New Italian
Productions 1965
Italians Out
West
Continental
Film Review July 1965
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Rosanna Podesta
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Rosanna Podesta, in “I Uomini d’Oro” (Men of Gold).
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Rosanna Podesta, one of the loveliest of Italian
stars, looks really ‘fused’ in this scene from “I Uomini d’Oro” (Men of Gold)
directed by her husband Marco Vicario.
New Italian
Productions (1965)
Italians Out West
Only a few
years ago the muscle men from America were making the trek to Italy to play
mythological heroes — they are still doing a fair if slightly waning business.
Now the current vogue is for westerners, and the American actor Adam West,
known chiefiy through his TV series, has signed an Italian contract and his
first film will be a “western avventuroso-psicologcio” — “I Quattro
Inesorabiii” (he is also down for “6 Pistole per i McGregory”).
But best in
the western market seems to be Corbucci’s parody of Shakespeare — “Johnny
Hamlet”. How psychological can you get?
Sophia Loren
continues to be the truly great diva, as the Italians say. She has completed
Ustinov’s “Lady L”, and is making Stanley Donen’s “Arabesque" opposite
Gregory Peck and is down to star in two films produced by Carlo Ponti for MGM —
“Gabriella” and “Madre Cabrini".
“Gabriella”
will be directed by Henri Verneuil and is based on the romantic and adventurous
novel by Jorge Amado — it is set in Brazil.
“Madre
Cabrini” is based on the life of the “Saint of the Emigrants” and the cast will
be international.
It’s four
years since Gillo Pontecorvo made his powerful “Kapo”. Now he is working on two
films: “Magic” — an enquiry which searches out the latent potential of man all
over the world, and “The Battle of Algiers”, a tremendously tense drama of one
of the most violent episodes of modern times.
“Magic” is
being shot in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe and French director Reichenbach
is helping out in South America.
Carlo
Lizzani, who is really back in the director’s chair these days, has a fine cast
for his latest film "Delitto di lusso” — Nadja Tiller, Robert Hossein. Enrico Maria
Salerno, Daniela Bianchi and Mario Adorf.
The Spaak
sisters, Catherine and Agnes, are creating good-time girls by the dozen in the
Italian cinema — the latest is “La ragazzola” — the title and the role played
by Agnes Spaak in Giuseppe (Drlandini’s new film (he directed the successful
"La pupa”).
Like “La
pupa” it is set in a specific provincial region, this time taking in Reggio.
Emilia, Modena, Capri and Sassuolo.
Agnes Spaak
plays a young girl from a reform school who looks like taking the downward path
until . . .
Ragazzola is
Emilian dialect for a pretty and easy going young girl.
Swiss actress
Ursula Andress began her career in Rome as a photographer’s model when she was
nineteen. She began to get bit parts in films like "The Loves of Casanova”
and "An American in Rome”.
Now she is a
star playing opposite Sean Connery, Belmondo and now Marcello Mastroianni in
Elio Petri’s new film “The Tenth Victim”.
Raf Vallone
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Raf Vallone,
one of Italy’s most intelligent actors, has been a popular star since his
success in "Bitter Rice” — now he is working in American as well as European
productions. He was born in Calabria, February I7th, 1917.
Continental Film Review
magazine, London, July 1965, pp. 14-15.
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