''Short Circuit'' (Italian: ''Cortocircuito'') is a 1943 Italian
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. ...
directed by
Giacomo Gentilomo and starring
Vivi Gioi,
Umberto Melnati and
Guglielmo Barnabò. The film was made at the
Pisorno Studios in
Tirrenia
Tirrenia is a frazione (parish) of Pisa, Italy with a population of 3,112 inhabitants. Immersed in the pine forest of the "Litorale Pisano" and in the coast of Ligurian Sea (even if the name of the village refers to Tyrrhenian Sea, in Italian ''Ma ...
. It is one of several films considered as a possible precursor to the
giallo
In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, a ...
genre.
[Moliterno p.150]
Plot
Cast
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Vivi Gioi as Cristina Redy
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Umberto Melnati as Ugo Redy, suo marito
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Guglielmo Barnabò as Il gionalista Saverio Funk
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Bianca Doria as Eva Fredy
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Lauro Gazzolo as L'editore Isidoro Storch
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Gilda Marchiò
Gilda Marchiò (1884–1954) was an Italian theatre actress.Bassnett & Lorch p.86 She also appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, her performances including a small role in the 1942 propaganda film '' Odessa in Flames''.
Selected filmography ...
as La signora Ipanoff
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Giacomo Moschini as Il commissario Plunk
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Egisto Olivieri
Egisto Olivieri (1880–1962) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than forty films during his career including '' The Little School Mistress'' (1934).Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter d ...
as Il professore Ermanno Heker
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Gualtiero Isnenghi Gualtiero is the name of:
* Gualtiero Bassetti (born 1942), Italian prelate
* Gualtiero Calboli (born 1932), Italian classicist and linguist
* Gualtiero De Angelis (1899–1980), Italian actor and voice actor
* Gualtiero Driussi (1920–1996), Ita ...
as Il dottor Besson
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Mario Besesti as Gruner, l'aiuntante del commissario
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Enzo Biliotti as Il barone Von Springher
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Dina Perbellini
Dina Perbellini (14 January, 1901–2 April, 1984) was an Italian actress. She appeared in over sixty films and television series between 1934 and 1969 and was also a leading voice actress, dubbing foreign films for release in Italy. She made her ...
as La contessa
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Mirka Bereny as L'infermiera
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Dino Di Luca as Il primo giocatore di scacchi
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Gerardo Frossi as Un domestico della clinica
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Luisa Garella as La direttrice della casa editrice "Centauro"
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Fausto Guerzoni
Fausto Guerzoni (1904–1967) was an Italian film actor.Freire-Medeiros p.193 A character actor, he appeared in Italian films in supporting roles from the mid-1930s.
Selected filmography
* '' Cavalry'' (1936)
* ''The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) ...
as Il secondo giocatore di scacchi
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Guido Notari
Guido Notari (10 May 1893 - 21 January 1957) was an Italian actor and radio presenter. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1939 to 1956.
Filmography
References
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1893 births
1957 deaths
Italian male film actors ...
as Il professore Muller
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Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il commendatore nella clinica
References
Bibliography
* Moliterno, Gino. ''A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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1940s thriller films
1943 films
Italian black-and-white films
Italian thriller films
1940s Italian-language films
Films directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
Films shot at Tirrenia Studios
1940s Italian films
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