Franco Giacobini

Franco Giacobini

Born: March 15, 1926
Died: December 27, 2015

Movies for Franco Giacobini...

Carlo and Clara
Title: Carlo and Clara
Character: Carlo
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
In a curious-looking old hospital, an elderly couple, Carlo and Clara, is waiting for their turn tenderly holding hands. There is a choice to be made, and the woman begins to hesitate. Only the words of the loving Carlo will be able to transform fear into courage. At one point the setting makes way for animation, suggested and overlapped by the words of Clara. It leads the listener to a deep reflection on life. The brief evocation of the magic of existence is imprinted in the deeply moved smile of the woman, certain that life on Earth is nothing but a stage of eternity.
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Title: Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Scrivilo sui muri
Title: Scrivilo sui muri
Character: Anziano
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Sole, an university student bored of her daily routine, meets graffiti artists Pierpaolo and Alex and her life changes until she falls in love with one of them.
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Sing Sing
Title: Sing Sing
Character: il barone Orfeo della Torre
Released: October 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...
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I'm Getting a Yacht
Title: I'm Getting a Yacht
Character: Fugitive #1
Released: December 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.
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Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
Title: Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
Released: November 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.
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Pane, burro e marmellata
Title: Pane, burro e marmellata
Character: marito di Simona
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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Blackmail Chase
Title: Blackmail Chase
Character: Maresciallo
Released: April 2, 1976
Type: Movie
A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
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Il gatto mammone
Title: Il gatto mammone
Character: Priest
Released: December 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
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Witness to Murder
Title: Witness to Murder
Character: Inspector Delon
Released: April 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The director of a school is surprised by a student when murdering someone. He must kill the only eyewitness too, but his only clue is a number 32 shoeprint.
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Three Cheers for Us
Title: Three Cheers for Us
Character: Teacher
Released: January 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A story about ten year old Enrico who spends the summer in the village mostly playing Indians with his friends.
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Sonny and Jed
Title: Sonny and Jed
Character: Padre de jed
Released: August 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.
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It Can Be Done Amigo
Title: It Can Be Done Amigo
Character: L'uomo chi mangia la terra
Released: March 31, 1972
Type: Movie
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Title: Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Character: Boemondo
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
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Terzo canale - Avventura a Montecarlo
Title: Terzo canale - Avventura a Montecarlo
Character: Mechanic
Released: July 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A rock band called "The Trip" want to get to Montecarlo to take part in a festival. Due to a series of circumstances however they end up in the place they set about the journey from: Rome. There is a music festival on at The Terme of Caracalla and they sing there.
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The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Title: The Viking Who Became a Bigamist
Character: Roberto
Released: September 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The Italian Vittorio Coppa works as a sleeper car commuter and commutes regularly between Munich and Rome. Because he believes that true love exists only in connection with marriage, he is secretly married twice.
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The Fourth Wall
Title: The Fourth Wall
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Marco Baroni spent four years in an English school. When he returns to Rome, the behavior of his family members finds him unprepared: his father, mother and sister Marzia have changed so much that they have not been recognized. He is deeply troubled by their immoral behavior.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: Luca
Released: February 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine their life, to criticize one another on their achievements.
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The Mercenary
Title: The Mercenary
Character: Pepote
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Title: Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Character: Facchetti
Released: November 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Title: Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Character: Don Nicola, barbiere
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
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Man Only Cries for Love
Title: Man Only Cries for Love
Character: Marshal
Released: July 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks.
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L'idolo delle scene
Title: L'idolo delle scene
Character: Kaidatz
Released: December 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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I due vigili
Title: I due vigili
Character: Romoletto
Released: December 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
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Operation Kid Brother
Title: Operation Kid Brother
Character: Juan
Released: April 20, 1967
Type: Movie
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.
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Soldati e capelloni
Title: Soldati e capelloni
Character: Franco, il barbiere
Released: March 23, 1967
Type: Movie
An Italian music promoter has engaged an English rock band who wear their hair short, and since it is the 1960s, people don't like them. The band and the promoter wait for the hair to grow, but in the meantime the lads are called for military service and have their hair cut again. They decide to call themselves I Galeotti (the convicts).
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Tender Sharks
Title: Tender Sharks
Character: Fähnrich
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
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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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Le sedicenni
Title: Le sedicenni
Released: December 24, 1965
Type: Movie
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Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Title: Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Character: Kociss
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
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Assassination in Rome
Title: Assassination in Rome
Released: June 7, 1965
Type: Movie
In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
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I Kill, You Kill
Title: I Kill, You Kill
Character: Doctor (segment "Una boccata di fumo")
Released: March 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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Soldati e caporali
Title: Soldati e caporali
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
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Senza sole nè luna
Title: Senza sole nè luna
Character: Michele
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Gli onorevoli
Title: Gli onorevoli
Character: il segretario De Angelis
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
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The Swindlers
Title: The Swindlers
Character: The Lawyer Ovidio (segment "Società calcistica, La")
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
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The Ballad of Husbands
Title: The Ballad of Husbands
Character: Vicebrigadiere Licata
Released: September 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.
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Totò Sexy
Title: Totò Sexy
Character: Un galeotti
Released: September 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
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The Strange Type
Title: The Strange Type
Character: un giornalista
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Sergente maggiore (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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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
Character: Collector
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen.
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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Alberto
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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Le scorpion
Title: Le scorpion
Released: September 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Peter is commissioned by William to rob an Amsterdam bank. He wants to find out who li is working for. With the help of Corinne, a young prostitute, he investigates and approaches the bank.
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La bellezza di Ippolita
Title: La bellezza di Ippolita
Character: Aurelio
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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Lo smemorato di Collegno
Title: Lo smemorato di Collegno
Character: Giornalista
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
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Eighteen in the Sun
Title: Eighteen in the Sun
Character: Commissar
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
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Totò diabolicus
Title: Totò diabolicus
Character: Dottor Santoro
Released: April 7, 1962
Type: Movie
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.
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Crazy Desire
Title: Crazy Desire
Character: Carlo Alberghetti
Released: March 15, 1962
Type: Movie
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
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Il mio amico Benito
Title: Il mio amico Benito
Character: Liberati
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
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His Women
Title: His Women
Character: commissario
Released: December 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
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The Two Marshals
Title: The Two Marshals
Character: Basilio Meneghetti, il ladro di galline
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.
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On the Tiger's Back
Title: On the Tiger's Back
Character: Medico del carcere
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
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Erik the Conqueror
Title: Erik the Conqueror
Character: Rustichello
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
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Cronache del '22
Title: Cronache del '22
Character: ufficiale pagatore
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
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Hercules in the Haunted World
Title: Hercules in the Haunted World
Character: Telemachus (Telemaco)
Released: November 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.
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The Orderly
Title: The Orderly
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta.
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The Fascist
Title: The Fascist
Character: Militare a Rocca Sabina
Released: August 5, 1961
Type: Movie
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
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Run with the Devil
Title: Run with the Devil
Released: August 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
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La Dolce Vita
Title: La Dolce Vita
Character: Journalist at the Telephone (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
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L'impiegato
Title: L'impiegato
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
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Uncle Was A Vampire
Title: Uncle Was A Vampire
Character: Il secondo play boy
Released: October 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle, staying on as a bellboy when it's converted into a hotel. However he becomes vampirized when his mysterious uncle comes to stay.
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I'll See You on the Balcony
Title: I'll See You on the Balcony
Character: Funzionario RAI
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
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.