Walter Chiari
Total Credits at Criticker: 40 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413. (imdb)
An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc. (imdb)
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousins magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his cousin sent for the fare was borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction firm. So Nino tries to get a job & finishes up ... laying bricks. (imdb)
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent, instead of paying teachers, hairdressers or bribes for her illusions. (imdb)
When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence. (imdb)
Features a series of brief comic sketches based on maniacs, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society. (imdb)
In a case of mistaken identity, the secretary for a well-to-do household is taken to be an heiress to the fortune by a handsome young lawyer. (Yahoo!)
Three persons, Susan and Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. Henry is Susan's lover. Since the island is filled with things to eat, they can concentrate on the love triangle between the men and the woman. (imdb)
Dino spends a day with his son Robertino whom he hadn't seen in five years, since his divorce. In order to win the child's affection, Dino hides the truth of his unaccomplished life behind a web of lies.
Totò Al Giro D'Italia is a black & white film in the Italian Neorealism genre about the 1948 edition of the Giro d'Italia, in which Professor Totò sells his soul to the devil in order to win the love of the bella Doriana. She agrees to marry him only if he can win the national bicycle race, calculating that this is an impossibility, but one stage after another he defeats all great cycling champions of that time (Coppi, Bartali, Schotte, Kubler, Bobet, Magni, et al).
Three episodes: L'OMAGGIO (The Homage); SABATO POMERIGGIO (Saturday Afternoon); Il CONDOMINIO (The Condominium). Erotic comedy. (ftvdb.bfi)
Magistrate (Judge) Del Russo presides over four cases brough before him during a period of one day. "Adultery in 16mm" focus on Elena who brings her salesman husband to court on charges of abandonment where he springs surprise evidence involving her affair with her lawyer. In "The Priest and the Prostitute," Don Michele, a young priest, is charged with wrecking a pool room who claims he was robbed by Anna, a prostitute, and beaten by her pimp. (imdb)
1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for ... casting spells. 4) The discomfort of an over tight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the reluctant parents of the bridegroom to bless his union. (imdb)
A great cast of comic actors for five amusing episodes: a fast driving nun has an accident with a car full of communists. A prostitute sinks in a pond with her "officer-van" along with her dreams. A Broke and desperate man tries to get hit by a car to collect the insurance money. A fake policeman makes money by giving fines... (movie-time)
The Grand Hotel Cortez is an old castle and the tale says that it is haunted. "Ghost" is the nickname of the famous jewels thief whom Jean-Marie Semolin wants to catch. Jean-Marie comes from France and he is sure that Ghost is among the hotel guests. A real ghost is haunting the place, a she-ghost, Maria Celeste Cortez. But the ghost has lost her shroud and she must find it. We can foresee some confusion. (imdb)
Four former soldiers meet and reminesce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe. (imdb)
A group of school friends meet again after several years, and reminisce. (bfi)
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow? (imdb)
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead. (imdb)
Two American sailers in Rome get beaten up near the Colosseum. Unconscious, they dream that they are in Ancient Rome, in the time of Nero, first as slaves, then gladiators and finally as the Emperor's favourites. When they come round, they find the Military Police waiting for them. (bfi)
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish. (imdb)
The plot of the film continues in parallel, three stories all under the hot climate of the Rio's carnival. The film uses extensive landscape shots that Rio de Janeiro is rich, and some sequences made taking pictures of the carnival in 1962. There is some interior view of the famous Copacabana Palace hotel, where two-thirds of the film's characters stay during the carnival period. (wikipedia)
Comedy Western about two pedlars on the run who are mistaken for brave sheriffs and by dint of this clear a city of bandits led by the Mayor. (bfi)
Martine Carol stars as Nana, a Parisian prostitute who rises from poverty to become the lover of a high-placed government bureaucrat, Comte Muffat (Charles Boyer). But as their affection for each other grows, they discover that society will exact a terrible price for their love. (Netflix)
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives. (imdb)
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general. (imdb)
A young man is undecided about getting married. His friend, an experienced bachelor, constantly tries to dissuade him, warning him about the dangers of getting too attached to a woman.
Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose. One day a young graduate, Walter, turns up in search of work, and though he is almost identical to the rival in his dreams, Fernando reluctantly hires him.
Three prisoners are discharged from jail: Stefano Luprandi, a surgeon accused of murdering a patient by doing an unauthorized surgery, Giuseppe Rasi, unjustly processed for robbery, and Franco Cesari, a thief.
Two friends work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home. (imdb)
A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences. (imdb)
Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other. (imdb)