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Woman of Rome *** (1954, Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Franco Fabrizi) – Classic Movie Review 11,077

‘Love was her profession… men were her career! ‘ Director Luigi Zampa’s classy 1954 black and white Italian romantic drama film Woman of Rome [La romana] stars Gina Lollobrigida in her glorious prime as the […]

Apr, 07

The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del Ragno] **** (1970, Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Tino Scotti, Pippo Campanini) – Classic Movie Review 10,794

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s stylish, complex and clever 1970 Italian political film The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del Ragno] is based on the story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (Tema del traidor y del héroe) […]

Jan, 15

The Battle of Neretva [Bitka na Neretvi] *** (1969, Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Curd Jürgens, Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles, Sergei Bondarchuk) – Classic Movie Review 9499

Director Veljko Bulajic’s 1969 historical war drama The Battle of Neretva [Bitka na Neretvi] features a star-studded international cast of Yul Brynner, Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens], Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero and […]

Mar, 12

Paisà [Paisan] ***** (1946, Carmela Sazio, Joseph Garland Moore Jr, William Tubbs, Maria Michi, Harriet Medin) – Classic Movie Review 7542

The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]

Sep, 04

Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] **** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley) – Classic Movie Review 776

Michael Powell’s 1957 film Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] with his long-term writing-producing-directing partner Emeric Pressburger is a stirring, old-style war adventure, telling a rattling good yarn, set in Crete in 1944. In the […]

Jan, 31

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