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Tag Archives: Raf Vallone
El Cid (1961) Anthony Mann, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Epic movie of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (Charlton Heston) Read More »
A View from the Bridge AKA Vu du pont (1962) Sidney Lumet, Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton, Carol Lawrence
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice Read More »
Cannon for Cordoba (1970) Paul Wendkos, George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone
In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who’s been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Read More »
The Greek Tycoon (1978) J. Lee Thompson, Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone
Theo Tomasis, from humble beginnings, is an aging Greek shipping magnate who works on his own moral (or amoral as the case may be) code Read More »
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) Henry Levin, Arduino Maiuri, Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone
An outlandish science-fiction, comedy-thriller full of tongue-and-cheek action, ingenious gadgets in the James Bond style combining violence Read More »
Il cammino della speranza / The Path of Hope (1950) Pietro Germi, Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Saro Urzì, Drama, Adventure
Women wait anxiously at a minehead in Capodarso, Sicily. Their men are underground. The mine is closing and the miners refuse to come up unless the owner relents. Read More »
The Secret Invasion (1964) Roger Corman, Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Action, Drama, History
The Nazis imprison an Italian general who was planning to switch sides and turn over his army to the Allied side. Read More »
Phaedra (1962) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Drama
The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos’greatest competitor, is a bored woman and has a son from her first marriage. Thanos gives an expensive ring to Phaedra and soon he learns that his estranged son from his first marriage, Alexis, has left the University of Economics in London to dedicate to paint. Thanos asks Phaedra to travel to London to bring Alexis to meet him in Greece. When Phaedra meets Alexis, she falls in love with her stepson and seduces him. Their doomed love affair leads the family to a tragedy.
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Harlow (1965) Gordon Douglas, Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Biography, Drama, Romance
In this story, Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing, the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots. Refusing to descend to the casting couch for work, she finds that she is soon blacklisted from the industry. But an agent named Arthur sees something in Jean and begins representing her. For a long time, the jobs are scarce and consist mostly of receiving the pie in the face in low budget comedies. But Arthur’s belief in Jean never wavers and when she finally graduates to featured roles, the critics say that she cannot act, but she is unforgettable. Polishing the image as the girl next door, but with some fire, she begins her climb to the top and becomes the girl every woman wants to look like and every man wants to have. But her own life is a disaster – unlike her screen life.
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