Acid Goodbye, Mother! - variety communications
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Acid Goodbye, Mother! - variety communications
Acid Goodbye, Mother! (Acid - Delirio dei sensi) (Addio Mamma!) Directed by Jacobs Irvin - Cast: Martino Miranda, Pandolfi Elio,Steni Antonella - Italy - 92’ - 1967 - COL. Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Scotese Giuseppe - Cast: Thompson Budd, Caruso Bruna, Andreoli Annabella - Italy - 92’ - 1968 - COL Two American experts trace a picture of the protest movement and raise the topic of hallucinogenic substances. The film illustrates this phenomena with three different episodes. The singer Patrizia (wife of Franco, a convict serving) has an affair with Paolo; they have a child. Franco escapes from prison and blackmails his wife who loses her lover and the child. In despair she becomes a nun, ans is put in charge a kindergarten where, by chance, Paolo enrolls the child. After some time, Franco seeks refuge there. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Goodbye forever! Hotel of absentees (Addio per sempre!) (Albergo degli assenti (L')) Directed by Matarazzo Raffaello - Cast: Candiani Carla, D'Ancora Maurizio, Pilotto Camillo - Italy - 91’ - 1939 - B/W Directed by Costa Mario - Cast: Smith Costance, Del Frate Marisa, Raimondi Sergio - Italy - 95’ - 1958 - B/W A Napolitan salesman, married with children finds out that his wife is unfaithful to him and kills a long absence he returns to save his daughter's life. Criminal gangsters have kidnapped several people and are keeping them prisoners at a place known as the "Hotel of Absentees". The prisoners are burnt to death in a fire started by one of them who had gone mad. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Twentieth-century angels Angel of the Alps (The) (Angeli del 2000 (Gli)) (Angelo delle alpi (L')) Directed by Campogalliani Carlo - Cast: Boni Luisella, Farnese Alberto, Sininberghi Gino - Italy - 93’ - 1957 - B/W Directed by Ranieri Honil - Cast: Rossi Drago Eleonora, Davoli Ivano, Citti Franco- Italy - 99’ - 1972 - COL. In spite of having a mistress, a drug addict continues to be a fond of a schoolgirl who reminds him of his first love. He realizes the squalor his life during a violent fight between rival gangs of drug peddlars. But he dies just when he determines to give up drugs. Based on a novel by Carolina Invernizzi, the film is about a foundling girl for whom the parish priest finds a job at the home of a countess. There she meets a rich banker who falls in love with her. After various ups and downs of life she meets her father whom she had never met. He is the countess' husband. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Anna, forgive me Jailbirds (Anna, perdonami) (Avanzi di galera) Directed by Cottafavi Vittorio - Cast: Chiari Walter, Lualdi Antonella, Basehart Richard - Italy - 92’ - 1955 - B/W Directed by Boccia Tanio - Cast: Fiorelli Aldo, Merlini Marisa, Jachino Silvana - Italy - 75’ - 1953 - B/W A man is taken to the United States as a prisoner of war. He stays there and gets married. When his wife dies he returns to Italy and meets all the women with whom he had been in love, except Anna who died while giving birth to their daughter. After being jailed for a number of years, three prisoners are freed. Each one follows his way but only two of them after various difficulties succeed in starting a new life with the help of the women they love. While the third one will not make it. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-1 Kiss of death (The) Amalfi boatman (The) (Bacio di una morta (Il)) (Barcaiolo di Amalfi (Il)) Directed by Roli Mino - Cast: Vitale Maria, Marzi Franca, Celano Guido - Italy - 96’ - 1954 - B/W Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Brignone Guido - Cast: Belmonte Virginia, Canale Gianna Maria, Trent Peter - Italy - 92’ - 1949 - B/W A girl is in love with a revolutionary whom she believes dead, she marries a count who betrays her then poisons her. The revolutionary goes to see his beloved's body. The young man's kiss awakens her from her cataleptic state. The count repents and dies for his country. The story revolves round a boutman who has robbed and killed a man. When he is found out he is sent to prison. His sister elopes with her lover but leaves him when he refuses to acknowledge the pregnant woman's child as his own. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Goodbye Napoli! Love and revenge in Naples (Addio Napoli!) (Napoli storia d'amore e di vendetta) Directed by M. Bianchi Cast: M. Fiore R. Harrison P. Pitagora Italy - 98’ - 1979 - COL Directed by Roberto Montero - Cast: Giorgio de Lullo, Tamara Lees, Maria Grazia Francia - Italy - 88’ - 1954 - B/W Salvatore is the victim of the desperation of a woman, Iolanda, who is about to deliver him to his killers. He is allowed to live, however. He grows up on the streets and soon learns of his true origins thanks to a series of incredible circumstances. This makes him embark on a new life. In Naples before the war begins, an English man falls in love with a low class girl. His brother, who accuses her family of robbery, is against the love story. The real guilty is his lover who becomes a spy after the war explodes and blames the roman family of all her mischiefs. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Heart of a stranger (The) Calamo (Cuore forestiero) (Calamo) Directed by Pirri Massimo - Cast: Capolicchio Lino, Moriconi Valeria, Reggiani Aldo - Italy - 127’ - 1976 - COL. Directed by Armando Fizzarotti - Cast: Piero Lulli, Maria Mazzai Italy - 79’ - 1953 - B/W It is the story of a thief who wants to change his life and of his girl friend who, after many ups and downs, becomes a nun and dies redeemed. Riccardo belongs to an impoverished family of nobles and is studying at a Swiss religious college where he is being pushed towards a confused mystic vocation. His half-sister, Stefania, with whom he has had an incestuous relationship, announces her forthcoming marriage. Riccardo tries to conquer hem, but in vain. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Mandinga Dawn close (Mandinga) (Si chiude all’alba) Directed by Mario Pinzauti Cast: Antonio Gismondo, Serafino Profumo, Maria Rosaria Riuzzi - Italy - 92’ - 1976 - COL Directed by Giannini Nino - Cast: Doro Mino, Paolieri Germana Italy - 80’ - 1944 - B/W An intricate story of death and love. Lucien and Lola, two young lovers, turn an abandoned house into a cabaret night club. Their relationship is now strictly business, until one day a girl comes into their lives and Lucien falls in love with her - Rossella. DRAMA - Versions available: EN-SP-IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-2 Heartfelt song (The) Black angels (Canzone del cuore (La)) (Angeli negri) Directed by Joselito Rodriguez - Cast: Petro Infante, Emilia Guin, Rita Montanez - 1955 Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Campogalliani Campo - Cast: Vitale Milly, Farnese Alberto, Merlini Marisa - Italy - 83’ - 1955 - B/W Trouble and grief of a widow with an ailing daughter and a despotic mother-in-law. A mexican girl who hates colour people thinks of being an orphan: her mother, a black woman who is her governess, believes it is better this way. The girl despise against colour people will stop only at her mother's death. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Heaven weeps Spiralling mist (Cielo piange (Il)) (Spirale di nebbia (Una)) Directed by Visconti Eriprando - Cast: Berti M., Giorg E., Satta Flores S. - Italy - 107’ - 1977 - Col. Directed by Della Santa Enzo - Cast: Menna Antonio, Rumor Cesare, Santi Delia - Italy - 100’ - 1962 - B/W The story is about the son of a thief who has died in prison. The boy leaves his native town together with his pregnant girlfriend, so as to get away from memories and gossip. But his father's accomplices search for him because they want him to tell them the hiding-place of the stolen goods of the man's last robbery. An unhappily married man shoots his wife during a hunt and kills her. The investigating judge questions the people close to the accusated and finds many problems in their marriages, extra - marital affairs and ill - concealed hatred. Since the judge’s own parents had many problems, he finds he is unable to come to a verdict on the matter. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Twilight Angels of the ring (The) (Crepuscolo) (Angeli dalle mani bendate..) Directed by Oscar Brazzi - Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Patricia Webley, Tiberio Mitri - Italy - 90’ - 1976 - COL. Directed by Paolucci Alex - Cast: Ralston Reda, Nobile Diso, Paolucci Alex - Italy - 100’ - 1961 - B/W The film is about the tragic love story of an Italian girl and a German officer during the Second World War. The woman remains alone and her only company is that of a little orphan boy who is entrusted to her. A journalist is going to make a filmed inquiry on boxing. But fear and solidarity in the boxing circle force him to stop his inquiry even though he has found out swindlings, corruption and even murders. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Killers Heartless woman (Uccisori (Gli)) (Femmina senza cuore) Directed by Borraccetti Renato - Cast: Quirici Elena, Francia Maria G., Celano Guido - Italy - 84’ - 1952 - B/W Directed by Fabrizio Taglioni Cast: Genevieve Audrey, Isarco Ravaioli, Rino Bolognesi - Italy - 91’ - 1977 - COL A young man is accused of murder and theft and flees to Venezuela. His girlfriend and her brother catch up with him and find him with the loot. The real culprit, however, is someone else… Nannina is in love with Vincenzo who is poor and goes to Belgium to make his fortune. Nannina marries a rich elderly man. Vincenzo returns from Belgium and the passion flames up again. Nannina loses her head and wants to kill her husband; however, she is killed by an idiot servant whom she had always rejected. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-3 Raped on the sands Blood legacy (Violentata sulla sabbia) (Retaggio di sangue) Directed by Max Calandri Cast: Roberto Lauri, Anna di Lorenzo Italy - 92’ - 1956 - B/W Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Cerrato Renzo - Cast: Andrè Carole, Infanti Angelo, Solinas M. - Italy - 86’ - 1971 - COL. A girl feels no love because of a shock she had as a child when she saw her mother raped and killed. During a holiday in Sardinia she lets herself be raped and so gets over her inhibitions. A nobleman loves his young ward who rejects him in favour of his farmer. The nobleman then kills the farmer. Twenty years later there is another family tragedy: the nobleman’s two sons fall in love with the daughter of the ward and farmer. In a story of jealousy, one of the two men dies and the other marries the girl. DRAMA - Versions available: IT-FR DRAMA - Versions available: IT Saprofitous (The) Devil's crime (The) (Saprofita (Il)) (Delitto del diavolo (Il) Directed by Cervi Tonino - Cast: Politoff Haydée, Monti Silvia, Stuart Ewelyn - Italy - 90’ - 1970 - COL. Directed by Sergio Nasca - Cast: Valeria Moriconi, Al Cliver, Janet Agren - Italy - 106’ - 1974 - COL. Uncapable of expressing himself correctly because of an infant trauma, a young man is obliged to decline the vocacy to priesthood and is hired as a driver by a baroness. He goes to Lourdes with her son, but a tremendous fight between them ends in tragedy. David is a lover of freedom and travels the world on a motorbike. He encounters the Devil disguised as a man who sends him to a house where three whitches are to be found in the form of three beautiful young women. They excite him and satisfy him sexually, but when he wishes to regain his freedom and continue his journey, they kill him. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Destiny Out off ( Destino) (Cerimonia dei sensi (La)) Directed by D’Agostino Antonio - Cast: Grassi Ornella, Pugi Franco - Italy - 86’ - 1979 - COL. Directed by Di Gianni Enzo - Cast: Nova Eva, Pica Tina, Vitale Milly - Italy - 85’ - 1951 - B/W A girl from a respectable family has an affair with a sailor and gives birth to a d a u g h t e r. T h e g i r l ' s f a t h e r disapproves of the marriage and persuades her to leave the sailor. Many years later the sailor finds the girl but he is killed by a jealous girlfriend who accuses the girl of murder. Seriously hurt, a stuntman dreams he is Jesus and relives certain episodes of the Gospels in a modern context. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT-SP Loved to love you Road to Salina (E’ stato bello amarti) (Quando il sole scotta) Directed by Sala Adimaro - Cast: Giordana Andrea, Lange Claudie, Serato Massimo - Italy - 92’ -1968 -Col. Directed by Georges Lautner - Cast:Rita Hayworth, Robert Walker, Mismy Farmer - Italy - 95’ - 1971 - COL. A youth leaves his family and girlfriend to move to the city. Here, he becomes the lover of a woman who leaves ger industrialist boyfriend and easy life to stay with him. However, the woman dies and the youth goes back to his girlfriend. The owner of a gas station mistakes a vagabond for her son who desappeard many years before. He takes advantage of the situation until his presumed sister appears. A neurotic young woman who had an incestuous affair with her brother in the past. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-4 Final illusion (The) Other man's wife (The) (Ultima illusione (L’) - Questa nostra gente) (Donna dell'altro (La)) Directed by Vicas Victor - Cast: Masina Giulietta, Basehart Richard, Raddatz Carl - Italy -110’ - 1959 - B/W Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Duse Vittorio - Cast: Collard Jacqueline, Lulli Piero, Rivelli Luisa - Italy - 90’ - 1954 - B/W Sentimental story of an old retired accountant who gets over his loneliness by going to live with a baker’s family. He finds the joy of life once more, but one night he has a heart attack. Erdne leads a truly unhappy life with her husband. She falls in love with her neighbour, and is ready to elope with him, except that he is wanted by the police. After many years Erdne's daughter leaves home. Once more she does not succeed in parting from her husband. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Images Chained woman (Tempo d’immagini) (Femmina incatenata) Directed by Sala Adimaro - Cast: Di Grazia U. - Giancarlo P. Antinori P. - Mele D. - Italy - 80’ - 1970 - COL. Directed by Martin G. D. - Cast: Randi Lori, Roero Manuel, Agus Gianni - Italy - 92’ - 1949 - B/W Joe is the hero who has been sent to face the hell in Vietnam. Then, suddenly, three days of military leave. Three days to forget and try to love. This seems to be possible at first, but... A sculptor, Manuel, has been trying for a long time to make a statue of the Chained Woman which represents the human condition as a prisoner of material elements. During his absence, one of his young students, Lori, succeeds in making the statue. But, by now, Manuel is furious and, in an attempt to destroy the statue, kills Lori. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Faddija - The law of vengeance Flames on the sea (Faddija - La legge della vendetta) (Fiamme sul mare) Directed by Montero Roberto Bianc - Cast: Rossi Luisa, Toso Otello, Solbelli Olga - Italy - 85’ - 1949 - B/W Directed by Waszynsky Michael - Cast: Ninchi Carlo, Maltagliati Evi, Jachino Silvana - Italy - 79’ - 1947 - B/W A peasant causes a girl to become pregnant; the girl's father decides to take his revenge. While he is on the point of carrying out his plan, the girl gives birth to the child: the event is so dramatic as to reconcile everybody. A shipowner devoid of scruples takes out an insurance policy on a ship that he intends to sink by simulating an accident. His daughter, who is in love with the commander, tries to warn him but ends up in the flames. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Pink Veil (The) Catalyst (The) (Macchia Rosa (Una)) (Plagio) Directed by Capogna Sergio - Cast: Medici Mita, Noury Alan Italy - 100’ - 1969 - COL. Directed by Enzo Muzii - Cast: G. Giannini V. Moriconi O. De Santis - Italy - 98’ - 1970 - COL A young man comes back from a travel in India and doesn’t feel good in the caotic life of every day:he has in front of him the vision of an Indian man dead of hunger covered with a pink veil and abandoned to the rivers of Gange.He decides to return to his job of documentarist,conscious of the human reality of million of indians. Angela and Massimo meet Guido an orphan who has come into money. The rich boy lends them his apartment. Having had an unhappy childhood, he tries to extract a little happiness from the young lovers. When Massimo finds his girlfriend in the arms of his friend, he leaves despite Guido's assurance that he loves them both. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN DR-5 Flames on the lagoon Daughter of the Madonna (The) (Fiamme sulla laguna) (Figlia della Madonna (La)) Directed by Montero Roberto Bianchi - Cast: Lari Edmea, Landi Aldo - Italy - 90’ - 1949 - B/W Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Scotese Giuseppe M. - Cast: Padovani Lea, Cortese Leonardo, Gazzolo Lauro - Italy - 84’ - 1949 - B/W This is the love story between a sailor's orphan daughter and an admiral's son. For a short period they are separated by misunderstanding and the girl is about to become engaged to another boy. Then they are reunited after a dramatic explanation. And so the admiral openly expresses his disapproval and the girl commits suicide. The young man dies with her. An orphan girl marries an honest young man, but after a misunderstanding, is abandoned by him. She is forced to support herself as best she can, but when she gives birth to a child, her husband comes back, realises how morally courageous she is and ask her to forgive him for leaving her. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Never ending love (A) Carrier (The) (Amore senza fine (Un)) (Vetturale del Moncenisio (Il)) Directed by Brignone Guido - Cast: Cegani Elisa, Lupi R. Italy - 92 - 1956 - B/W. Directed by Luis Knaut-Mario Terribile - Cast: Memmo Carotenuto, Luisella Boni, Alberto Farnese - Italy - 90’ - 1958 A young engineer Danieli, meets Gloria at Terminillo and falls in love with her. But the girl dissapears. He finds her in the house of a well known surgeon. The circumstances leads him to discover that Gloria is seriously ill. After being operated the girl recovers and plans to get married to her engineer. In the nineteenth century a carrier is thought dead and his wife remarries to a nobleman. The man, however, is secretly scheming to come into possession of an inheritance but is found out and kills himself. The carrier finds his wife and daughter once more. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Never with women People like that (Mai con le donne) (Gente così) Directed by Cerchio Fernando - Cast: Gioi Vivi, Rimoldi Adriano Italy - 96’ - 1950 - B/W Directed by Fago Giovanni - Cast: Pieroni A. Baseart J. Italy - 95’ - 1985 - COL. Gini Chelli is a small - time businessman in textiles who leads a normal life and has many dreams. He idolises the beautiful Liza, his childhood first love, who is now a famous woman. One day, a poster announces her arrival into town. A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns to the town. He is mortally wounded by the frontier guards and they get married just before he dies. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Days of blood Youth on trial (Giorni di sangue) (Gioventù alla sbarra) Directed by Ferruccio Cerio - Cast: Albertazzi Giorgio, Scala Delia, Stoppa Paolo - Italy - 88’ - 1954 - B/W Directed by Gicca Enzo - Cast: White Grace, Hudson Gary, Garko Gianni - Italy - 90’ - 1968 - COL. A nobleman kills his rival in love conquests. His father is able to keep it quiet, until a young teacher helps the village to revolt against the despot. Franco is fed up with being poor and so accepts the offer of a friend who lives by thieving and swindling. In fact, Franco makes money but loses his girl friend's love. Even so, she is the only one who is willing to help him when he is in serious trouble. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-6 Great goodbye (The) Shame on you ! (Grande addio (Il)) (Vergogna schifosi !) Directed by Severino Mauro - Cast: Bisacco Roberto, Branco Marila, Capolicchio Lino - Italy - 97’ - 1969 - COL. Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Polselli Renato - Cast: Rossi Luisa, Maggio Dante, De Matteis Angelo - Italy - 96’ - 1954 - B/W John, a negro, returns as a priest to the city where he had been stationed as an officer during the war. There he finds the son who was born as a result of his affair with a local girl. The little mulatto has found an adoptive father. John would like to take him back, but then changes his mind. Three rich young men are blackmailed by a mystery person who sends them recorded messages and accuses them of having caused the death of a German during an orgy. Once they find out that the culprit is an artist friend of theirs, the three kill him only to find that it was not real blackmail but only a joke. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN-FR Island of the lonely women (The) Questioning (Isola delle donne sole (L') ) (Interrogatorio (L')) Directed by De Sisti Vittorio - Cast:Lev Benjamin, Gozlino Paolo, Skay Brigitte- Italy - 97’ - 1970 - COL. Directed by Brabant Charles - Cast:Vallone Raf, Robinson Madeleine, Noel Magali - Italy - 90’ - 1957 - B/W Based on a play by Ugo Betti. A man upsets the apparent stability of three women who live in an isolated farmhouse on a desolate island. In a crescendo of emotional tensions, each of them wants the man for herself. One of the three wins. But only temporarily. A young man is found guilty of murder even though innocent. To put an end to the police harassment, he admits his guilt, and ends this useless torture. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN Law accuses me (The) Hyena in the safe (A) (Legge mi incolpa (La)) (Jena in cassaforte (Una)) Directed by Canevari Cesare - Cast: Nobokov Dimitri, Creisberger Marie Louise, Salvador Ben - Italy - 98’ - 1968 - COL. Directed by Couzinet Emile - Cast:Morlay Gaby, Seigner Louis, Tozzi Fausto - Italy - 85’ - 1956 -B/W A country girl who has moved to town falls in love with a sailor. He goes away after a brawl and seems to have forgotten her; she give birth to a stillborn child and, so as not to lose the man she loves, she kidnaps a little orphan. When the sailor returns she is absolved and the parents agree to their marriage. Six burglars meet at a secluded villa for the purpose of sharing a loot of diamonds. Each one of them is a killer and then a victim in a merciless conflict to have the treasure for himself. Jeanine survives the massacre but discovers that she has a handful of false diamonds. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Lovebirds Rocco's fists (the) (Lovebirds - Una strana voglia d'amare) (Pugni di Rocco (I)) Directed by Caiano Mario - Cast: Auger Claudine, Alfonsi Lydia, Sbragia Giancarlo - Italy - 94’ - 1970 - COL. Directed by Artale Lorenzo - Cast: Di Bella Fausto, Fragalà Franco, Torosh Rosita - Italy - 96’ - 1972 - COL. Two couples are caught in a storm and seek shelter in a sumptuous country house inhabited by a couple and a mysterious butler. The travellers are worried by the strange atmosphere of the house and indulge in a series of erotic games. Only one of the women refuses to take part. She runs away but her husband kills her. An aggressive peasant ends up in prison after hitting a debtor. The peasant's father is a quiet man and drives his son away from home. The peasant becomes a landowner's "bodyguard" and makes many Mafia enemies. He succeeds in getting rid of many enemies but in the end has to reckon with the police. DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-7 Madonna of the roses Madunnella (Madonna delle rose) (Madunnella) Directed by Grassi Ernesto - Cast: Lari Edmea, Landi Aldo Italy - 90’ - 1947 - B/W Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Di Gianni Enzo - Cast: Nova Eva, Vicario Marco, Ninchi Ave- Italy - 109’ - 1954 - B/W Renato and Maria are in financial difficulties; they meet another couple, Filippo and Irene, who live by their wits. Renato is enticed by Irene and is killed by Filippo while Maria loses her memory; she regains her memory beside her daughter while she is on the point of falling into a precipice not far from the shrine of the Madonna of the Roses. Don Michele, boss of a smuggling ring and partner of Maria's father known as the little Madonna, tries to rape the girl when he discovers that her father has stolen a large sum of money to use as her dowry. The girl saves her father from suicide and proves him innocent of the murder of Don Michele. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Violent kids of Rome Malaspina (Ragazzi della Roma violenta (I)) (Malaspina) Directed by Savino Renato - Cast: Businari C., Crespi Sarah, Milli Gino - Italy - 90’ - 1976 - COL. Directed by Fizzarotti Armando - Cast: Rol Vera, Landi Buffi Aldo, Genovese Rino - Italy - 90’ - 1947 - B/W The film is based on real events. It tells of a youth from a well - to - do neighbourhood of Rome who leads a right - wing political group. He is ruthless with his enemies: he pushes one girl to suicide, rapes and kills another, tortures an anarchist teacher and organizes a robbery. He finally dies in a car accident. Andrea goes to prison for wounding his rival, Gaetano. When he is freed, he finds out that his girlfriend has accepted the favors of many men. In fact, Malaspina has not forgotten her first love, refuses Gaetano's offer of marriage and goes into a Convent. Andrea is confronted by Gaetano and kills him in self defense. DRAMA - Versions available: IT-FR DRAMA - Versions available: IT Underworld Metempsycho (Malavita) (Metempsyco) Directed by Boccacci Antonio - Cast: Micatoni Adriano, Mariani Marco, Alberti Annie - Italy - 95’ - 1963 - B/W Directed by Furlan Rate - Cast: Pierreux Jacqueline, Dassy Angelo, Nicodemi Aldo - Italy - 90’ - 1951 - B/W A gangster's girlfriend seduces his brother before he commits a crime and the two brothers become violent rivals. They fight and one of them is killed. The girl, to avoid getting involved, gives the murderer away to the Police. She is then killed in the crossfire with the Police in an ambush. In a frightful derelict castle, a mysterious being kills two imprudent girls who are sightseeing. In the meantime, in a nearby village, a girl has a nightmare in which she experiences this killing (and the preceding ones). Her father takes her to the castle where the mistery is cleared up. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Michelino Cucchiarella Ghost from the past (Michelino Cucchiarella) (Nebbie sul mare) Directed by H. Hinrich-M. Pagliero Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Otello Toso, Gustav Diesel - Italy - 95’ - 1944 - B/W Directed by Longo Tiziano - Cast: Mazzei Maurizio, Faria Celso Italy - 90’ - 1964 - B/W A boy escapes from an orphanage and starts to search for his mother. After various adventures in a circus and among beggars, he dies on his mother's grave. A man kills his creditor and flees. His wife tries to start her life all over again by marrying an honest doctor. One day, however, her former husband reappears, but soon dies, leaving the woman peacefully with her doctor husband. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-8 Nennella Revenge (Nennella) (Revenge) Directed by Tosini Pino - Cast: Hunter Thomas, Paul Gloria Italy - 87’ - 1969 - COL. Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by May Renato - Cast: Beghi Luisella, Rol Vera, Palermitani Piero - Italy - 90’ - 1948 - B/W A Neapolitan who had emigrated to America leaves a huge fortune to his illegitimate son who lives in Naples. A man and his mistress, who are two scoundrels from America, find the heir, Alberto, who is an artist and a musician, and decide to kill him. But the woman falls in love with the future victim, and so the two scoundrels kill each other. A young unscrupulous magnate arranges for his uncle to be killed by his lover. In so doing he wants to become chairman of the company. However, his main rival to that office, who is also the dead man’s son, has found out everything and kills him. The murder is covered up by the family silence. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Oedipus Orca Eyes without light (Oedipus Orca) (Occhi senza luce) Directed by Visconti Eriprando - Cast: Niehaus Rena, Ferzetti Gabriele, Bosè M. - Italy - 105’ - 1976 - COL. Directed by Calzavara Flavio - Cast: Tajoli Luciano, Vitale Milly, Maggio Dante - Italy - 92’ - 1961 - B/W A blind English girl is advised by an Italian singer, whom she admires, to undergo an eye operation and thus regain her sight. She falls in love with a man and refuses the singer's proposal of marriage. He is disappointed and wants to give up his career. Then she finds out that her fiancé is only interested in her dowry and so she goes back to the singer. Alice, eighteen-year-old daughter of provincial middle-class parents, has been kidnapped. She has had an affair with her kidnapper and has killed him. But her father does not want to pay the ransom and so the girl hates him so much that she suspects him of not being her real father. So she finds out that her mother had a lover in the past. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN-DE Those that count Orphan of the ghetto (The) (Quelli che contano) (Orfana del ghetto (L')) Directed by Bianchi A. - Cast: Bouchet Barbara, Landi M., Silva H. - Italy - 97’ - 1973 - Col. Directed by Campogalliani Carlo - Cast: Marzi Franca, Boni Luisella, Baldini Renato - Italy - 90’ - 1954 - B/W Tony, a gangster, arrives in Sicily from the United States in oder to sow discord between the two leading mafia families of the island. Once he has achieved his aim, he then nightfully takes his place among the most powerful godfathers. In order to prevent the marriage of his daughter Renata with his secretary Fabrizio, Count Adriani has Renata and Fabrizio's baby girl kidnapped and kills the man who was in charge of the baby. A dramatic and passionate story of love, hate and intrigue with a happy ending. DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN DRAMA - Versions available: IT Forgive me Return to life (Perdonami) (Ritorno alla vita) Directed by Nievas Conde I. A. - Cast: Lulli Folco, Uberti Mirella Italy - 80’ - 1957 - B/W Directed by Mario Costa - Cast: Raf Vallone, Antonella Lualdi, Tamara Lees - Italy - 104’ - 1953 - B/W A story of a woman that marries the brother of a guardian killed during a robbery by his own brother. A doctor is injustly sentenced to go to prison. On finishing his term, he is released with two other prison inmates. On their train home, a little boy is suddenly taken ill with diptheria and an emergency operation is necessary. The doctor at first refuses to deal with it because he has become embittered with society. However, his companions make him change his mind. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-9 Monstrous doctor Crimen (The) Sinner of the island (The) (Mostruoso dottor Crimen (Il)) (Peccatrice dell'isola (La)) Variety Communications - 00197 Roma - V.le B. Buozzi, 64 - Tel. +39.06.36001409, +39.06.36001417, +39.06.36001418, Fax +39.06.36001407 - E-mail: variety@iol.it Directed by Urueta Chano - Cast: Miroslava, Navarro Carlos Mexico - 90’ - 1953 - B/W Directed by Corbucci Sergio - Cast: Pampanini Silvana, Kitmiller John, Lulli Folco - Italy - 101’ - 1952 - B/W An ambitious woman journalist conceals her job in order to befriend a terribly disfigured scientist who believes her friendship is sincere. However, when the scientist finds out the truth, he decides to take revenge through a youth he has raised from the dead. Just when the scientist is about to operate on the woman’s beautiful face, the youth kills him and is in turn killed by the woman’s fiancee. The police are investigating, on an island inhabited mainly by fishermen, the deaths of a former singer and a negro sailor. Slowly the truth emerges. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Repentance My little darling (Pentimento) (Piccola mia) Directed by De Liguoro Eugenio - Cast: Paolieri Germana, Sabbatini Ernesto, Celano Guido - Italy - 87’ - 1933 - B/W Directed by Di Gianni Enzo - Cast: Nova Eva, Pizzi Nilla, Latilla Gino - Italy - 98’ - 1952 - B/W A night-club singer, who is an airman's widow, is rebuffed and thrown down a flight of stairs by a hot-tempered rival. She goes back and decides to bring up a small hooligan who is actually her rival's son. She ends up by marrying the boy's father. A woman leaves her little daughter and husband, and goes to live with a racing driver. The woman's husband forbids her to see their child. In spite of this, she goes to see her daughter while on holiday and finds out that she is ill. A mother's love wins. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT Rendez - vous in Liverpool Naked odyssey (Appuntamento a Liverpool) (Odissea nuda) Directed by Rossi Franco - Cast: Salerno Enrico Maria, Dolores Patricia, Donlon Dolores - Italy - 117’ - 1961 - COL. Directed by Giordana Marco Tullio - Cast: Court Nigel, Ferrari Isabella, Steiner John - Italy - 99’ - 1988 - COL. An Italian girl goes to Liverpool to find out who killed her father (who died during the Juventus - Liverpool European Cup football match in Brussels). She manages to trace the hooligan but, at yithe last moment does not have the nerve to take vengeance. An intellectual is in Tahiti to make a film. In actual fact, he has profound reasons for wanting to efface his past as a Westerner and to live in contact with Nature. But, after several love affairs with the local girls, he returns to his own country. DRAMA - Versions available: IT-EN DRAMA - Versions available: IT They will be men Scandal (The) (Saranno uomini) (Scandalo (Lo)) Directed by Gobbi Anna - Cast:Aimée Anouk, Leroy Philippe, Micaela Cendali - Italy - 93’ - 1967 - B/W Directed by Siano Silvio - Cast: Pampanini Silvana, Girotti Massimo, Silvani Aldo - Italy - 93’ - 1956 - B/W Three boys leave a reformatory and each one chooses a different life: Antonio becomes a priest, Aldo is a mechanic, and Giacomo becomes a minor wrongdoer. After several acts of violence and a robbery, Giacomo kidnaps Aldo, who has the stolen goods and asks Father Antonio to shelter him. In a shooting, Giacomo's girlfriend Sara is killed, while Father Antonio's difficult position is understood by the parish priest and forgiven. In a castle, a bored upper middle-class couple receive their friends. In fact, the husband is the lover of one of the women, and one of the men has been paid to pretend to be in love with the wife. In the end,the wife finds out everything. After the holiday, they go back to their usual lives that are more empty. DRAMA - Versions available: IT DRAMA - Versions available: IT DR-10