Victor Rietti

Victor Rietti

Born: February 28, 1888
Died: December 3, 1963
in Ferrara, Italy

Movies for Victor Rietti...

Title: The Saint
Character: Count Alzerno
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Naked Truth
Title: The Naked Truth
Character: Doctor
Released: December 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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Sinfonia fatale
Title: Sinfonia fatale
Character: Bepo
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
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Give Us the Moon
Title: Give Us the Moon
Character: Maître d (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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Hotel Reserve
Title: Hotel Reserve
Character: Restaurant Owner
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
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Thunder Rock
Title: Thunder Rock
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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21 Days Together
Title: 21 Days Together
Character: Antonio
Released: January 7, 1940
Type: Movie
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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London Melody
Title: London Melody
Character: Waiter
Released: February 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
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Jack of All Trades
Title: Jack of All Trades
Character: Head Waiter
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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Dusty Ermine
Title: Dusty Ermine
Character: Luggage Snatcher (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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Juggernaut
Title: Juggernaut
Character: Doctor Bousquet
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
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Where There's a Will
Title: Where There's a Will
Character: Maître D
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
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Shipmates o' Mine
Title: Shipmates o' Mine
Character: Photographer
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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The Ghost Goes West
Title: The Ghost Goes West
Character: Scientist
Released: December 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan. To clear his mounting debts, Donald sells the dilapidated pile to an American businessman, Mr Martin, who has the castle complete with the Glourie ghost transported and rebuilt in Florida. While old-world gentility rubs up comically against 20th-century materialism, Martin's daughter takes a liking to both Donald and Murdoch, convinced they are one and the same man...
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Heads We Go
Title: Heads We Go
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
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The Song You Gave Me
Title: The Song You Gave Me
Character: Nightclub Manager
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.