Renato Montalbano

Renato Montalbano

Born: May 17, 1931
in Catania, Sicily, Italy

Movies for Renato Montalbano...

Se non avessi l'amore
Title: Se non avessi l'amore
Released: December 24, 1991
Type: Movie
The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.
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Prickly Pears
Title: Prickly Pears
Character: dottore della compagnia assicurativa
Released: October 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house. The result is an endless series of gags and misunderstandings, due to the stratagems devised by Lorenzo to avoid that the situation becomes the subject of gossip by fellow citizens ...
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Towards Zero
Title: Towards Zero
Character: Sovraintendente Battle
Released: May 13, 1980
Type: Movie
Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
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Con gli occhi dell'occidente
Title: Con gli occhi dell'occidente
Character: Professore
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Jesus of Nazareth
Character: Jairus
Released: March 27, 1977
Type: TV
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
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Blood and Bullets
Title: Blood and Bullets
Character: 'Looney' Toledo
Released: December 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A deadly manhunt takes three people through the sordid streets of the Philadelphia underworld, in search of killers and the truth, where every clue brings new questions.
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The Messiah
Title: The Messiah
Character: Matthew
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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Title: War at the Peace Table
Character: James F. Byrnes
Released: June 18, 1975
Type: TV
A RAI television miniseries that reconstructs the Allied Conferences held during the World War II, from Placentia Bay (1941) to Potsdam (1945).
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Year One
Title: Year One
Released: November 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
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Cartesius
Title: Cartesius
Character: Constantin Huygens
Released: February 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Rossellini's interpretation of Descartes' life.
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The Assassination of Matteotti
Title: The Assassination of Matteotti
Character: conte Giacomo Suardo
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: Movie
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
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Satiricosissimo
Title: Satiricosissimo
Character: guardia imperiale
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
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Zorro, the Navarra Marquis
Title: Zorro, the Navarra Marquis
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.
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The Sweet Body of Deborah
Title: The Sweet Body of Deborah
Character: Telephone Man
Released: March 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, threaten his new fiancée's life. George Hilton plays a peculiar neighbor with voyeuristic tendencies who has an obsession with Deborah.
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Assault on the State Treasure
Title: Assault on the State Treasure
Released: August 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world are in charge to rob it. An undefined intelligence agency tries to stop them. An infiltrator is not sure for who is working. A complicate twist is waiting beyond the corner and will include a love affair too.
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Cuore matto... matto da legare
Title: Cuore matto... matto da legare
Released: July 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.
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$10,000 for a Massacre
Title: $10,000 for a Massacre
Released: March 3, 1967
Type: Movie
After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.
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Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Title: Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore
Character: Renato
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
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A Million Dollars for 7 Murders
Title: A Million Dollars for 7 Murders
Released: November 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula.
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Ring Around the World
Title: Ring Around the World
Released: November 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a globe-hopping escapade featuring a plane-and-parachute stunt later repeated in the James Bond film Moonraker.
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Lo scandalo
Title: Lo scandalo
Released: October 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.
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Star Pilot
Title: Star Pilot
Character: The Doctor at the casualty department (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
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Almost a Man
Title: Almost a Man
Released: September 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
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War Between the Planets
Title: War Between the Planets
Character: -
Released: July 29, 1966
Type: Movie
Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
Title: The Hawks and the Sparrows
Character: San Francesco
Released: May 4, 1966
Type: Movie
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
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Lightning Bolt
Title: Lightning Bolt
Character: Mills of Security Section
Released: April 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.
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James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Title: James Tont Operation T.W.O.
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.
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The Mandrake
Title: The Mandrake
Character: l'archeologo
Released: November 18, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
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The Dolls
Title: The Dolls
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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One Million Dollars
Title: One Million Dollars
Character: Dino
Released: December 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs as does the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro, her former boyfriend is following and plans to hi-jack the loot, leaving Jane empty handed.
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I due toreri
Title: I due toreri
Released: December 3, 1964
Type: Movie
In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
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Revolt of the Praetorians
Title: Revolt of the Praetorians
Character: Sotero
Released: September 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact, the Red Wolf is Valerius Rufus, one of the Emperor's trusted centurions who's aided by none other than the Emperor's court jester, the diminutive Elpidion. Rebels in league with Valerius kidnap Artamne, planning to exchange her for two of their imprisoned colleagues, but Artamne escapes and soon both Valerius, (now exposed as the Red Wolf), and his fiancee, Lucilla, are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead. Valerius's friends, however, rise up to rescue him and to liberate Rome.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Title: What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Character: portalettere
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.
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The Monster of the Opera
Title: The Monster of the Opera
Character: Tony
Released: June 30, 1964
Type: Movie
A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Released: November 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
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The Secret Seven
Title: The Secret Seven
Character: Aristocrat
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group of mercenaries, without listening to his brother, who begs her to join the fight for freedom.
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Slave Girls of Sheba
Title: Slave Girls of Sheba
Character: Sultan of Constantinople
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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The Conjugal Bed
Title: The Conjugal Bed
Released: April 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
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La bella di Lodi
Title: La bella di Lodi
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi.
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A Man for Burning
Title: A Man for Burning
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
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Mamma Roma
Title: Mamma Roma
Character: Nurse
Released: September 22, 1962
Type: Movie
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.
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Hong Kong Hot Harbor
Title: Hong Kong Hot Harbor
Released: May 22, 1962
Type: Movie
German journalist Peter Holberg arrives in Hong Kong and, by accident, he is carrying a microfilm that was destined to local gang lord, Marek. Peter is helped by another German journalist, Joan Kent, and falls in love with a night-club dancer, Colette. Colette is actually working for Marek, but betrays the gang for love - at the ultimate cost to her. The HK Police will intervene just in time to prevent Peter from further losses.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: uomo tarchiato col ferro rovente
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
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Cronache del '22
Title: Cronache del '22
Character: fascista
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
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Conqueror of the Orient
Title: Conqueror of the Orient
Released: September 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.
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Psycosissimo
Title: Psycosissimo
Character: Dottore
Released: February 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
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Viva l'Italia!
Title: Viva l'Italia!
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
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Love in Rome
Title: Love in Rome
Released: November 24, 1960
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
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The Black Archer
Title: The Black Archer
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.
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Il padrone delle ferriere
Title: Il padrone delle ferriere
Released: March 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
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Fantasmi e ladri
Title: Fantasmi e ladri
Character: tassista
Released: February 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.
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Title: L'isola del tesoro
Character: Rolf
Released: February 7, 1959
Type: TV
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Herod the Great
Title: Herod the Great
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.
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La nipote Sabella
Title: La nipote Sabella
Character: dottore al brefotrofio
Released: November 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
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The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Title: The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Character: Fabrizio
Released: October 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Title: Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1958
Type: Movie
The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
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The Third
Title: The Third
Character: The Pickpocket
Released: August 22, 1958
Type: Movie
A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
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È arrivata la parigina
Title: È arrivata la parigina
Released: June 26, 1958
Type: Movie
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
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Via col para... vento
Title: Via col para... vento
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Mysteries of Paris
Title: The Mysteries of Paris
Released: August 21, 1957
Type: Movie
Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
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The Black Devil
Title: The Black Devil
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
The Spaniards under Charles V aim to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitorous allies like Don Lorenzo. Lorenzo conspires to marry off his supposed niece Isabella to Charles V’s nephew, Prince Rodriguez, to confirm Spain’s dominance. The Black Devil, a heroic masked avenger, falls in love with the fake Isabella and takes vengeance on Lorenzo with the help of his friend Ruggerio and his men.
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The Guilty
Title: The Guilty
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and protective mother. From their union only one child was born: Maurizio. Both parents raise him completely differently, highlighting their character differences. Until the day when Maurizio, now a teenager, together with a friend commits an attack for futile reasons against a gas station attendant. Having learned of the incident, Valerio and Lucia also in this case intend to face the situation in a diametrically opposite way. The conflicts within the family thus strongly resurface, in which, amidst rebounds of responsibility, the errors of both parents emerge in the upbringing of their child.
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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Title: Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Released: December 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
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Occhi senza luce
Title: Occhi senza luce
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.