''Inspector Vargas'' (Italian: ''L'ispettore Vargas'', Spanish: ''El inspector Vargas'') is a 1940 Italian-Spanish

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by

Gianni Franciolini Gianni Franciolini (1 June 1910 – 1 January 1960) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959. Life and career Born in Florence, in 1929 he moved to Paris to study journalism; there he came in ...

and Félix Aguilera and starring Giulio Donadio, Olga Solbelli and Mariella Lotti.Hochkofler p.37 It was made at

Cinecittà Cinecittà Studios (; Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constru ...

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, and released in separate Italian and Spanish versions. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Salvo D'Angelo.

Cast

* Giulio Donadio as Ispettore Vargas * Olga Solbelli as Signora Douwe, sua ex moglie * Mariella Lotti as Irene, sua figlia * Lauro Gazzolo as Dedè, il landrucolo *

Checco Rissone Francesco "Checco" Rissone (7 July 1909 – 26 September 1985) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Rissone was born in Turin, the younger brother of the more famous Giuditta Rissone, Giuditta. He debuted on stage ...

as Roulis * Luis Hurtado as L'industriale Donald * Massimo Serato *

Maria Dominiani Maria "Mariuccia" Dominiani (10 May 1913 – 10 December 1993) was an Italian actress. Biography Dominiani made her debut on screen in the 1936 film '' Joe the Red'', dedicating herself also to variety shows and photo comics in the following de ...

* Miguel del Castillo * Armando Migliari * Lina Bacci * Bella Starace Sainati * Fernando Aguirre *

Armando Calvo Armando Calvo (25 December 1919 – 6 July 1996) was a Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor. His father was Juan Calvo Domenech, a Spanish actor and his mother was Minerva Lespier, a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican. Calvo worked in Spain, Italy, ...

* Juan Calvo * Nicolás D. Perchicot * Carlo Mariotti * Gianni Lorenzon * Silvana Jerussi * Armando Furlai * Anna Canonico

References

Bibliography

* Matilde Hochkofler. ''Anna Magnani''. Gremese Editore, 2001.

External links

* {{Gianni Franciolini Spanish crime films 1940 films 1940s multilingual films Italian crime films 1940 crime films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Gianni Franciolini Italian films based on plays Italian black-and-white films Italian multilingual films Cifesa films Films shot at Cinecittà Studios Spanish black-and-white films Spanish multilingual films 1940s Italian films