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Tag Archives: Valentina Cortese
Love and Troubles AKA Amore e guai (1958) Angelo Dorigo, Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart. Read More »
The Glass Mountain (1949) Henry Cass, Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Valentina Cortese
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. Read More »
Secret People (1952) Thorold Dickinson, Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Charles Goldner
In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London Read More »
Calabuch (1956) Luis García Berlanga, Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Juan Calvo
Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American scientist specialist in the atomic bomb Read More »
Shadow of the Eagle (1950) Sidney Salkow, Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Greta Gynt
Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia’s many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova Read More »
Donne proibite (1954) Giuseppe Amato, Linda Darnell, Valentina Cortese, Lea Padovani
Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. Read More »
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) Robert Wise, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan
Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. 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 »
Malaya (1949) Richard Thorpe, Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. Read More »
Ring of Darkness (1979) Pier Carpi, Anne Heywood, Valentina Cortese, Frank Finlay, Horror
Young girls join a Satanic cult surrendering their bodies and will completely into the Devil himself. Read More »
Thieves’ Highway (1949) Jules Dassin, Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
The soldier Nick Garcos returns back home from the war very happy with gifts for his parents Yanko and Parthena Garcos and money in his pocket to open a business and get married with his girlfriend Polly Faber. Out of blue, Nick realizes that his father lost both legs and Yanko, who was a truck driver, tells that he was cheated by the dealer Mike Figlia in the San Francisco’s market when he delivered a truckload of tomatoes and was not paid. He believes that his accident was provoked by Figlia’s gangsters. He also tells that he sold the truck to a driver named Ed Kinney that has not paid him. Nick meets Ed and tells that he will bring the truck back, but Ed proposes a deal with apples, where they may earn a great amount. Nick invests his savings in another truck and buys apples from a Polish farmer. They need to drive directly to the market in San Francisco without sleeping to keep the fruits fresh, but Ed’s truck has problem on its axle and Nick arrives first.
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