Franco Pesce

Franco Pesce

Born: August 11, 1890
Died: December 6, 1975
in Naples, Campania, Italy

Movies for Franco Pesce...

God's Gun
Title: God's Gun
Character: Crooked Gambler
Released: February 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
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We Are No Angels
Title: We Are No Angels
Character: Prof. Berberg
Released: September 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
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A Virgin Named Mary
Title: A Virgin Named Mary
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
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Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Title: Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Character: Il vecchio prete
Released: October 10, 1973
Type: Movie
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A Full Day's Work
Title: A Full Day's Work
Character: Le père de Jean Rousseau
Released: March 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
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Jus primae noctis
Title: Jus primae noctis
Released: September 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.
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God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth
Title: God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth
Character: Sam - Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1972
Type: Movie
A bounty hunter named Arizona helps a group of beleaguered farmers in their fight against a large landowner named Austin Styles and his gang of outlaws.
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His Name Was Holy Ghost
Title: His Name Was Holy Ghost
Character: Doctor
Released: March 30, 1972
Type: Movie
The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.
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Where the Bullets Fly
Title: Where the Bullets Fly
Character: Golddigger
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.
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In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Title: In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Character: Barbasciati
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After number of refusals Zilio is desperate, but Nale, a young lover, combines a frontal marriage between the two, convinced they can take advantage of it. After the ceremony, however, the legitimate husband stabs Nale who seemingly dies, but actually prepares a joke for the couple.
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Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io
Title: Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
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Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Title: Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Released: July 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.
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They Call Me Hallelujah
Title: They Call Me Hallelujah
Character: Ebenezer
Released: April 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A Yankee gunman, Hallelujah, is hired by Mexican Juarista, General Ramirez to confiscate a case of jewels to fund the revolution. For this, Hallelujah will receive a percentage. But other parties are interested in the case and when they turn out to be fakes, it all deteriorates into a cat and mouse style game with Hallelujah, gunrunners, the French, and a Russian outlaw(!) all searching for the real jewels. - SWDB
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Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Title: Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Character: Professor Pon Pon
Released: December 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.
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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Title: Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Character: Undertaker
Released: October 8, 1970
Type: Movie
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
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Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Title: Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Character: Agostino Bonelli
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Former racing champion John Lee Scott coaches young driver Dustin Rich. The learn of a new Italian model that can reach 300 kilometers an hour developed by an 80 year old racing expert.
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Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Title: Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Character: Old man in scarf
Released: August 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.
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Shango
Title: Shango
Character: Manuel
Released: March 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of thugs who have been terrorizing a local border town in search of gold.
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Title: I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Character: Mayor (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
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The Angel
Title: The Angel
Character: Padre Superior
Released: October 20, 1969
Type: Movie
A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.
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Forgotten Pistolero
Title: Forgotten Pistolero
Character: Tequila
Released: October 17, 1969
Type: Movie
One of the most ambitious spaghetti westerns, The Forgotten Pistolero is a retelling of the Greek legend of Orestes, who avenges the murder of his father with the help of his friend and former mentor Pylades and his sister Electra. In Baldi’s movie, Orestes is called Sebastian, a man living on his own. One day a wounded stranger called Rafael/Pylades takes shelter in his house and tells him that he, Sebastian, is the son of a Mexican general who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Sebastian has no recollection of the massacre, but the tolling of the bells announcing the Ave Maria bring back fragmented memories. Finally Sebastian is re-united with his sister Isabella and together they avenge the murder of their father. The film is a bit confusing from time to time, with a storyline that seems over-complicated for a spaghetti western, but patient and attentive viewers are rewarded. The Forgotten Pistolero is also known for Roberto Pregadio’s awesome score.
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Paranoia
Title: Paranoia
Character: Martino
Released: February 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.
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A Gun for One Hundred Graves
Title: A Gun for One Hundred Graves
Character: Ben, il cassamortaro
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the fourth, a certain Corbett. Finally he discovers Corbett as the leader of a gang that has plans to rob a local bank and is invited to help defend the town from the bandits. Teaming with a preacher, who has an agenda of his own, the two take a stand against Corbett.
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Title: If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Character: Dusty
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
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I barbieri di Sicilia
Title: I barbieri di Sicilia
Character: don Liborio
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage the bacteriological weapons the Nazis are preparing to use against the allied armies invasion.
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Don't Wait, Django… Shoot!
Title: Don't Wait, Django… Shoot!
Character: Undertaker
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.
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Sheriff With the Gold
Title: Sheriff With the Gold
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A gunman teams up with a small time sheriff to rob a shipment of gold.
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A... For Assassin
Title: A... For Assassin
Character: Peter, the Gardener
Released: July 8, 1966
Type: Movie
After a rich mine worker dies in mine accident, his heirs gather in his house to hear the reading of the will.
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Cifrato speciale
Title: Cifrato speciale
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Night of Violence
Title: Night of Violence
Released: December 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Carla Pratesi, a prostitute, is killed. Her death is followed by a number of attempted murders. Carla's sister undertakes her own investigation. Police enquiries uncover a drugs trade connected to a call-girls organization but the murderer remains at large. Finally, a witness identifies the killer as a well-known actor. However, he has a strong alibi (he was shooting a film). The following night, a girl who manages to escape from the maniac's clutches swears he is a different famous actor but he turns out to have a strong alibi too! Eventually the police set a trap in the park and, with the help of Carla, kill the madman. It emerges he had been disfigured by the atomic blast at Hiroshima and went crazy because his disformed features revolted women and but them off having sex with him. He created masks reproducing the features of handsome actors just to approach prostitutes!
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Blood at Sundown
Title: Blood at Sundown
Character: Sam
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Title: Don Camillo: Monsignor
Character: il sacrestano
Released: October 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
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Revolt of the Mercenaries
Title: Revolt of the Mercenaries
Character: Old Man
Released: July 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.
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Scandali al mare
Title: Scandali al mare
Character: Usciere
Released: March 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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Lui, lei e il nonno
Title: Lui, lei e il nonno
Character: Don Salvatore
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Law
Title: The Law
Released: January 25, 1959
Type: Movie
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
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The Hussars
Title: The Hussars
Character: le curé
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
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Ultima illusione
Title: Ultima illusione
Character: Petrucci
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation.
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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Title: The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Character: Giovanni
Released: December 28, 1954
Type: Movie
In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
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Ho pianto per te!
Title: Ho pianto per te!
Released: October 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Emma and Lucia grow up together in an orphanage and remain friends throughout adulthood. When Emma has to work away from home, she entrusts her daughter to Lucia. When she receives word that her daughter has died, she is desolate - but whose child did, actually, pass away?
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The Last Race
Title: The Last Race
Character: Piuma
Released: May 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Two young men are training for a rowing race on the Tiber. One of them, "Marco" is distracted by a new found love.
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La grande avventura
Title: La grande avventura
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen?
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Voice of Silence
Title: Voice of Silence
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.
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Sangue sul sagrato
Title: Sangue sul sagrato
Released: December 13, 1952
Type: Movie
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Eran trecento
Title: Eran trecento
Character: Lo speziale
Released: November 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Set in 1857, it's the story of a band of revolutionaries fighting against the Borbones.
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Title: Mademoiselle Gobete
Character: Usciere del ministro
Released: October 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
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Nobody Has Betrayed
Title: Nobody Has Betrayed
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Title: The Little World of Don Camillo
Character: il sacrestano
Released: March 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Title: Una bruna indiavolata!
Character: Suocero di Cartoni (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
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O.K. Nero
Title: O.K. Nero
Released: November 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
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Spring song
Title: Spring song
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
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La bisarca
Title: La bisarca
Released: November 4, 1950
Type: Movie
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La portatrice di pane
Title: La portatrice di pane
Released: September 13, 1950
Type: Movie
France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.
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The Walls of Malapaga
Title: The Walls of Malapaga
Released: September 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
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Il barone Carlo Mazza
Title: Il barone Carlo Mazza
Character: Il maestro di musica (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
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L'elisir d'amore
Title: L'elisir d'amore
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.
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Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Title: Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.
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Apparizione
Title: Apparizione
Character: Uomo che fa benzina
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.
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Eternal Melody
Title: Eternal Melody
Character: Direttore di Scena
Released: December 3, 1940
Type: Movie
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart