Antonio La Raina
Also Known As: Antonio La Rana
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 21, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 10, 2000
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Wrong Beds
Overview: Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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Emergency Squad
Overview: A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Gli eroi del doppio gioco
Overview: Benito, son of a fascist mayor, returned from the countryside of Russia, rebels against the family and joins a group of partisans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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Tarantella napoletana
Overview: Combining musical and dance numbers with comedy sketches (performed by members of The Armando Curcio Company and The Gauthier Ballet Troupe)without any plot, this is more of a revue than a movie, along the lines of The Ed Sullivan television series in the U.S.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-23
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The Sons of the Leopard
Overview: Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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Wife for Sale
Overview: The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adventures with other women. Gianni is part of the powerful from birth and is used to having everything he wants and wants Clara. But Clara does not want him. Then there is an opportunity: Furio wins an important foreign contract, but needs to have immediately 500 million while the bank can not give it to him before five days. Gianni will lend him money, without interest for five days but for every day of blackberry Furio will have to give him Clara. Furio and Clara accept the contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
Overview: A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-22
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Delitto a Posillipo
Overview: A man accepts a job in a night club to make ends meet. When the owner of the club is found murdered his jealous wife is accused of the murder. He believes her innocent however and fights to clear her name. The film is based on a real life case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam
Overview: Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-27
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Naples Sings
Overview: Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-28
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A Monster and a Half
Overview: A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Mafia Things
Overview: A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-08
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Guess Who's Coming for a Snack?
Overview: Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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Playing the Field
Overview: A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-23
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The Assassination of Matteotti
Overview: How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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The Monsters
Overview: The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
Overview: Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?
Overview: Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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Side Street Story
Overview: A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-21
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I'm Not Worthy of You
Overview: In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Scandal in Sorrento
Overview: Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Of Life and Love
Overview: A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-03
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Christmas at the Cupiello Household
Overview: Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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