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Property Is No Longer a Theft [La proprietà non è più un furto] **** (1973, Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi) – Classic Movie Review 8610

The 1973 comedy drama Property Is No Longer a Theft [La proprietà non è più un furto] is the last film in Italian director Elio Petri’s essential Trilogy of Neurosis, starting with Investigation of a […]

Jun, 19

The Assassin [L’Assassino] *** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checci) – Classic Movie Review 8609

Director Elio Petri’s 1961 Italian black and white crime thriller The Assassin [L’Assassino] [The Ladykiller of Rome] stars Marcello Mastroianni as rich but dodgy antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, who is arrested and accused of murdering […]

Jun, 18

The Working Class Go to Heaven [La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso] ***** (1971, Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice) – Classic Movie Review 8607 –

Director Elio Petri’s 1971 film The Working Class Go to Heaven [La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso] stars Gian Maria Volontè as factory worker Lulù Massa, who upsets his co-workers and mistress Lidia (Mariangela Melato) […]

Jun, 18

The Mattei Affair ***** (1972, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 8606

Director Francesco Rosi’s 1972 biographical docudrama The Mattei Affair [Il Caso Mattei] stars Gian Maria Volontè, who is superb as Italian socialist oil mogul Enrico Mattei in Rosi’s masterly biopic of the World War Two […]

Jun, 18

Barnabo of the Mountains [Barnabo delle Montagne] **** (1994, Marco Pauletti, Duilio Fontana, Carlo Caserotti) – Classic Movie Review 8600

Marco Pauletti stars as mountain man Barnabo in co-writer/ director Mario Brenta’s extraordinary, atmospheric, poetic Italian neo-realist mountain movie that does require some patience and understanding, but it will reward it. It is remarkable as […]

Jun, 17

Shoeshine [Sciuscià] ***** (1946, Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele) – Classic Movie Review 8450

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]

May, 09

Darby’s Rangers [The Young Invaders] *** (1958, James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden, Edd Byrnes, Venetia Stevenson, Torin Thatcher, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 8327

‘MAVERICK himself – in his first starring big-screen role!’ The young James Garner plays Major (later Colonel) William Darby and Jack Warden co-stars as Master Sergeant Saul Rosen, and they are among the members of […]

Apr, 02

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