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L'Ennemi Public N°1
The Most Wanted Man or ''Public Enemy Number One'' (, ) is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Louis Seigner.Higbee & Leahy p.344 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. It was one of many co-productions between the France and Italy during the postwar era. Synopsis An ordinary American man is mistaken for a public enemy number one after he puts on a gangster's coat. Only with the help of the real gangster's girlfriend, Lola, is he able to bring the criminal to justice and clear his own name. Cast * Fernandel as Joe Calvet * Zsa Zsa Gabor as Lola la Blonde * Louis Seigner as Le directeur de la prison * David Opatoshu as Slim le Tueur * Nicole Maurey as Peggy * Alfred Adam as Le shérif * Jean Marchat as L'attorney general * Saturnin Fabre as W.W. Stone, l’avocat * Paolo Stoppa as Teddy « Tony » Fallone * Tino Buazzelli as Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Verneuil
Henri Verneuil (; born Ashot Malakian; 15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002) was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden Globe Award, French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards. According to one obituary: For exactly 40 years, the prolific Verneuil made movies as mainstream and commercial as any to be found in America or Britain. In his best period – the 1950s and 1960s – he delivered films in the "tradition of quality" so despised by the Nouvelle Vague. Many of them proved excellent vehicles for old-timers Jean Gabin and Fernandel, and newcomers such as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon. Life and career Early life Verneuil was born Ashot Malakian () to Armenian parents in Rodosto, East Thrace, Turkey. In 1924, when Ashot was a little child his family fled to Mars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Co-production (film)
A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on. In the case of an international co-production, production companies from different countries (typically two to three) are working together. Co-production also refers to the way services are produced by their users, in some parts or entirely. History and benefits The journalist Mark Lawson identifies the first use of the term, in the context of radio production, in 1941, although the programme to which he refers, '' Children Calling Home'', "Presented in collaboration between the CBC of Canada, NBC of the U.S.A., and the BBC, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries", was first broadcast in December 1940. Following the Second World War, US film companies were forbidden by the Marshall Plan to take their film profits in the form of foreign exchange out of European countries. As a result, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Bragaglia
Arturo Bragaglia (7 January 1893 – 21 January 1962) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961. Selected filmography References External links * 1893 births 1962 deaths Italian male film actors People from Frosinone Male actors from Lazio {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Barnabò
Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954. Life and career Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse, with the Annibale Ninchi's company. Since then he was enrolled by some of the most important stage companies of his time, working among others with Marta Abba, Alda Borelli, Maria Melato, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa. In 1927 Barnabò made his screen debut in the silent film '' Beauty of the World'', but his film career took off with the sound cinema, when he became one of the most active character actors of the 1930s and the 1940s. Specialized in good-natured and bourgeois character roles, he is best known as the villain capitalist in Vittorio De Sica's '' Miracle in Milan''. Barnabò was married to actress , with whom he often worked in films and on stage. Selected filmography * '' Beauty of the World'' (1927) * '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Ninchi
Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. Selected filmography * '' Before the Jury'' (1931) – Marcello Barra, il guardacaccia * '' Mother Earth'' (1931) – Il commandatore Bordani * ''La stella del cinema'' (1931) * ''La scala'' (1931) – Avvocato Giulio Terpi – suo marito * ''Il solitario della montagna'' (1931) * '' La Wally'' (1932) – Hagenbach * '' Red Passport'' (1935) – Un passeggero sul 'Santa Fe' * '' I Love You Only'' (1936) – Cesare Baldi * '' Conquest of the Air'' (1936) – Gabriele Adanti di Perugia (uncredited) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) – Lelius * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) – Alfio * ''La conquista dell'aria'' (1939) – Gabriello Danti * '' Dora Nelson'' (1939) – Giovanni Ferrari * ''Scandalo per bene'' (1940) – Marco Alviano, mercante di vetri * ''L'uomo della legione'' (1940) – Un legionario * ''L'arcidiavolo'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tino Buazzelli
Agostino "Tino" Buazzelli (13 September 1922 – 20 October 1980) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1948 and 1978. After a diploma in education, Buazzelli enrolled at the in Rome, graduating in 1946. He made his debut the following year, in the Maltagliati- Gassman stage company. He made his film debut in 1948, in Riccardo Freda's . Buazzelli's major successes relate to theatre, notably several stage works played at the in Milan between the 1950s and 1960s, and his performance of Brecht's ''Life of Galileo'' (1963) is referred to as the peak of his career. Buazzelli had a significant television success as Nero Wolfe in a series of television films in which he starred between 1969 and 1971. Partial filmography * '' The Mysterious Rider'' (1948) – Josef, Count Ipatieff's servant (uncredited) * '' Guarany'' (1948) * '' The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * (1949) * '' Margaret of Cortona'' (1950) – Rinaldo degli Uberti * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Stoppa
Paolo Stoppa (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor. Biography Paolo Stoppa was born in Rome into a family of a ministerial official, Luigi Stoppa, and Adriana De Antonis. He began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. From 1938 to 1940, he worked at the Teatro Eliseo, playing characters from the classical and modern repertoire. Stoppa's most celebrated works include those after World War II, when he met director Luchino Visconti: the two, together with Stoppa's wife, actress Rina Morelli, formed a trio whose adaptations of works by authors such as Chekhov, Shakespeare and Goldoni became highly acclaimed. He gave to the theater a personal touch with his energetic play. He debuted in television in 1960 in the drama series ''Vita col padre e con la madre'', reaching the top of the popularity in the 1970s, in particular in the adaptation of crime novels by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (''Il giudice e il suo boia'' and ''Il s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturnin Fabre
Saturnin Fabre (; 4 April 1884 – 4 October 1961) was a French film actor. Selected filmography * ''La rafale'' (1920) - comte de Bréchebel * ''Mademoiselle de La Seiglière'' (1921) * '' The Road Is Fine'' (1930) - Le professeur Pique * ''Love Songs A love song is a song about love, falling in love, broken heart, heartbreak after a breakup, and the feelings that these experiences bring. Love songs can be found in a variety of different music genres. They can come in various formats, from sa ...'' (1930) - M, Crispin * '' My Cousin from Warsaw'' (1931) - Saint-Hilaire * ''Atout cœur'' (1931) - Lefol * '' The Darling of Paris'' (1931) - Hector * '' The Improvised Son'' (1932) - M. Brassart * '' The Premature Father'' (1933) - Le père Puma * '' His Other Love'' (1934) - Monsieur Léopard - le directeur * '' Casanova'' (1934) - M. Binetti * ''Les deux canards'' (1934) - Le baron de Saint-Amour * ''L'enfant du carnaval'' (1934) - Hubert * ''On a trouvé une femme nue'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Marchat
Jean Marchat (1902–1966) was a French film actor who appeared in around fifty films during his career. He made his film debut in 1931 and appeared in Maurice Tourneur's '' Departure'' the same year.Waldman p.144 Selected filmography * '' Departure'' (1931) * '' The Malay Dagger'' (1931) * ''Checkmate'' (1931) * '' In the Name of the Law'' (1932) * '' The Case of Doctor Brenner'' (1933) * '' Stormy Waters'' (1941) * '' The Pavilion Burns'' (1941) * '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) * '' Colonel Pontcarral'' (1942) * '' Mermoz'' (1943) * '' Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * '' The Mysterious Monsieur Sylvain'' (1947) * '' Last Chance Castle'' (1947) * '' Three Boys, One Girl'' (1948) * '' The Barton Mystery'' (1949) * '' Véronique'' (1950) * '' Shadow and Light'' (1951) * '' The Passerby'' (1951) * '' The Red Needle'' (1951) * '' They Were Five'' (1952) * '' Zoé'' (1954) * '' Nights of Montmartre'' (1955) * '' Mademoiselle from Paris'' (1955) * ''Napoléon'' (1955) * '' The Miracle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Adam
Alfred Roger Adam (4 April 1908 – 7 May 1982) was a French stage and film character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles. Selected filmography *''Speedway'' (1929) - Doctor (uncredited) *'' La Kermesse Héroïque'' (1935) - Josef Van Meulen, le boucher * '' In the Service of the Tsar'' (1936) - Ossip *'' Life Dances On'' (1937) - Fred *'' People Who Travel'' (1938) - Le médecin (uncredited) *'' La Glu'' (1938) - Raoul *'' Je chante...'' (1938) - Alfred * '' The Duraton Family'' (1939) - Le docteur *'' Sur le Plancher des Vaches'' (1940) - Le journaliste (uncredited) * '' The Chain Breaker'' (1941) - Guillaume * '' The Woman I Loved Most'' (1942) - Charles, le fondé de pouvoir * '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) - Le décorateur (uncredited) * '' At Your Command, Madame'' (1942) - Ferdinand - le chauffeur de Palureau * '' Home Port'' (1943) - Bertrand *'' Farandole'' (1945) - Le marlou *'' Boule de Suif'' (1945) - Cornudet *'' La Vie de Bohème'' (1945m) - Alexandre S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Maurey
Nicole Maurey (20 December 1925 – 11 March 2016) was a French actress, who appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1945 and 1997. Life and career Born in Bois-Colombes, a northwestern suburb of Paris, Maurey was originally a dancer before being cast in her first film role in 1944. In 1953 Maurey appeared opposite Bing Crosby in '' Little Boy Lost'' that was filmed in France. The following year Universal-International brought Nicole Maurey from France, Gia Scala from Italy and Myriam Verbeeck from Belgium to the United States to test for the role of Mary Magdelene in an unproduced Biblical epic ''The Galileans''. She remains most noted as Charlton Heston's leading lady in '' Secret of the Incas'' (1954), often cited as the primary inspiration for ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981). She starred in films with Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Rex Harrison, Robert Taylor and Mickey Rooney, among numerous others. She was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Opatoshu
David Opatoshu (born David Opatovsky; January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American actor. He is best known for his role in the film '' Exodus'' (1960). Biography Opatoshu began his acting career in the Yiddish theater. Following his tenure in the role of "Mr. Carp" in the 1938 national tour of the play '' Golden Boy,'' he made his Broadway debut in 1940 in the play ''Night Music''. After serving with the Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, Opatoshu returned to Manhattan and worked in radio, theater, television and films. His wartime experiences provided the material for "Between Sea and Sand," a collection of short stories he published in Yiddish in 1946. Films His first film, ''The Light Ahead'' (1939), directed by Henry Felt and Edgar G. Ulmer, is notable for being entirely in Yiddish. Opatoshu appeared as the homicide detective, Sgt. Ben Miller, in Jules Dassin's film noir, '' The Naked City'' (1948) produced by Mark Hellinger, and again in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
