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‘Twenty lashes don’t do any good. Give him [Pietro] thirty.’ – Haroun (Leonard Penn). Director William Castle’s 1954 romantic adventure The Saracen Blade is based on Frank Yerby’s novel and stars Ricardo Montalban as Pietro […]
The 1991 British drama film Enchanted April is an enchanting version of the sentimental tale based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel, with stylish acting by Golden Globe-winning Joan Plowright and Miranda Richardson. The 1991 British […]
Director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s colourful, lively and fast-paced 1955 dubbed Italian romantic adventure swashbuckler The Golden Falcon [Il Falco d’Oro] is set in Sienna in the 17th century. The story is about two rival families […]
Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 black and white double bill drama L’Amore [Ways of Love] [Woman] finds him leaving his usual area of neo-realism far behind for this heated, actress’s tour-de-force feature with two distinct episodes. […]
Director Ettore Scola’s 1985 Macaroni [Maccheroni] is a subtle, well-cooked comedy-drama from Italy, with yummy performances from Jack Lemmon as Robert Traven, a grouchy American businessman back in Naples for the first time in four […]
Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s thematically linked 1953 anthology drama I Vinti [The Vanquished] stars Jean-Pierre Mocky, Etchika Choureau, Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Patrick Barr, Fay Compton and Eduardo Ciannelli. It tells three stories about well-off […]
Packed with comic passion, Pietro Germi’s thoroughly entertaining 1961 Italian commedia nera [black comedy] film Divorce Italian Style [Divorzio all’Italiana] stars the indispensable Marcello Mastroianni as a poverty-stricken Sicilian aristocrat, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, who wants […]