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Women In Cell Block 7
''Diario segreto da un carcere femminile'' (International title: ''Women in Cell Block 7'', UK title: ''Love in a Woman's Prison'') is a 1973 Italian women in prison film written and directed by Rino Di Silvestro. It represents the directorial debut of Di Silvestro and the first Italian women in prison film. Cast * Anita Strindberg as Hilda * Eva Czemerys as Mother S. * Jenny Tamburi as Daniela Vinci * Cristina Gaioni as Religious Prisoner * Bedy Moratti as Pyromaniac * Massimo Serato as The Warden * Elisa Mainardi as Prison Matron * Olga Bisera as Gerda * Valeria Fabrizi as Napolitana * Paola Senatore as Musumeci * Roger Browne as Inspector Weil * Franco Fantasia as Chief Inspector * Umberto Raho as Daniela's Lawyer * 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 da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rino Di Silvestro
Salvatore Di Silvestro, best known as Rino Di Silvestro (30 January 1932 - 3 October 2009) was an Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Di Silvestro became first known thanks to ''Op bop pop nip'', a play that he wrote, directed and in whose original production he starred: it was continuously represented at the Teatro delle Muse in Rome from 1962 to 1966. After having collaborated uncredited to the screenplays of a number of Genre fiction, genre films in 1973, he made his debut as director with ''Women in Cell Block 7'', a film which is regarded as the first Italian women in prison film. Selected filmography * ''Women in Cell Block 7'' (1973) * ''Prostituzione'' (1974) * ''Deported Women of the SS Special Section'' (1976) * ''Werewolf Woman'' (1976) * ''Baby Love'' (1979) * ''Bello di mamma'' (1980) * ''Hanna D. - The Girl from Vondel Park'' (1984) * ''The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra'' (1985) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Browne
Roger Browne Jr. (April 13, 1930 – October 11, 2024) was an American actor and voice artist, best known for his work in Italian cinema. He was a star of peplum and Eurospy films popular in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Browne was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 13, 1930. He enrolled in pilot training while serving in the U.S. Air Force, flying the AT-6 trainer aircraft. Browne completed 64 hours of training, including 20 hours of solo flight but was unable to finish due to airsickness and related symptoms of Manifestations of Apprehension (MOA). Career In a telephone interview with ''Monster Kid Radio'', Browne said whilst he was studying acting and getting bit roles he supported himself as a physical therapist. One of his clients was going to Rome and asked Roger if he would come with him to carry on his work. As the 1960 Summer Olympics were under way, Roger eagerly accepted the offer. He remained in Europe where he was discovered and offered a role i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Prison Films
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1970s Exploitation Films
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Italian Prison Films
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1973 Films
This page covers significant events of the year 1973 in film. Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Studios celebrated their 50th anniversaries. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: Outside North America The highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross revenue The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1973. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. The year's highest-grossing actor worldwide was Hong Kong martial arts film star Bruce Lee, who died the same year. Events *March – '' Five Fingers of Death'' is released in the United States and is a surprise success starting a kung fu film craze in North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 businessman in the marble industry and a housewife. When she was a child, her parents separated and she moved to Castelpoggio, another of Carrara's frazione and her mother's birthplace. Due to her mother's economic difficulties, at ten years of age, young old Gabriella was entrusted to the college of the Sisters of Capulet, in Carrara. At fifteen years old she started to work, including as a pizza chef and a bartender. Career Giorgelli made her film debut in 1960, in a very minor role in Luigi Comencini's '' Everybody Go Home''. After winning several local and regional beauty contests, in 1961 she was among the finalists of Miss Italia, and thanks to her participation in the popular beauty pageant she started to attract a significant me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Raho
Umberto Raho (4 June 1922 – 9 January 2016) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Bari, the son of an Italian father and a Bulgarian mother, Raho graduated in philosophy and then, immediately after the war, he debuted on stage. While theater was his main activity, Raho was also a very prolific film character actor, with over one hundred credits starting from 1948. He was also active in television films and series. Death Raho died on 9 January 2016 in Anzio, Italy, at the age of 93. Selected filmography * ''Fantasmi del mare'' (1948) - Sottocapo Luigi Serra * '' Queen of the Nile'' (1961) - Zeton, Priest * '' Duel of Champions'' (1961) - Grand Priest * ''Gold of Rome'' (1961) - Rabbi Beniamino * '' A Difficult Life'' (1961) - Collaborator of the publisher (uncredited) * ''Charge of the Black Lancers'' (1962) - Un Altro Membro del Consiglio * '' Seven Seas to Calais'' (1962) - King Philip of Spain * '' Imperial Venus'' (1962) - Kerversau * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Fantasia
Franco Fantasia (5 March 1924 – 10 November 2002) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and fencing master. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1951 to 2002. He was the brother of actor Andrea Fantasia. Illness and death September 29, 2002, Fantasia announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Fantasia died of a heart attack on November 10, 2002, at Rome, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ... at the age of 78. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fantasia, Franco 1924 births 2002 deaths People from Rhodes Italian male film actors Greek people of Italian descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Senatore
Paola Senatore (born 9 November 1949) is an Italian retired film actress. Biography Born in Rome, Paola Senatore worked in Italian genre films during the 1970s, including poliziotteschi, commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films. These included cult films such as '' Ricco the Mean Machine'' (1973), '' Story of a Cloistered Nun'' (1973), '' The Flower with the Petals of Steel'' (1973), ''The Killer Reserved Nine Seats'' (1974), ''Salon Kitty'' (1976), ''Emanuelle in America'' (1977), '' Images in a Convent'' (1979) and Umberto Lenzi's cannibal film '' Eaten Alive!'' (1980). In the mid-1980s, after two soft-core erotic films directed by Joe D'Amato and because of drug problems and pregnancy, she accepted starring in pornographic magazines and in a hard-core film, ''Non stop... sempre buio in sala''. Her film career ended in September 1985 when she was arrested for possession and trafficking of drugs. Partial filmography *''Robin Hood: the Invincible Archer'' (1970) *''A.A.A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Strindberg
Anita Strindberg (born 19 June 1937) is a Swedish former acting, actress who appeared in numerous Italy, Italian ''giallo'' films in the 1970s. Strindberg appeared as Anita Edberg in two Swedish films in the late 1950s. She started her career in gialli with Lucio Fulci's ''A Lizard in a Woman's Skin'' in 1971 and starred in her first lead role that same year, in the Sergio Martino-directed ''The Case of the Scorpion's Tail''. In 1972, she starred in three more gialli: Aldo Lado's ''Who Saw Her Die?'', Martino's ''Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key'' and ''Tropic of Cancer'' alongside Anthony Steffen. After the early 1970s, Strindberg acted in many types of Film genre, genre films: a women in prison film ''Women in Cell Block 7'' (1973); the ''The Exorcist (film), Exorcist''-like horror film ''The Antichrist (film), The Antichrist'' (1974); and the ''poliziotteschi'' film ''Almost Human (1974 film), Almost Human'' (1974), directed by Umberto Lenzi. Her last film wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
