Saro Urzì

Saro Urzì

Born: February 24, 1913
Died: November 2, 1979
in Catania, Sicily, Italy
Saro Urzì was born on February 24, 1913, died  November 2, 1979 (age 66) in San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Italy. He was an actor.

Movies for Saro Urzì...

The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
Title: The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
Character: Vitelli
Released: March 24, 1981
Type: Movie
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.
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Title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Character: Mr. Vitelli
Released: November 12, 1977
Type: TV
An adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage not seen in the first two films added.
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Giovannino
Title: Giovannino
Character: Giovannino's Father
Released: May 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl.
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Occhio Alla Vedova!
Title: Occhio Alla Vedova!
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Concetta Li Cause, deprived of her husband Oreste by the Mafia, is coveted by Bologna Marcello and Charles postman. Besides the two, there are other suitors because the widow is rich; but Cosa Nostra deploys its resources to prevent the woman from finding a new partner.
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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
Title: Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
Character: caporale Martucci
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
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Il Figlioccio del padrino
Title: Il Figlioccio del padrino
Character: Don Salvatore Trizzino
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.
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The Pisciotta Case
Title: The Pisciotta Case
Character: Don Vincenzo Coluzzi
Released: November 23, 1972
Type: Movie
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
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Alfredo, Alfredo
Title: Alfredo, Alfredo
Character: Maria Rosa's Father
Released: September 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
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Black Turin
Title: Black Turin
Character: Jaco
Released: May 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.
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The Godfather
Title: The Godfather
Character: Vitelli - Sicilian Sequence
Released: March 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
Title: Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
Character: Salvatore Uzzeda
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...
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The Lovemakers
Title: The Lovemakers
Character: The Doctor
Released: December 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Title: Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Character: John Cardaci
Released: August 29, 1970
Type: Movie
A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
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Un caso di coscienza
Title: Un caso di coscienza
Character: Farmacista
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: John McDonald
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Serafino
Title: Serafino
Character: Uncle Agenore
Released: December 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
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Love in the Night
Title: Love in the Night
Released: June 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.
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People of Honor
Title: People of Honor
Character: Francesco 'Ciccio' Natale
Released: December 15, 1967
Type: Movie
In an operation aimed at hitting the mafia, the Sicilian police hunt down several assassins to trace their bosses. The hunted, with the help of the mafia, try to escape from the island.
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Who's Got the Black Box?
Title: Who's Got the Black Box?
Character: Khalidès
Released: October 27, 1967
Type: Movie
The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
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Modesty Blaise
Title: Modesty Blaise
Character: Basilio
Released: May 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Title: Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: 2nd Praying Man
Released: February 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
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Song of the World
Title: Song of the World
Character: Carle
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
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Mission to Caracas
Title: Mission to Caracas
Character: Emile Vasson
Released: October 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.
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Don Camillo in Moscow
Title: Don Camillo in Moscow
Character: Brusco
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
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The Sucker
Title: The Sucker
Character: Tagliella, le garagiste à Naples (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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Seduced and Abandoned
Title: Seduced and Abandoned
Character: Don Vincenzo 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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Una storia di notte
Title: Una storia di notte
Character: Peppino
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Divorzio alla siciliana
Title: Divorzio alla siciliana
Released: March 15, 1963
Type: Movie
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Lo sgarro
Title: Lo sgarro
Character: Carmelo
Released: February 6, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Title: Don Camillo: Monsignor
Character: Brusco, il sindaco
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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A Day for Lionhearts
Title: A Day for Lionhearts
Character: Il sergente
Released: September 5, 1961
Type: Movie
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
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The Fruit Is Ripe
Title: The Fruit Is Ripe
Character: Buonacasa
Released: June 22, 1961
Type: Movie
It is fruit-picking season in the plain and pickers come from all over and live in a camp for several weeks. Among the many pretty girls are Kissa, a natural vamp who delights in exciting men; Margo who is hard and tough, and Josine who is tender and romantic. They work in a feverish atmosphere and inflamed by the summer heat, youthful passions run riot, and the girls' sensual behavior cause rivalry among the men. Lorry driver Armand applies the same degree of ardor to his love-making as to his work, and his biggest rival is the boss' son, Berto, a strutting rooster who is very proud of his American car. After work each day, Kissa queens it in the cabaret on shore, and derives great pleasure in arousing jealousy between the men.
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There's Going to Be a Party
Title: There's Going to Be a Party
Character: Alvarez
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.
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Seven in the Sun
Title: Seven in the Sun
Character: Fernand
Released: May 2, 1960
Type: Movie
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Cavalcata selvaggia
Title: Cavalcata selvaggia
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Facts of Murder
Title: The Facts of Murder
Character: Il Maresciallo P.S.
Released: October 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
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Son of the Red Corsair
Title: Son of the Red Corsair
Character: Mendoza
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
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Hell in the City
Title: Hell in the City
Character: Maresciallo 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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Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen
Title: Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen
Character: Koch Peppino
Released: December 18, 1958
Type: Movie
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Man of Straw
Title: Man of Straw
Character: Beppe
Released: March 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop.
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Girl Merchants
Title: Girl Merchants
Character: Mottina
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Engaged to Death
Title: Engaged to Death
Character: Tullio
Released: April 13, 1957
Type: Movie
A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza’s Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very rare footage of the Moto Guzzi wind tunnel and factories. The film features, alongside popular actors Rik Battaglia and Sylva Koscina, many of the most important champions of those years: Geoffrey Duke, Libero Liberati, Bill Lomas, Enrico Lorenzetti, Reg Armstrong, Stanley Woods, Ken Cavanagh, Dickie Dale, Thomas Campbell, Pierre Monneret, Albino Milani, Walter Zeller, Bruno Francisci, all of them riding amazing Moto Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial and Norton bikes with the so charming and dangerous dustbin fairings that were going to be banned in 1958.
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The Railroad Man
Title: The Railroad Man
Character: Gigi Liverani
Released: November 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Title: Don Camillo's Last Round
Character: il Brusco
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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La ladra
Title: La ladra
Character: Il caporale
Released: March 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
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Frisky
Title: Frisky
Character: Don Nicola
Released: December 6, 1954
Type: Movie
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
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I cinque dell'Adamello
Title: I cinque dell'Adamello
Character: Briscola
Released: November 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
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Reeds and mud
Title: Reeds and mud
Character: Cañamel
Released: October 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but the young man will be forced to leave the Albufera of Valencia and serve in the war in Cuba. During his absence, Neleta marries the rich innkeeper Canyamel. Upon the return of the war, Tonet and Neleta cannot avoid their adulterous relationship, provoking the talk of the people of the village.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Released: February 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Following the death of his wife in unclear circumstances, the mechanic Egisto Bianchi is accused of auxoricide. A journalist begins to take care of the case and ignites public interest with a successful press campaign. The accused is acquitted for lack of evidence, but the reporter thinks he can still take advantage of the case by making a film of it. He then convinces some filmmakers to draw from the episode the subject of a film in which Bianchi himself will be the protagonist. During the filming, the reporter discovers that Bianchi's wife was cheating on her husband. So he then decides to modify the film script, including adultery, and to be able to shoot without problems he makes Bianchi go away. But he returns and, unseen, witnesses the new scenes of the film in the cinema of the country. Bianchi convinced that adultery is an invention, protests for the change, but the journalist reveals the truth to him, bringing the story to a dramatic ending.
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Beat the Devil
Title: Beat the Devil
Character: Captain of SS Nyanga
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
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Cronaca di un delitto
Title: Cronaca di un delitto
Character: Martino
Released: June 29, 1953
Type: Movie
After a factory worker is killed, Sergio Bruni is placed on remand for two years before being released for lack of evidence. Shunned by his wife and his colleagues, he must now discover the true culprit.
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The Return of Don Camillo
Title: The Return of Don Camillo
Character: Brusco - il barbiere
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
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The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
Title: The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
Character: Commissario Siceli
Released: October 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
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I, Hamlet
Title: I, Hamlet
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Title: The Little World of Don Camillo
Character: Brusco
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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Brothers of Italy
Title: Brothers of Italy
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
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Revenge of the Pirates
Title: Revenge of the Pirates
Character: Aguirre
Released: October 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Commissario
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
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Il bivio
Title: Il bivio
Character: Il brigadiere Carmelo Carlin
Released: March 19, 1951
Type: Movie
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
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Il monello della strada
Title: Il monello della strada
Character: Il commissario
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
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The Path of Hope
Title: The Path of Hope
Character: Ciccio Ingaggiatore
Released: November 22, 1950
Type: Movie
The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.
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Lo sparviero del Nilo
Title: Lo sparviero del Nilo
Character: Sahid
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
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Streets of Sorrow
Title: Streets of Sorrow
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
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Pact with the Devil
Title: Pact with the Devil
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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People Like That
Title: People Like That
Released: January 5, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Monastero di Santa Chiara
Title: Monastero di Santa Chiara
Character: Il direttore del teatro (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.
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In the Name of the Law
Title: In the Name of the Law
Character: Il maresciallo Grifò
Released: March 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
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La mano della morta
Title: La mano della morta
Character: zingaro Marco
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
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Tombolo, paradiso nero
Title: Tombolo, paradiso nero
Released: October 24, 1947
Type: Movie
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The Peddler and the Lady
Title: The Peddler and the Lady
Character: Amico di Elide e Olga
Released: June 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
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Senza cielo
Title: Senza cielo
Character: Portatore
Released: November 24, 1940
Type: Movie
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The Dream of Butterfly
Title: The Dream of Butterfly
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.