Mimmo Palmara

Mimmo Palmara

Born: July 25, 1928
Died: June 10, 2016
in Cagliari, Italy
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Born in Cagliari, Palmara made his film debut in 1952 as character actor in drama films by eminent directors such as Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Antonio Pietrangeli, then obtained main roles in a great number of genre films, especially adventure films and peplum films., When the sword and sandals genre declined, he took part at a number of spaghetti westerns in which he is usually credited as Dick Palmer. A close friend of Sergio Leone, he was the Leone's first choice for the role of Ramon in A Fistful of Dollars; Palmara eventually chose to star in Mario Caiano's Bullets Don't Argue and the role of Ramon was played by Gian Maria Volontè.

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FantastiCozzi
Title: FantastiCozzi
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen: Der Italowestern
Title: Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen: Der Italowestern
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2006
Type: Movie
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in the taste of many.
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Western all'italiana
Title: Western all'italiana
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the video, the birth, evolution and conclusion of the Italian western trend is told.
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Italian Kings Of B
Title: Italian Kings Of B
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
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Jesus
Title: Jesus
Character: Satana
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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28° minuto
Title: 28° minuto
Character: Police commissioner
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Thriller inspired by the "Monster of Florence" case
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The Shatterer
Title: The Shatterer
Released: June 13, 1987
Type: Movie
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
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Convoy Busters
Title: Convoy Busters
Character: Corchi
Released: December 23, 1978
Type: Movie
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.
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Holiday Hookers
Title: Holiday Hookers
Character: Alberto
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Madame is running a high class escort (and prostitution) service. She wants to quit the business as soon as she makes enough money to make her dreams come true. However, the relationship with her girls is deteriorating.
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That Malicious Age
Title: That Malicious Age
Character: Spanish fisherman
Released: March 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
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Chains
Title: Chains
Character: Giovanni
Released: April 25, 1974
Type: Movie
Catene is a 1974 Italian melodramatic film directed by Silvio Amadio. The film is the re-make of the 1949 top grossing film with the same title by Raffaello Matarazzo. It was a commercial failure, grossing about 60 million lire.
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The Arena
Title: The Arena
Character: Rufinius
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
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Title: Door Into Darkness
Character: The Neighbor
Released: September 4, 1973
Type: TV
Italian anthology horror miniseries conceived by Dario Argento.
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Panhandle 38
Title: Panhandle 38
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 8, 1972
Type: Movie
The son of an aging gunfighter returns home with a shipment of confederate gold.
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And His Name Was Holy Ghost
Title: And His Name Was Holy Ghost
Character: Indian
Released: November 26, 1971
Type: Movie
After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a Native American sheriff is on his trail.
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Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
Title: Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
Character: Luis / Louis / Frank Damon
Released: July 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A grim, merciless gunfighter known as Santana protects a young woman from the murderers of her family members and at the same time pursues a revenge against a traitor responsible for the death of his fellow soldiers years before.
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The Tigers of Mompracem
Title: The Tigers of Mompracem
Character: Man Saved from Crocodiles
Released: December 11, 1970
Type: Movie
After the evil maharajah Varauni exterminated his whole family, the brave Sandokan decides to retreat on the island of Mompracem to meditate a terrible revenge against him
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The Crook
Title: The Crook
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
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Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Title: Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Character: Il Pirata Flint
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
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Isabella, Duchess of the Devils
Title: Isabella, Duchess of the Devils
Character: Baron Eric von Nutter
Released: August 30, 1969
Type: Movie
An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.
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Indovina chi viene a merenda?
Title: Indovina chi viene a merenda?
Character: Comandante Tiger
Released: April 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
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Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Indian Joe
Released: October 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Black Jack Murphy is the brains in an outfit of outlaws who rob the bank at Tusca City. All goes to plan with the heist but once the loot is safely obtained Jack's men lose no time in trying to double cross him. Wily Jack manages to outfox them at first and gets away with the cash but they soon catch up with him again and not only make off with the money but leave him crippled and carrying multiple causes for wanting revenge. This need for amends possesses Jack with an all consuming passion and he sets out to get even with each of his unfaithful former compadres but has his particular sights set on Indian Joe and Sanchez who abused and killed his beloved sister.
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Son of Black Eagle
Title: Son of Black Eagle
Character: Alexej Andrejevich
Released: August 23, 1968
Type: Movie
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Dead for a Dollar
Title: Dead for a Dollar
Character: Frank Richards
Released: August 17, 1968
Type: Movie
When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back and forth game plays out as the men try to get the money for themselves. But another player, the heir of the sneaky gang leader, is also on the hunt...
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Execution
Title: Execution
Character: Clint Clips
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one.
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Psychopath
Title: Psychopath
Character: Maurice
Released: April 15, 1968
Type: Movie
The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for his services.
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Tequila Joe
Title: Tequila Joe
Character: Rock Mulligan
Released: April 5, 1968
Type: Movie
A young deputy tries to sober and revitalize a washed up, alcoholic sheriff to take down a pair of warring gangs of criminals in the Old West.
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A Long Ride from Hell
Title: A Long Ride from Hell
Character: Max Freeman
Released: April 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.
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A Rope for a Bastard
Title: A Rope for a Bastard
Character: Sheriff Alan Phillip
Released: April 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A sheriff saves an innocent man from the gallows and brings the guilty party to justice.
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Title: The Odyssey
Character: Achille
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: TV
Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.
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Shotgun
Title: Shotgun
Character: Jack Owen
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
In a small western town our hero Durango delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Masson
Released: October 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
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The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
Title: The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
Character: Il bello
Released: August 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look for it.
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Poker with Pistols
Title: Poker with Pistols
Character: Master
Released: July 7, 1967
Type: Movie
After losing everything in a poker game and finding himself indebted, Lucas agrees to deliver a wagon to the town of Chamaco for the $5000 payment. He soon finds himself in deep trouble with bandits, the town's local kingpin and a pretty saloon worker.
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Argoman the Fantastic Superman
Title: Argoman the Fantastic Superman
Character: Kurt, Main Henchman of Jenabel
Released: March 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Argoman is practically invincible with powers beyond the scope of mortal man. Who is Sir Reginald Hoover, he seems to know what mission Argoman is involved with? Will Jenabell become the Queen of the World and achieve her wishes to outsmart Argoman?
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Two Sons of Ringo
Title: Two Sons of Ringo
Character: Sceriffo
Released: December 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
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For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
Title: For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
Character: Steve Benson
Released: March 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Hud's parents were murdered, their land stolen and now Hud will dish out justice to the guilty - the three Clark brothers know they are in danger but they don't know from where the blow will come.
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Left Handed Johnny West
Title: Left Handed Johnny West
Character: Johnny West
Released: August 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Lone gunman Johnny West and his dog, Gypsy, fall foul of twin bad men who have designs on a gold mine. After having his gun hand crushed Johnny is joined by 2 feuding ex boxers and their explosive expert sidekick as they all take on the villains, restore the mine to it's rightful inheritor and face down the twins, one of whom attempts to outwit them using a clever coffin trick.
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Serenade for Two Spies
Title: Serenade for Two Spies
Character: Cormoran
Released: August 18, 1965
Type: Movie
An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has defected to the enemy. Since agent 007 is currently on another mission, the chief of intelligence has to fall back on his second best man, the previous number 006. And so the German secret agent John Krim is given the assignment to get the rifle back, find evidence of Cormoran’s treachery and finally eliminate the colleague. Krim’s journey takes him across the ocean, and there he experiences incredible adventures in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Two women get in his way, and Krim can’t be sure whether he can trust them or whether they too are working for the other side.
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Kindar the Invulnerable
Title: Kindar the Invulnerable
Character: saymuth
Released: March 5, 1965
Type: Movie
An evil bandit kidnaps a sultan's son and raises him but finds the son has magic powers.
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Three Swords for Rome
Title: Three Swords for Rome
Character: Massimo
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Peplum movie from 1964
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3 Avengers
Title: 3 Avengers
Character: False Ursus
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne.
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The Pirates of Malaysia
Title: The Pirates of Malaysia
Character: Tremal-Naïk
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.
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Bullets Don't Argue
Title: Bullets Don't Argue
Character: Santero
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
On his own wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett must leave and try to arrest two bank robbers.
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The Two Gladiators
Title: The Two Gladiators
Character: Commodus
Released: July 10, 1964
Type: Movie
The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
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Hercules Against Rome
Title: Hercules Against Rome
Character: Lucio Traiano
Released: May 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by the leader of the pretorian guards.
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Temple of the White Elephant
Title: Temple of the White Elephant
Character: Sandok
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
In British colonial India, Lt. Dick Ramsay is charged with secretly rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the British viceroy of India and her fiancée, a fellow British officer from a cult of murderers who worship a white elephant. While on his mission he meets Princess Dhara and her man servant and protector, Parvati Sandok. Princess Dhara's brother has also been taken captive by the Cult of the White Elephant. Princess Dhara and Parvati Sandok aid Lt. Ramsay in his mission to free the captives and put an end to the cult's reign of terror.
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The Ten Gladiators
Title: The Ten Gladiators
Character: Tigelinus
Released: December 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
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Goliath and the Sins of Babylon
Title: Goliath and the Sins of Babylon
Character: Alceas
Released: December 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.
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Hercules and the Masked Rider
Title: Hercules and the Masked Rider
Character: Don Juan
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the war in Flanders. Don Juan dons a mask and joins with a gypsy band led by Estella to fight against the forces of Don Ramiro.
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The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
Title: The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules
Character: Artafernes
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Italian sword & sandal thrills as the son of Hercules is pitted against an evil king and his wretched followers.
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Slave Girls of Sheba
Title: Slave Girls of Sheba
Character: Hibrahim / Jaspar
Released: May 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also buy female slaves and end up fighting over them.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Title: Sodom and Gomorrah
Character: Arno
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
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Appuntamento in Riviera
Title: Appuntamento in Riviera
Character: Ingegnere De Marchi
Released: June 30, 1962
Type: Movie
In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years.
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Colussus and the Huns
Title: Colussus and the Huns
Released: March 29, 1962
Type: Movie
King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, strongest of the neighboring rulers. Haadem, however, is just concluding an alliance with Kudrum, the ambitious son of a king hostile to Hun interests. To cement this alliance, Haadem has agreed to marry his daughter, Tamall, to Kudrun, but Tamall dislikes Kudrum. She quickly falls in love with the newly-arrived Tharus. Kudrum inflames Haadem's feelings against Tharus and arranges to have Tharus publicly flogged. Not satisfied, Kudrum then murders Haadem and has the crime blamed on Tharus. Tamall's love for Tharus is tested but then she comes to believe Tharus's claims of innocence and works on behalf of Tharus as Kudrum's forces arrive for a decisive battle.
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The Trojan Horse
Title: The Trojan Horse
Character: Ajax
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Trojan hero Aeneas battles to save his city from the Greeks, but once Troy falls, he leads the 600 survivors to Italy and founds the city of Rome.
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Hercules and the Captive Women
Title: Hercules and the Captive Women
Character: Astor, il Gran Visir
Released: August 19, 1961
Type: Movie
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
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The Colossus of Rhodes
Title: The Colossus of Rhodes
Character: Ares
Released: June 15, 1961
Type: Movie
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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Gastone
Title: Gastone
Character: manager
Released: January 26, 1960
Type: Movie
During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Gallinus, a Praetorian Guard
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
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Sign of the Gladiator
Title: Sign of the Gladiator
Character: Lator
Released: March 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
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Hercules Unchained
Title: Hercules Unchained
Character: Polinice
Released: February 14, 1959
Type: Movie
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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Hercules
Title: Hercules
Character: Iphitus, Son of Pelias
Released: February 20, 1958
Type: Movie
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
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Le Notti Bianche
Title: Le Notti Bianche
Character: L'Uomo Che Gioca a Carte con la Prostituta (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1957
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
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Roland the Mighty
Title: Roland the Mighty
Character: Argalia
Released: December 6, 1956
Type: Movie
In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Released: September 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.
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Senso
Title: Senso
Character: Un Soldato (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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Woman of the River
Title: Woman of the River
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.
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Attila
Title: Attila
Character: Lottatore
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
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Empty Eyes
Title: Empty Eyes
Character: Marcella's Fiancé
Released: September 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
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The Queen of Sheba
Title: The Queen of Sheba
Character: Ally of Sheba
Released: November 6, 1952
Type: Movie
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.