Umberto Spadaro

Umberto Spadaro

Born: November 8, 1904
Died: October 12, 1981
in Ancona, Italy
Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor.

He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor.

Movies for Umberto Spadaro...

Smell of Flesh
Title: Smell of Flesh
Character: Doctor
Released: December 8, 1975
Type: Movie
Domenico Modguno is a horn dog who loves looking up skirts and travels back to Italy to stay with his brother and wife. His brothers stepdaughter is hot and he spends most of the movie forcing himself on her, and for a change of pace her mother.
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Il gatto mammone
Title: Il gatto mammone
Character: Doctor
Released: December 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
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The Barons
Title: The Barons
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.
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The Governess
Title: The Governess
Released: February 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Catania, Italy. The Platania family hires a new French governess, the beautiful Caterina. The life of the whole family will be soon turned upside down.
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Sun City
Title: Sun City
Released: August 5, 1973
Type: Movie
1600, Southern Italy is under the Spanish Government. A few years before an attempt at rebellion, inspired by the preaching of the philosopher and monk Tommaso Campanella, is severely quelled by the Government. Tommaso Campanella, under the charge of the plot, is put into a prison in Naples and waits for the conclusion of an endless process. Throughout the Calabrian countries his name is wrapped up in legend, he becomes almost a myth. Someone believes he has escaped from prison and wanders about under a false name.
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The Big Family
Title: The Big Family
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
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Title: FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore
Character: Suocero di Bertolazzi
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: TV
FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore is an Italian television series.
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Title: I Spy
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The characters' travels as ostensible "tennis bums", Robinson playing talented tennis as an amateur with the wealthy in return for food and lodging, and Scott tagging along, provided a cover story concealing their roles as top agents for the Pentagon. Their real work usually kept them busy chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Three F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Studios where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season. Actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, best known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and '50s, was the executive producer. He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series.
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Lost Treasure of the Incas
Title: Lost Treasure of the Incas
Character: Darmon Henchman
Released: October 15, 1964
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, where they come up against an outlaw gang that is searching for a buried Inca treasure, which is guarded by a lot Inca tribe.
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A Fistful of Dollars
Title: A Fistful of Dollars
Character: Miguel - Rojo Gunman (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1964
Type: Movie
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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Le ore nude
Title: Le ore nude
Character: Nonno
Released: August 27, 1964
Type: Movie
In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him.
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Seduced and Abandoned
Title: Seduced and Abandoned
Character: il cugino di Ascalone
Released: January 30, 1964
Type: Movie
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
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A Very Handy Man
Title: A Very Handy Man
Released: January 23, 1964
Type: Movie
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
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The Eye of the Needle
Title: The Eye of the Needle
Character: Don Luigino Trizzini
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
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The Four Monks
Title: The Four Monks
Character: L'ortolano
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
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Hell in the City
Title: Hell in the City
Character: Direttore del carcere
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
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Love and Troubles
Title: Love and Troubles
Character: Antonio
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
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Ya tenemos coche
Title: Ya tenemos coche
Character: Don José
Released: November 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Don Jose is a good family man and a model employee. He lives in his house as a King with his wife and children who make him happy. His only enemy is Dona Rosa, her mother, who has the habit of saying the last word on everything.
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The Wide Blue Road
Title: The Wide Blue Road
Character: Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer
Released: November 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
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Manos sucias
Title: Manos sucias
Character: Valero
Released: June 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but is haunted by what he did to obtain it.
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Bitterly
Title: Bitterly
Released: December 24, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Best Part
Title: The Best Part
Character: Gino
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
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Headlines of Destruction
Title: Headlines of Destruction
Released: November 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, rejects him. Shortly afterwards, Rupert discovers Alice dead, murdered. Fearing charges, he asks one of his reporters, Barney Morgan, to direct suspicion to Michel. But Michel's lawyer shows Barney that the husband is innocent.
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Title: Don Camillo's Last Round
Character: Bezzi, il contadino
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
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Magic Village
Title: Magic Village
Character: Don Puglisi
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is forced to postpone his trip and only joins Lucienne a few days later, taking advantage of the departure of a following group. During the train journey, he befriends Thérèse, a young Sicilian living in Paris, who wants to make a pilgrimage to the land of her ancestors. Lucienne is away from the camp when Robert arrives, so he can continue to see Thérèse, and little by little they discover that they love each other. When Lucienne returns, an explanation and reconciliation take place, then Robert changes his mind and, with the vacations over, leaves Lucienne alone to live in Sicily with Thérèse, who wants to stay in her family's homeland.
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Scampolo 53
Title: Scampolo 53
Released: March 8, 1955
Type: Movie
A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this.
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Non vogliamo morire
Title: Non vogliamo morire
Character: Capitano del battello
Released: March 4, 1954
Type: Movie
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Fatal Desire
Title: Fatal Desire
Character: Uncle Brasi
Released: January 14, 1954
Type: Movie
In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
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Passionate song
Title: Passionate song
Character: commissario
Released: November 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.
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The Vanquished
Title: The Vanquished
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a university student's involved in smuggling cigarettes. In the English episode, a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs, and tries to sell his story to the press.
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A Husband for Anna
Title: A Husband for Anna
Character: Don Antonio Percucoco
Released: August 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
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Riscatto
Title: Riscatto
Character: cappellano
Released: August 20, 1953
Type: Movie
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Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
Title: Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
Character: Padre putativo di Jolanda
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
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Lasciateci in pace
Title: Lasciateci in pace
Character: Achille Buongiorno
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
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Serenata amara
Title: Serenata amara
Character: Il maestro di musica
Released: November 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.
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Dogs and Cats
Title: Dogs and Cats
Character: don Filippo
Released: October 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
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Il segreto delle tre punte
Title: Il segreto delle tre punte
Character: colonnello Grimaldi
Released: September 26, 1952
Type: Movie
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The Eternal Chain
Title: The Eternal Chain
Character: maresciallo della legione straniera
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home.
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The Man in My Life
Title: The Man in My Life
Released: April 16, 1952
Type: Movie
L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting herself and her child as a prostitute, Madeleine manages to give her daughter an expensive girl's-school education, all the while keeping her own identity and profession a secret. The girl grows up to be an insufferable snob; nonetheless, Madeleine attempts to re-establish a relationship. Things take a sorry turn when the daughter takes drastic actions to defend her mother's honor.
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Appointment for Murder
Title: Appointment for Murder
Character: Detective Pietrangeli
Released: January 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
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A Woman Has Killed
Title: A Woman Has Killed
Character: Gustavo Castelli
Released: January 4, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of technical and financial problems and working Sundays with the pieces of film given to him bit by bit, Cottafavi shot Una donna ha ucciso, a minor film that marked his comeback to directing. (Gianni Rondolino)
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Lebbra bianca
Title: Lebbra bianca
Character: Commissario capo
Released: February 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Il nido di falasco
Title: Il nido di falasco
Character: Luccio
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A young cabaret trainer, Viola, who has just compromised herself in a case, flees. On the train, she meets Dominique, who lives in a cabin in Tuscany, on the edge of the marshes. Dominique and Viola settle in the hut and soon the young woman is expecting a baby...
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Outlaw Girl
Title: Outlaw Girl
Character: Doctor Micheli
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
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Angel in the crowd
Title: Angel in the crowd
Released: October 17, 1950
Type: Movie
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The Outlaws
Title: The Outlaws
Character: don Ciccio Balestrieri
Released: June 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.
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Angelo
Title: Angelo
Character: Don Gennaro
Released: April 8, 1950
Type: Movie
An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of an encounter between his wife and an American GI. Released in America as "Angelo"
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Pact with the Devil
Title: Pact with the Devil
Character: Scoppola - the killer
Released: January 11, 1950
Type: Movie
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
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Difficult Years
Title: Difficult Years
Character: Aldo Piscitello
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
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Bicycle Thieves
Title: Bicycle Thieves
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
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I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Title: I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Character: Gegè
Released: March 27, 1948
Type: Movie
Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
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Il corriere di ferro
Title: Il corriere di ferro
Released: March 20, 1948
Type: Movie
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Tombolo, paradiso nero
Title: Tombolo, paradiso nero
Character: cantante
Released: October 24, 1947
Type: Movie
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Fumeria d’oppio
Title: Fumeria d’oppio
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
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Furia
Title: Furia
Character: Rocco
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
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Malacarne
Title: Malacarne
Character: il gobbo
Released: December 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca
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Vietato ai minorenni
Title: Vietato ai minorenni
Released: March 2, 1944
Type: Movie
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Totò nella fossa dei leoni
Title: Totò nella fossa dei leoni
Character: Lo stregone
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
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Sempre più difficile
Title: Sempre più difficile
Character: Mucugno
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
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Giorno di nozze
Title: Giorno di nozze
Character: Cameriere
Released: September 28, 1942
Type: Movie
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Senza cielo
Title: Senza cielo
Released: November 24, 1940
Type: Movie