Marcello Giorda

Marcello Giorda

Born: January 19, 1890
Died: April 21, 1960
in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Movies for Marcello Giorda...

The Nun of Monza
Title: The Nun of Monza
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
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Messalina
Title: Messalina
Character: Claudio
Released: March 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
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The Great War
Title: The Great War
Character: Generale
Released: October 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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The Black Chapel
Title: The Black Chapel
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: Movie
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
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Vacations in Majorca
Title: Vacations in Majorca
Character: The Duke of Maurino
Released: August 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
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The Law
Title: The Law
Released: January 25, 1959
Type: Movie
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
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Il marito
Title: Il marito
Character: onorevole Tocci
Released: February 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.
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The Doll that Took the Town
Title: The Doll that Took the Town
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
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The Sword and the Cross
Title: The Sword and the Cross
Released: December 13, 1956
Type: Movie
Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
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Flucht in die Dolomiten
Title: Flucht in die Dolomiten
Character: Massaro
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Seducer
Title: The Seducer
Character: Colonnello Dozzi Palù
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
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An American in Rome
Title: An American in Rome
Character: Elderly spectator on TV
Released: December 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in the early '50s Roma. He is completely crazy for everything that comes from the States. He tries to speak American-English (the most funny ever), to wear like he thinks Americans do, to walk like John Wayne, trying to eat cornflakes with ketchup... His life is a complete parody of the real American way of life, which he couldn't ever get.
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Una parigina a Roma
Title: Una parigina a Roma
Character: Sandi, padre di Fiorella
Released: November 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
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Il prigioniero del re
Title: Il prigioniero del re
Character: La Rabaudière
Released: July 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
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La campana di San Giusto
Title: La campana di San Giusto
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
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Traviata 53
Title: Traviata 53
Character: ingegner Rivelli
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
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Processo contro ignoti
Title: Processo contro ignoti
Character: Il giudice istruttore Aldo Ranieri
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
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Il tallone di Achille
Title: Il tallone di Achille
Released: August 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
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Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Title: Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Character: Sindaco
Released: March 4, 1952
Type: Movie
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La mano della morta
Title: La mano della morta
Character: Direttore d'orchestra
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
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The Revenge of Baccarat
Title: The Revenge of Baccarat
Released: April 23, 1948
Type: Movie
In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.
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Rocambole
Title: Rocambole
Released: April 8, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.
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Albergo Luna, camera 34
Title: Albergo Luna, camera 34
Released: August 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
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Rigoletto
Title: Rigoletto
Character: Monterone
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.
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Il fabbro del convento
Title: Il fabbro del convento
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
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Torna a Sorrento
Title: Torna a Sorrento
Released: November 7, 1945
Type: Movie
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Rita da Cascia
Title: Rita da Cascia
Character: Antonio
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.
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Il nemico
Title: Il nemico
Character: Rodolfo Barney, former minister
Released: January 19, 1943
Type: Movie
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Fra' Diavolo
Title: Fra' Diavolo
Character: Generale
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.
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Beatrice Cenci
Title: Beatrice Cenci
Character: Presidente del Tribunale
Released: September 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
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Don Pasquale
Title: Don Pasquale
Character: Il notaio
Released: September 16, 1940
Type: Movie
In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Title: Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Character: King Syphace
Released: August 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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The Last Days of Pompeo
Title: The Last Days of Pompeo
Character: Il commissario
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
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L'albero di Adamo
Title: L'albero di Adamo
Character: duca Santori
Released: January 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.
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Campo di Maggio
Title: Campo di Maggio
Character: Cambronne
Released: March 4, 1935
Type: Movie
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Night of the Storm
Title: Night of the Storm
Released: November 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Melodrama, about a father and son sharing the love for the same charming girl. A dramatic night storm leads to jealousy and loss of honor.