Franco Balducci

Franco Balducci

Born: November 23, 1922
Died: June 7, 2001
in Perugia, Italy

Movies for Franco Balducci...

Black Journal
Title: Black Journal
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
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Destruction Force
Title: Destruction Force
Character: Nino
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...
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Manhunt in the City
Title: Manhunt in the City
Character: Alberto Pirazzini
Released: May 8, 1975
Type: Movie
A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
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Libera, My Love
Title: Libera, My Love
Character: The police commissioner
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: funzionario
Released: February 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
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The Last Four Days
Title: The Last Four Days
Character: Francesco Colombo
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
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Giordano Bruno
Title: Giordano Bruno
Character: Il secondino
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
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The Grand Duel
Title: The Grand Duel
Character: Bull's Friend
Released: December 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
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Don't Torture a Duckling
Title: Don't Torture a Duckling
Character: Mr. Spriano, Michele's Father
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
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The Sicilian Checkmate
Title: The Sicilian Checkmate
Character: Gaetano
Released: February 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
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1870
Title: 1870
Character: Remo Bezzi
Released: January 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.
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I due pezzi da 90
Title: I due pezzi da 90
Character: Ispettore Clermont
Released: October 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco: Nico Cavallaro. The two do not know that this is a smuggler of drugs and that you want to serve them to transport the goods.
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Do Not Commit Adultery
Title: Do Not Commit Adultery
Released: September 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine. One day Pino sees Maria Teresa studying Latin and starts giving her some lessons. Soon they fall in love.
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Cross Current
Title: Cross Current
Character: Sante Foschi
Released: August 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: McKenna
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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Brancaleone at the Crusades
Title: Brancaleone at the Crusades
Released: December 24, 1970
Type: Movie
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
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A Man Called Sledge
Title: A Man Called Sledge
Character: Un carcerato
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour
Title: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour
Character: Fred Corleone
Released: October 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Pedro, a handsome gynecologist who lives in Toledo (Spain), does not have just a clientele due to the jealousy that his sex appeal causes in the husbands and boyfriends of his patients. To make matters worse, his mother still treats him like a child and the traditionalist members of his girlfriend's family don't look kindly upon Pedro. But on a trip to Madrid to attend a conference on medicine he meets Antón, his effeminate neighbor of the fifth floor, whose fashion boutique for women thrives thanks to the complicity he knows to establish with his customers.
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Metello
Title: Metello
Character: Chellini
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...
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Operation Snafu
Title: Operation Snafu
Released: March 3, 1970
Type: Movie
World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.
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Night of the Serpent
Title: Night of the Serpent
Character: Luciano
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by mistake, who is chosen for the task, instead decides to take the defence of the poor child.
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One on Top of the Other
Title: One on Top of the Other
Character: Officer Loveday
Released: August 15, 1969
Type: Movie
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
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A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
Title: A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
Character: Brent
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered.
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A Long Ride from Hell
Title: A Long Ride from Hell
Character: Mason
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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Title: The Odyssey
Character: Mentore
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: TV
Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.
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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Title: A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Character: Kraut henchman
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
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Django, Prepare a Coffin
Title: Django, Prepare a Coffin
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
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Day of Anger
Title: Day of Anger
Character: Slim
Released: December 19, 1967
Type: Movie
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
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Death Rides a Horse
Title: Death Rides a Horse
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
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Last of the Badmen
Title: Last of the Badmen
Character: Francisco
Released: August 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Kitosch is charged with a crime he did not commit and joins up with Joshua Tracy, a vicious outlaw. When Tracy kidnaps and blackmails his former employer Kitosch redeems himself by saving them.
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Wanted
Title: Wanted
Character: Cuzack
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
A local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one and tries to prove his innocence.
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The Big Blackout
Title: The Big Blackout
Character: Martin
Released: November 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Secret agent Perry Grant is called in to investigate a strange case which involves counterfeit money, industrial espionage, and a fashion company that may be functioning as a front for a secret criminal organization.
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The Queens
Title: The Queens
Character: First Motorist ("Fata Sabina") (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.
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The Upper Hand
Title: The Upper Hand
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: The Driver (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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I Kill, You Kill
Title: I Kill, You Kill
Character: Alex (segment "Il Plenilunio")
Released: March 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon
Title: Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon
Character: Mobsab / Behar - Tanit's Escort
Released: December 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Hercules goes to Babylon to rescue the Queen of the Hellenes and free the people of Babylon from slavery.
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The Revenge of the Crusader
Title: The Revenge of the Crusader
Released: December 24, 1964
Type: Movie
After wedding the beautiful Genoveffa, Count Sigfrido of Treviri employs his right-hand man to look after his bride while he's away fighting in the crusades, unaware that his supposed friend has plans of his own for the new countess.
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Title: Vita di Michelangelo
Character: Leonardo da Vinci
Released: December 13, 1964
Type: TV
A mini series about the great artist's life.
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The Pirates of Malaysia
Title: The Pirates of Malaysia
Character: Sambigliong
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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Romeo e Giulietta
Title: Romeo e Giulietta
Character: Benvolio
Released: August 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
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Arms of the Avenger
Title: Arms of the Avenger
Character: Maraldo - capitano del duca
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Soldato austriaco (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Warriors Five
Title: Warriors Five
Character: Conti
Released: September 30, 1962
Type: Movie
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
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La bellezza di Ippolita
Title: La bellezza di Ippolita
Released: September 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Luca, a petrol dealer, marries a magazine dancer, Ippolita, a girl who likes to be courted by the many passing motorists. One day, the woman discovers that her husband has betrayed her with Adriana. Ippolita decides her revenge: she assures Luke that she will keep her duties as a wife only when she too has allowed herself similar distractions. Through a series of animated events, the two resume married life: but Luca will not be able to know if Ippolita was really unfaithful to him.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Character: Verus
Released: August 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.
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Duel of the Titans
Title: Duel of the Titans
Released: December 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
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Conqueror of the Orient
Title: Conqueror of the Orient
Character: Nureddin - Nadir's Companion
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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The Lovemakers
Title: The Lovemakers
Character: Tognaccio
Released: June 13, 1961
Type: Movie
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.
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Pigeon Shoot
Title: Pigeon Shoot
Character: Garrani
Released: May 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime in decay.
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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: il tedesco nel pagliaio
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
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The Hunchback
Title: The Hunchback
Character: Pellaccia
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
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The Big Night
Title: The Big Night
Character: Eliseo
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time.  It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...
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You're on Your Own
Title: You're on Your Own
Released: September 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
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The Head of a Tyrant
Title: The Head of a Tyrant
Character: Galaad
Released: February 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city.
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L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Title: L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Released: June 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a small sea village where he meets people of various kinds.
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Nights of Cabiria
Title: Nights of Cabiria
Character: Spectator on the Stage of the Cinema (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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Ciao pais..!
Title: Ciao pais..!
Character: Amleto
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
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I cinque dell'Adamello
Title: I cinque dell'Adamello
Character: Renato
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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Black Devils of Kali
Title: Black Devils of Kali
Character: Kammamuri
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
An adventure set deep in the Indian jungle as explorers seek out an ancient idol.
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Mystery of the Black Jungle
Title: Mystery of the Black Jungle
Character: Kammamuri
Released: February 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A group of religious fanatics in India, the Tughs, prey upon Europeans and natives alike, capturing and offering them up in sacrifice to their frightful goddess, Kali. The Governor of the Province sends Tremal Naik, a famous Indian hunter,on an expedition to end the savagery.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Ami d'Antonio
Released: July 12, 1953
Type: Movie
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Sangue sul sagrato
Title: Sangue sul sagrato
Released: December 13, 1952
Type: Movie
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Son of the Hunchback
Title: Son of the Hunchback
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge.
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Milady and the Musketeers
Title: Milady and the Musketeers
Character: un sicario di Milady
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
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Stranger on the Prowl
Title: Stranger on the Prowl
Character: Morelli
Released: March 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.
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Il bivio
Title: Il bivio
Character: Antonio Fioretti
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: Arizona Bill
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Title: Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Character: Un rivoluzionario
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.