The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alessandro Blasetti
European Nights AKA Europa di notte (1959) Alessandro Blasetti, Alba Arnova, The Princesse Badia, Dolly Bell
A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Read More »
Un giorno nella vita (1946) Alessandro Blasetti, Elisa Cegani, Massimo Girotti, Mariella Lotti
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. Read More »
The Anatomy of Love AKA Tempi nostri – Zibaldone n. 2 (1954) Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot, Vittorio De Sica, Dany Robin, François Périer
A five-part compilation film. in “The Baby,” a poverty-ridden couple with children decides Read More »
Responsibility Comes Back (1945) Alessandro Blasetti, Elisa Cegani, Valentina Cortese, María Denis
In 1939, after finishing his studies in a Roman convent boarding Read More »
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939) Alessandro Blasetti, Gino Cervi, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli
Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa Read More »
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama
It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
La cena delle beffe / The Jester’s Supper (1942) Alessandro Blasetti, Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti, Clara Calamai, Drama, Romance
In times of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Neri and Giannetto, two young Florentine, maintain a bitter rivalry. Read More »
Fabiola (1949) Alessandro Blasetti, Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel Simon, Drama, History
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola’s father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena.
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Palio (1932) Alessandro Blasetti, Leda Gloria, Laura Nucci, Guido Celano, Drama
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance’ to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe’ chanteuse. Read More »
Peccato che sia una canaglia / Too Bad She’s Bad (1954) Alessandro Blasetti, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Romance
Rome Cabbie Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) almost gets his cab stolen by two punks in the company of knockout Italiana Lina Stroppiani (Sophia Loren). Read More »
Altri tempi / Times Gone By (1952) Alessandro Blasetti, Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Riva, Enzo Staiola, Comedy, Drama, Music
The mood is set with the opening with excerpts from the Excelsior Ball, a famous ballet at the turn of the century that heralded the advances of the upcoming century Read More »
Vecchia guardia / Old Guard (1934) Alessandro Blasetti, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mino Doro, Franco Brambilla, Drama
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist “March on Rome”, in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town’s socialists.
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