldwide commercial hit, despite censorship in some regions. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Costumes. It was nominated for three more Oscars, including Best Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
