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Our Man In Jamaica
''Our Man in Jamaica''/''Operation Jamaica'' () is a 1965 Italian Spanish German international co-production Eurospy adventure film directed by an uncredited Mel Welles. It was credited to for reasons of European funding.p.274 Paul, Louis ''Mel Welles Interview'' ''Tales from the cult film trenches: interviews with 36 actors from horror, science fiction and exploitation cinema'' McFarland, 06/09/2007 Plot Agent 001 Ken Stewart is sent to Jamaica to locate the missing Agent 009 who vanished investigating an arms smuggling operation. After two of Stewart's friends are found dead of electrocution, 001's investigation leads him to an expatriate American criminal who was sentenced to the electric chair but escaped from prison. Seeking revenge, he assembles an army of terrorists based on an island seven miles from Jamaica called Dominica. His arms smuggling is the beginning of a scheme to attack the United States with the aid of Red China and Cuba. The film was made during the April R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in that the genre required a setting that was both remote in time and space to the film audience and that it contained a positive hero who tries to make right in their world. Some critics such as Taves limit the genre to naturalistic settings, while Yvonne Tasker found that would limit films such as '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981) from the genre. Tasker found that most films in the genre featured narratives located within a fantasy world of exoticized setting, which are often driven by quests for characters seeking mythical objects or treasure hunting. The genre is closely associated with the action film, and is sometimes used interchangeably or in tandem with that genre. The setting and visuals are key elements of adventure films. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nando Angelini
Nando Angelini (born 17 August 1933) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1957. Life and career Born in San Benedetto del Tronto, Angelini enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1955. Very active as a character actor, he was sometimes credited as Nick Angel and Fernand Angels. Besides his acting career, he worked for RAI as a documentarist and a television writer of educational programs. As of March 2024, Angelini lives in Porto d'Ascoli Porto d'Ascoli (Ascoli's Harbour) is a modern residential district of San Benedetto del Tronto in the Province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche region. History It commemorates in its name the building of a port, in 1245, at the end of Tronto river, bui .... Filmography References External links * 1933 births Living people Italian male film actors 20th-century Italian male actors Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni Male actors from le Marche {{Italy-film-actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Baldwin (actor)
Raffaele "Raf" Baldassarre (17 January 1932 - 11 January 1995) was an Italian film actor. Life and career Born Raffaele Baldassarre in Giurdignano, Lecce, Apulia, he started his career in the late 1950s, being cast in many peplum and adventure films, alternating between stereotypical roles of the young villain and the loyal friend of the protagonist. Following a fashion of the time for American-sounding stage names, in the second half of the 1960s he was credited "Ralph Baldwyn" or "Ralph Baldwin" in several Spaghetti Westerns. Baldassarre was active until mid-eighties, usually cast in supporting roles, and he occasionally also worked as a producer. Selected filmography * ''Pirate of the Half Moon'' (1957) - Un corsaro * '' The Pirate of the Black Hawk'' (1958) - Pirata Rosso * ''Pia de' Tolomei'' (1958) * ''The Nights of Lucretia Borgia'' (1959) - Ruggero * ''The Night of the Great Attack'' (1959) - Young Pickpocket * ''The Loves of Salammbo'' (1960) - Capo Mercenario * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bartha
János Bartha (6 February 1915 – 7 March 1991), better known as John Bartha, was a Hungarian actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his role as the Sheriff who captured Tuco in the 1966 Sergio Leone film, ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. From the early 1940s, he performed in rural theater companies and between 1948 and 1956 in theaters in Budapest. He made nearly 100 appearances in film between 1949 and 1981. Bartha died in Budapest on 7 March 1991, at the age of 76. Filmography * ''Mickey Magnate, Mágnás Miska'' (1949) - One of the servants * ''Gala Suit, Díszmagyar'' (1949) - One of the counts at the ball * ''Full Steam Ahead (film), Teljes gőzzel'' (1951) - László Román * ''Storm (1952 film), Vihar'' (1952) - Flautist, Tractor Driver, and one of the reapers * ''Állami Áruház, Állami áruház'' (1952) - A man who walking in the boathouse with an oar on his shoulder * ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Sini
Linda Sini (13 February 1924 – 5 February 1999) was an Italian actress. She made 75 appearances between 1950 and 1979 and several appearances after this, mostly in film. Debuting in '' Sigillo rosso'' in 1950, she went on to star in films such as Luigi Zampa's comedy '' Anni ruggenti'' (1962), and the James Bond spy spoofs ''002 operazione Luna'' and '' A 001, operazione Giamaica'' (1965). Although primarily a film actress, she did appear in '' Joe Petrosino'' (1972) and in '' Il 90'' in 1979. In 1986 she appeared in ''Anemia''. Selected filmography * '' Red Seal'' (1950) * '' Bellissima'' (1951) - Mimmetta * ''Salvate mia figlia'' (1951) * '' Stranger on the Prowl'' (1952) - Signora Raffetto * '' A Mother Returns'' (1952) - Elena * ''Rimorso'' (1952) * ''Beauties on Motor Scooters'' (1952) - Franca * ''Cronaca di un delitto'' (1953) - Elena * ''La prigioniera di Amalfi'' (1954) * ''Bella non piangere'' (1955) - Stelle d'oro * ''Accadde tra le sbarre'' (1955) - Marion * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Valentin
Barbara Valentin (born Ursula Ledersteger; 15 December 1940 – 22 February 2002) was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Biography Valentin was born in 1940 as Ursula Ledersteger in Vienna, Austria (then part of Nazi Germany). Her father was the Austrian art director Hans Ledersteger and her mother the actress Irmgard Alberti. She had a half-brother, Alfred Ledersteger. She was married to German film director Helmut Dietl. During the early to mid-1980s, Valentin was close friends with Freddie Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter in her Munich apartment for some time. She is featured in the video for the Queen song It's a Hard Life. During her career, Valentin was nicknamed "the German Jayne Mansfield". On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Kieling
Wolfgang Kieling (16 March 1924 – 7 October 1985) was a German actor. Biography In films since childhood in his native Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films, notably in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Torn Curtain'' (1966), where he played Gromek, an East German agent brutally slain by Paul Newman's character. He also played Gromek's brother in a scene that was deleted from the final print. Kieling had a small role in '' $'' (aka, ''The Heist'', 1971), starring Warren Beatty. In a British film, '' Amsterdam Affair'' (1968), he portrayed the fictional Dutch detective Van der Valk several years before Barry Foster (another Hitchcock alumnus) was cast in the same role for the British TV series. He did much work on West German TV, including the first episode of ''Derrick'' (, 1974). The best of his later roles was in the film '' Out of Order'' (1984), originally titled ''Abwärts''. Early on, Kieling also became a dubbing actor for West German dubs of foreign films, servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margitta Scherr
Margitta Scherr (15 August 1943 – 30 December 2020) was a German film and television actress.Honsal p.263 Selected filmography * '' Father, Mother and Nine Children'' (1958) * '' Hunting Party'' (1959) * ''Of Course, the Motorists'' (1959) * '' The Sweet Life of Count Bobby'' (1962) * ''Holiday in St. Tropez'' (1964) * '' The Merry Wives of Tyrol'' (1964) * ''Our Man in Jamaica'' (1965) * ''Come to the Blue Adriatic ''Come to the Blue Adriatic'' () is a 1966 Spanish-West German comedy film directed by Lothar Gündisch and starring Dietmar Schönherr, Hannelore Auer and Gustavo Rojo. In Spain it was known as ''The Red Bikini'' ().Llinàs p.563 Although se ...'' (1966) * '' The Sinful Village'' (1966) * '' Salto Mortale'' (1969–1972, TV series) References Bibliography * Claudio Honsal. ''Peter Alexander "Das Leben ist lebenswert": die Biographie''. Amalthea, 2006. External links * 1943 births 2020 deaths German film actresses German television actresses Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a Dominican Republic–Haiti border, land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the Geography of the Dominican Republic, eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin (island), Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by two sovereign states. In the Antilles, the country is the List of Caribbean islands by area, second-largest nation by area after Cuba at and List of Caribbean countries by population, second-largest by population after Haiti with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom 3.6 million reside in the Greater Santo Domingo, metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola prior to European colonization of the America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Civil War
The Dominican Civil War (), also known as the April Revolution (), took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started when civilian and military supporters of the overthrown democratically elected president Juan Bosch ousted the militarily installed president Donald Reid Cabral from office. The second coup prompted General Elías Wessin y Wessin to organize elements of the military loyal to the dictator Reid ("loyalists"), initiating an armed campaign against the "constitutionalist" rebels. Allegations of communist support for the rebels led to a United States invasion (codenamed Operation Power Pack), which later transformed into an Organization of American States occupation of the country by the Inter-American Peace Force. Although ostensibly neutral, U.S. civilian and military leaders deployed troops in a way that aided the anti-Bosch forces. Elections were held in 1966, in the aftermath of which Joaquín Balaguer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
