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Tag Archives: Rossano Brazzi
The Story of Tosca AKA Tosca (1941) Carl Koch, Jean Renoir, Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi
Non-musical account of Puccini’s opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love Read More »
Black Crown AKA La corona negra (1951) Luis Saslavsky, María Félix, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman
A young engineer, Andrés, welcomes a young woman, María, who suffers from amnesia. Read More »
Summertime (1955) David Lean, Katharine Hepburn
The American secretary Jane Hudson travels from Ohio to Venice. Jane is a middle-age single and lonely woman that have saved money for her dream trip. Read More »
Count Your Blessings (1959) Jean Negulesco
Grace hastily marries a French aristocrat during WWII, but is separated by circumstance from him for almost nine years. Read More »
Loser Takes All (1956) Ken Annakin, Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, Robert Morley
Bertrand is an accountant employed by a large London firm. Read More »
Siege of Syracuse (1960) Pietro Francisci, Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact Read More »
Gli inesorabili / The Fighting Men (1950) Camillo Mastrocinque, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Vanel, Claudine Dupuis, Drama
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti’s estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer Read More »
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks (1974) Dick Randall, Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Edmund Purdom, Horror
See the battle of the monsters, Goliath versus Ook! “South Pacific” star Rossano Brazzi plays the crackpot Frankenstein whose latest creature is a goofy, dome-headed neanderthal cleverly named Goliath. Typical of monsters, Goliath has the hots for Frankenstein’s new squeeze, Krista, who likes to bathe in milk. When Genz, a horny necrophile dwarf, is expelled from the castle, he promptly makes friends with Ook, a second neanderthal just passing through town. Out for revenge, Genz lets Goliath loose to go head to pointy-head with Ook in a good old-fashioned monster rumble.
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Il boia di Lilla / Milady and the Musketeers (1952) Vittorio Cottafavi, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Lebon, Armando Francioli, Action, Adventure, Drama
La storia narra della vita Anne de Beuil, meglio conosciuta come Milady De Winter, famosa per essere la nemica dei 3 moschettieri, donna crudele dal passato oscuro legato a quello del conte de La Fère , prima come moglie e poi come avversari. La donna riuscirà a sopravvivere al tentato omicidio del marito ma la rincontrerà con il nome di Athos. Alla fine verrà condotta al patibolo, e il boia che deve ucciderla si scopre essere…
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