John Karlsen

John Karlsen

Born: October 20, 1919
Died: April 5, 2017
in Wellington, New Zealand

Movies for John Karlsen...

The Hideout
Title: The Hideout
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
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Screw Loose
Title: Screw Loose
Character: Dr. Caputo
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.
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The Sandman
Title: The Sandman
Character: Spalanzini
Released: July 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be...
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Killer Rules
Title: Killer Rules
Character: Lord Elston
Released: January 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.
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Il conte Max
Title: Il conte Max
Character: Maggiordomo
Released: September 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Alfredo is a crude Roman motorcycle repairman who is a friend of Count Max, a gentleman and ex-pleasure lover. The latter invites Alfredo to his residence in Campo dei Fiori and teaches him etiquette, French and how to play poker. The laughter will begin when Alfredo meets and chases the beautiful model Isabell Bellissima in Paris.
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Stasera a casa di Alice
Title: Stasera a casa di Alice
Character: suocero
Released: December 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds out that he cheated on her with a comely girl named Alice.
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Frankenstein Unbound
Title: Frankenstein Unbound
Character: Parson
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
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Title: Valentina
Character: Rolander
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: TV
The stories revolve around the investigations of Valentina Rosselli, and the intrigues in which she gets involved because of her curiosity and her wonderful physical appearance. In the Shareholders She is often assisted by the antiquarian Philip Rembrandt, with whom she shares an ambiguous relationship.
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The Church
Title: The Church
Character: Heinrich
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Title: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Character: Evil Duke
Released: February 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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The Gamble
Title: The Gamble
Released: October 28, 1988
Type: Movie
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost everything to a German countess while gambling.
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The Little Devil
Title: The Little Devil
Character: Padre confessore
Released: July 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
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The Devils of Monza
Title: The Devils of Monza
Character: Don Carlo
Released: June 16, 1987
Type: Movie
The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He hears the rumor that she'd have an affair with her trustee - so he kills him in a set-up duel and aims to take his place. Against her initial resistance, Monza manages to win her heart - and to get into her bed. This doesn't stay a secret for long, but Monza, now in love, does everything to keep it going.
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I Love N.Y.
Title: I Love N.Y.
Character: Butler
Released: May 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats (N.Y.) and Mario fall in love, this angers her father and hurts Mario's work which further infuriates his boss. Will love prevail?
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Good King Dagobert
Title: Good King Dagobert
Character: Corbus
Released: August 22, 1984
Type: Movie
King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
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Title: Marco Polo
Character: Judge
Released: December 5, 1982
Type: TV
Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.
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The Warning
Title: The Warning
Character: Ferdinando Violante
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
It is a law police officials obey out of fear. A rule chilling in its simplicity. Accept corruption...or die! They have sealed an unholy alliance. The great banks of Europe. And the blackhearted underworld empire. Together, with their matchless wealth, there is no stopping their almighty, corrosive power. Even the police force's investigation into the diabolical link has been polluted by corruption and terror! When key police officials of the inquiry are viciously assassinated, only two honest men remain--a commissioner and police chief--to carry out the suicidal investigation. And they must fight a deepening mistrust of each other. For they too, know the only rule of the game. They too, have been warned!
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Velvet Hands
Title: Velvet Hands
Character: il notaio
Released: December 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.
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The Black Stallion
Title: The Black Stallion
Character: Archeologist
Released: October 13, 1979
Type: Movie
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
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The New Godfathers
Title: The New Godfathers
Character: membro della Commissione Narcotici
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: Movie
A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
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Fellini's Casanova
Title: Fellini's Casanova
Character: Lord Talou
Released: December 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
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The Messiah
Title: The Messiah
Character: Caiaphas
Released: October 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story of Jesus in its ancient, historic context.
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The Sex Machine
Title: The Sex Machine
Character: capo delle spie
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.
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Prete, fai un miracolo
Title: Prete, fai un miracolo
Character: Ritter
Released: March 17, 1975
Type: Movie
"Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the metropolis. He is involved with a group of young hippies, the "angels of death" who announced their collective suicide to protest against the society that is deprived of love and victim of the system that kills everything.
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Footprints on the Moon
Title: Footprints on the Moon
Character: Alfredo Laurenti / Alfred Lowenthal (as John Carlsen)
Released: February 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
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The Kiss of Death
Title: The Kiss of Death
Character: Friedrich (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a novel by Carolina Invernizio.
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What?
Title: What?
Character: Edward
Released: December 7, 1972
Type: Movie
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
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Slaughter Hotel
Title: Slaughter Hotel
Character: Professor Osterman
Released: August 2, 1971
Type: Movie
A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Title: Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Character: venditore di cassaforti
Released: July 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Tre nel mille
Title: Tre nel mille
Released: March 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked only by the discovery on the part of the cavalryman of his wife's betrayal
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Juliette de Sade
Title: Juliette de Sade
Character: The Marchese
Released: December 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Sade adaptation set in the late 1960s.
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The Laughing Woman
Title: The Laughing Woman
Character: Manservant (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.
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I See Naked
Title: I See Naked
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: April 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
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Carnal Circuit
Title: Carnal Circuit
Character: Fletcher (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
We follow the Journal reporter Paulo whose close friend mysteriously been taken out of the way and it's now up to Paulo to figure out who the culprits are. The film is set in a drug-scented and "swinging" Los Angeles, where orgies and violence seem to be commonplace, and it soon appears that Paulo is on someone's hit list.
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Spirits of the Dead
Title: Spirits of the Dead
Character: Schoolmaster (segment "William Wilson") (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
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Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
Title: Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
Character: Professor Micklewitz
Released: March 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A masked superhero searches for a magical golden relic while trying to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb.
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L'oro di Londra
Title: L'oro di Londra
Character: Ed
Released: January 23, 1968
Type: Movie
The boss has come up with something: Ed, outwardly a brave London citizen, attacks with a well-trained accomplice a van of the British Central Bank. The gangsters capture a million pounds sterling and can escape unrecognized. Scotland Yard is the target of the mockery, it comes to a government crisis. Only the hint of a child, who happened to witness the coup, brings the genre law enforcers on the right track.
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I barbieri di Sicilia
Title: I barbieri di Sicilia
Character: chimico tedesco
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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Mission Stardust
Title: Mission Stardust
Character: Crest
Released: August 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots and discover that enemy spies are out to kill the alien.
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The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
Title: The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
Character: Blossom
Released: November 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Sam Whipple, an attorney in once-upon-a-time-land, is startled to receive a visit from Santa Claus shortly before Christmas. It seems that when he was a child, Sam wrote a letter thanking Santa for the presents he'd received, and offering to return the favor someday. That day is now - a mean old soul named Phineas Prune, who holds the deed to the North Pole, is demanding back rent. Otherwise, he's going to evict Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves and take all the Christmas toys. It's up to Sam and Santa to find a way to pay off Prune and prevent Christmas from being canceled.
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Requiem for a Secret Agent
Title: Requiem for a Secret Agent
Character: Franco
Released: October 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
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Francis of Assisi
Title: Francis of Assisi
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Cavani made her first full-length feature film in 1966 with Francis of Assisi (Francesco d'Assisi). Made for television and aired in two parts, it was deeply influenced by the style of Rossellini and the atmosphere typical of the films of Pasolini. Made in a period of political unrest, it was to become a kind of manifesto of dissenting Catholicism. Starring Lou Castel, it portrays Francis of Assisi as a slightly depressed protestor and an avid, albeit mad, supporter of armed brotherhood. The ideal defender of the 1968 student movement. The film was a great success, but also triggered many negative reactions. It was called "heretical, blasphemous and offensive for the faith of the Italian people". It was the first of many polemical reactions to Cavani's work.
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El Greco
Title: El Greco
Released: August 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
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Our Men in Bagdad
Title: Our Men in Bagdad
Character: Ambassador
Released: August 12, 1966
Type: Movie
The USA pass an exceptional top secret contract with a country in the Middle East: they are selling arms in exchange for exclusive rights on the countries rich oil resources. The USSR sent a team of their best secret agents to rob the document, so that later they can apprehend the ship which must pass through one of the Russian ports... After special training in a secret island in the Black Sea, Alex, Sadov and Sonia are sent in to get the documents. All goes according to plan, and Sadov gives the handbag to the mastermind, General Fiodorenko. On opening it though, the handbag explodes. Who is the infiltrated agent in the most secret of the Soviets secret ring?
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Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Title: Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Character: Mikhailovic's Boss
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution! The charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control! Those assisting him though have an agenda far beyond a simple dictatorship of a inconsequential banana republic! They’re scheming to put the entire world at their mercy through the mad scientist Karlesten’s efforts to develop a deadly missile-carried gas! And only one man can stop him! Walter Ross, Agent 3S3! And he not only has a license to kill, but also a license to spank!
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The She Beast
Title: The She Beast
Character: Count von Helsing
Released: May 2, 1966
Type: Movie
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
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Modesty Blaise
Title: Modesty Blaise
Character: Oleg
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: Producer
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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The Amazing Doctor G
Title: The Amazing Doctor G
Character: Stevenson
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
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Crack in the World
Title: Crack in the World
Character: Dr. Reynolds
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
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The Dolls
Title: The Dolls
Character: Husband (segment "La minestra")
Released: January 27, 1965
Type: Movie
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
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Crypt of the Vampire
Title: Crypt of the Vampire
Character: Franz Karnstein (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1964
Type: Movie
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor, Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the mysterious deaths surrounding Laura after a carriage accident outside the castle forces her to stay. They become close friends until Laura becomes convinced the spirit of Carmilla is forcing her to kill.
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The Boom
Title: The Boom
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
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Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Title: Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Character: nazista
Released: September 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
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The Witch's Curse
Title: The Witch's Curse
Character: Burgomeister
Released: April 11, 1962
Type: Movie
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
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Pontius Pilate
Title: Pontius Pilate
Character: Roman Senator
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
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Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Title: Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Released: November 9, 1961
Type: Movie
The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.
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Battle of the Worlds
Title: Battle of the Worlds
Character: Supervising Commissioner
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. The station's scientists learn they must deal with a rogue planet -- "The Outsider" -- that has entered the solar system. which must be controlled by an alien intelligence… Professor Benson's(Claude Rains) expedition discovers a race of humanoid creatures dead...
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The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Title: The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Released: November 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.