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Director Vittorio De Sica’s superbad 1968 Italian-French romantic film A Place for Lovers [Amanti] is Love Story with an Italian backdrop. It stars stars beautiful people Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni, and is often judged one of […]
Director Luigi Capuano’s 1963 The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] is colourful Italian swashbuckling pirate adventure nonsense with Gordon Scott as the Venetian Doge’s son Manrico Venier, the heir to great […]
Director George Roy Hill’s sweet and entertaining 1979 romantic comedy movie stars Laurence Olivier as Julius, an old storytelling pickpocket who befriends a couple of teenage brats and gets them to run away with him […]
Director Henry Cass’s poignant popular 1949 love story romantic drama stars Michael Denison as the married English composer Richard Wilder, who is moved to write an opera by two of Italy’s greatest delights – the […]
The ever-suave Robert Vaughn and smooth Sixties spy intrigue thrillers of course went together perfectly. He was a big star in 1966 – this action espionage thriller was simply advertised as ‘Vaughn! Venice! Vooom!’ It was […]
After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]
Director Joseph Losey’s beautiful looking, smart and clever 1962 erotic thriller is based on the 1945 novel Eve by James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, his first book filmed in 1948 […]