Franco Pesce
Also Known As: Frank Campbell, Frank Fisher, Francesco Pesce
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Birthday: August 11, 1890
Deathday: December 06, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Nobody Has Betrayed
Overview: A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-05-21
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Forgotten Pistolero
Overview: Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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Paranoia
Overview: Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Overview: After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Overview: Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-24
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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay
Overview: After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-08
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Don't Wait, Django… Shoot!
Overview: Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Sheriff With the Gold
Overview: A gunman teams up with a small time sheriff to rob a shipment of gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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Shango
Overview: Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of thugs who have been terrorizing a local border town in search of gold.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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They Call Me Hallelujah
Overview: A Yankee gunman, Hallelujah, is hired by Mexican Juarista, General Ramirez to confiscate a case of jewels to fund the revolution. For this, Hallelujah will receive a percentage. But other parties are interested in the case and when they turn out to be fakes, it all deteriorates into a cat and mouse style game with Hallelujah, gunrunners, the French, and a Russian outlaw(!) all searching for the real jewels. - SWDB
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-08
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Ultima illusione
Overview: Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Last Race
Overview: Two young men are training for a rowing race on the Tiber. One of them, "Marco" is distracted by a new found love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-05-23
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A Full Day's Work
Overview: A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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God's Gun
Overview: Priest turned vigilante Father John hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton, who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the holy man.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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Ho pianto per te!
Overview: Emma and Lucia grow up together in an orphanage and remain friends throughout adulthood. When Emma has to work away from home, she entrusts her daughter to Lucia. When she receives word that her daughter has died, she is desolate - but whose child did, actually, pass away?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-02
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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Overview: In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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La grande avventura
Overview: The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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A Virgin Named Mary
Overview: A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Rapture
Overview: Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a young woman dive in the water from a rock and becomes determined to sculpt her from memory. He rents a house near the spot and falls in love with the mentally disturbed daughter, Francesca, of the castle's owner, W. C. Hutton, while becoming involved with her sister, Marisa unaware of her identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-13
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We Are No Angels
Overview: Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-25
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Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Overview: Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-09
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A Gun for One Hundred Graves
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the fourth, a certain Corbett. Finally he discovers Corbett as the leader of a gang that has plans to rob a local bank and is invited to help defend the town from the bandits. Teaming with a preacher, who has an agenda of his own, the two take a stand against Corbett.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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I barbieri di Sicilia
Overview: In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage the bacteriological weapons the Nazis are preparing to use against the allied armies invasion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Eran trecento
Overview: Set in 1857, it's the story of a band of revolutionaries fighting against the Borbones.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-17
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The Law
Overview: A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-25
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La portatrice di pane
Overview: France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Overview: Former racing champion John Lee Scott coaches young driver Dustin Rich. The learn of a new Italian model that can reach 300 kilometers an hour developed by an 80 year old racing expert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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O.K. Nero
Overview: Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Overview: A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-04
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Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Overview: Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-13
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Scandali al mare
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-11
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Overview: Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-07
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Jus primae noctis
Overview: Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-07
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In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Overview: A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After number of refusals Zilio is desperate, but Nale, a young lover, combines a frontal marriage between the two, convinced they can take advantage of it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Overview: In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Società a responsabilità molto limitata
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-10
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Lui, lei e il nonno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Where the Bullets Fly
Overview: Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Apparizione
Overview: One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-12-23
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The Hussars
Overview: Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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A... For Assassin
Overview: After a rich mine worker dies in mine accident, his heirs gather in his house to hear the reading of the will.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-08
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Night of Violence
Overview: Carla Pratesi, a prostitute, is killed. Her death is followed by a number of attempted murders. Carla's sister undertakes her own investigation. Police enquiries uncover a drugs trade connected to a call-girls organization but the murderer remains at large. Finally, a witness identifies the killer as a well-known actor. However, he has a strong alibi (he was shooting a film). The following night, a girl who manages to escape from the maniac's clutches swears he is a different famous actor but he turns out to have a strong alibi too! Eventually the police set a trap in the park and, with the help of Carla, kill the madman. It emerges he had been disfigured by the atomic blast at Hiroshima and went crazy because his disformed features revolted women and but them off having sex with him. He created masks reproducing the features of handsome actors just to approach prostitutes!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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L'elisir d'amore
Overview: Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-01-31
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Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Overview: In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Eternal Melody
Overview: The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-03
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Overview: Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
Genres: Western Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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The Walls of Malapaga
Overview: A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-19
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Cifrato speciale
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Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Revolt of the Mercenaries
Overview: Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-27
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God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth
Overview: A bounty hunter named Arizona helps a group of beleaguered farmers in their fight against a large landowner named Austin Styles and his gang of outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-26
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The Angel
Overview: A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-20
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Il barone Carlo Mazza
Overview: Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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La bisarca
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Overview: Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Voice of Silence
Overview: Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Why Go On Killing?
Overview: A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Spring song
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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His Name Was Holy Ghost
Overview: The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-30
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