Tony Kendall
Also Known As: Luciano Stella, Tony Kendal
Biography: Tony Kendall (22 August 1936 – 28 November 2009) was an Italian model turned film actor with over 50 film credits that reflect the trends of popular European cinema in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Born as Luciano Stella, Kendall was formerly a model for Italian Fumetti, comics done in photographs. He changed his name to Tony Kendall at the suggestion of Vittorio De Sica in the fashion of many Italian actors whose films were shown in countries outside of Italy in the days when European films proliferated. Stella made his film debut in Femmine Tre Volte in 1959 but didn't make another appearance until he used his new name of Tony Kendall in Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963) one of the sword and sandal craze of films popular in the early 1960s. Kendall is most famous for his various teamings with Brad Harris, with the two predating Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as a popular and prolific action team. In the derivative world of the European cinema of the 1960s, Kendall and Harris first teamed up in two sauerkraut western films "inspired" by the successful German Karl May Winnetou series with Harris as a Lex Barker clone and Kendall as a Native American "Chief Black Eagle" in The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963) and Black Eagle of Santa Fe (1965). With the international success of the James Bond films and the German Jerry Cotton series, Kendall became best known for his role as private detective Joe Walker in the seven films of the Eurospy Kommissar X series where he played opposite Brad Harris in the role of New York Police Captain Tom Rowland. The popularity of Batman (TV series) led to Harris and Kendall appearing in The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967) the first in a long series that had stunt work performed by a young Jackie Chan (“The Three Fantastic Supermen in the Orient”). Kendall has prominently appeared in other varieties of European cinema in the 1960s and 1970s such as Giallo horror (The Whip and the Body, 1963), spaghetti westerns (as Django in Django Against Sartana, 1970, and Gunman of 100 Crosses, 1971), crime movies such as Machine Gun McCain (1969), and adventure films such as Oil! (1977). He also appeared in European versions of women in prison (The Big Bust Out, 1972), zombie horror (Return of the Blind Dead, 1973), and films inspired by The Godfather (Corleone, 1978). Aside from an appearance in Alex l'ariete (2000), Kendall's last film role was in On the Dark Continent in 1993. Source: Article "Tony Kendall (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: August 22, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 28, 2009
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Kill, Panther, Kill!
Overview: Two rivals are out to recover a cache of stolen jewels. The thief who originally stole them has just gotten out of prison, however, and he is looking for his twin brother, who knows where the jewels are hidden. Complications ensue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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So Darling, So Deadly
Overview: A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! A dangerous crime organization wants the device and will stop at nothing to get it, while murder and violence follow Joe and Tom to Singapore as they try to foil the evil plans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-05
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Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Overview: Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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Kill Me Gently
Overview: One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-03-23
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Island of Lost Girls
Overview: Female American tourists are being kidnapped by a crime ring headed by a beautiful Asian woman. They're drugged and then sent to an island where they are kept as sex slaves to be used by wealthy tourists. Two agents are dispatched to rescue the women and put an end to this operation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-18
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The Tiger Gang
Overview: Captain Tom Rowland and Commissioner X are sent to Pakistan to destroy the Red Tigers gang, responsible for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan into the United States.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-08-20
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Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
Overview: Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-17
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The Masked Man Against the Pirates
Overview: Pirates capture a Spanish ship. After having landed on an island, they try to sell the surviving crew, especially the women. One of them is protected by a pirate who gained her as a prize for having saved the captain's life in the battle that ensued. Suddenly a man masked in green arrives and performs - ever haunting - in favour of the Spanish.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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Attack of the Blind Dead
Overview: 500 years after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during it's centennial celebration. Being blind, the Templars find their victims through sound, usually the screams of their victims. Taking refuge in a deserted cathedral, a small group of people must find a way to escape from the creatures.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-05-17
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The Whip and the Body
Overview: Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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The Loreley's Grasp
Overview: The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sigurd is engaged to kill the monster.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-06-15
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Machine Gun McCain
Overview: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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The Three Fantastic Supermen
Overview: FBI agent Brad joins Tony and Nick, the self styled Supermen who battle crime wearing bullet-proof super-suits. They are on a case involving radioactive counterfeit money and people who can be broken down into precious jewels.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Il giorno della Shoah
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-01-27
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Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
Overview: Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on Newfoundland's coast. The professor does not know that Hunnicut intends to use the prehistoric creature as a trademark of its multinational industrial group. A very big mistake.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Mystery Crime Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Closed Circuit
Overview: At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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Hyena of London
Overview: A serial killer called "Hyena" is finally captured and eventually hanged. But his body disappears before it can be buried, and soon thereafter dead bodies begin to turn up in a small village.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-23
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In the Eye of the Hurricane
Overview: Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment, but Paul dismisses such a possibility - but he does suggest it to Michel. Then, the heat does go up.
Genres: Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-23
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Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
Overview: A grim, merciless gunfighter known as Santana protects a young woman from the murderers of her family members and at the same time pursues a revenge against a traitor responsible for the death of his fellow soldiers years before.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-03
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Brother Outlaw
Overview: A man is falsely charged with bank robbery, prompting his brother to break him out of prison. Together the pair set out to find the real culprits, and their search leads them to a gang of outlaws headed by a notorious gunfighter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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White Fang and the Kid
Overview: The town drunk of Gallatin, Missouri is former outlaw Franky James, brother of Jesse James. He is reformed by a woman, a young boy and a dog. He helps rid the town of corrupt town boss Mr. Morgan.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Hate Is My God
Overview: A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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Django Challenges Sartana
Overview: Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a duel. Just in time he discovers that the author of the crime is an important local figure and Django and Sartana join forces to punish him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-03
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Fighters from Ave Maria
Overview: Three acrobats help to rid a small Californian border town of a local tyrant in the times of the Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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Death Stone
Overview: Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent on revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-07-02
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Corleone
Overview: Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
Overview: Documentary about the Kommissar X Series.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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La ragazza fuoristrada
Overview: An Italian photojournalist falls madly in love with a young black women he meets while on assignment in Egypt. She goes with him when he returns to Italy and the two soon get married. But the small town he is from is not quite so friendly nor open-minded to his new bride, and racism and petty jealousy threaten to break up their once idyllic happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Love Birds
Overview: Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-07
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Serenade for Two Spies
Overview: An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has defected to the enemy. Since agent 007 is currently on another mission, the chief of intelligence has to fall back on his second best man, the previous number 006. And so the German secret agent John Krim is given the assignment to get the rifle back, find evidence of Cormoran’s treachery and finally eliminate the colleague. Krim’s journey takes him across the ocean, and there he experiences incredible adventures in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Two women get in his way, and Krim can’t be sure whether he can trust them or whether they too are working for the other side.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-08-18
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La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Overview: Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the apartment's defects. Attempting to embark on a passionate affair, she learns that the man suffers from libido problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Attila Scourge of God
Overview: The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome
Overview: This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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La Missione del Mandrillo
Overview: Pietro Rossini is a strapping young man that unfortunately spends most of his time at work chasing after two pretty young secretaries who are only too happy to return his advances. Tired of this endless chase and work waste, his boss sends him on an errand to Paris hoping this will help productivity around the office. Pietro quickly hits up his friend for a woman he can fool around with while he's in Paris, but Rita, the woman he meets, ends up being an large, boorish, unsightly woman. Once he arrives at his hotel, Pietro meets the young and lovely Nancy and attempts to romance her as best he can, but no matter where he goes, Rita is not far behind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-22
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Blood Story
Overview: A prohibition-themed gangster thriller, set in the 1930s in the United States. Following a failed heist, Sam's gang takes refuge in a small isolated town where another gang has already settled, together with a mysterious priest. The two bands decide to unite, but the wife of one of the gang bosses is attracted to a member of the other gang. They plan to escape and start a new life together. But who will survive the police assault on the town?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-09
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Snow White
Overview: Adventure and comedy film by Piero Regnoli.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
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Tales of Erotica
Overview: Four women of Gubbio – Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina – are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted
Overview: Sex comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-05-28
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Black Eagle of Santa Fe
Overview: When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the undermanned fort to lend advice and support. He learns that the Comanches have been stirred up by local rancher Morton who wants to take control of the oil under the Indians' reservation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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The Pirates of the Mississippi
Overview: European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-17
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The Criminals of the Metropolis
Overview: A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Siege of Terror
Overview: Finding himself unwittingly involved in a love triangle with his unfaithful wife and her lover sends a man over the edge.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-03
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The Big Bust-Out
Overview: Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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Voce del verbo amore
Overview: Ugo and Francesca have been married for ten years, but mutually decide to break up in a graceful way. They start singles' life again, having to deal with their children, their jobs and social relationships alone. They even both start seeing someone else, until jealousy arises. Perhaps their love is not over yet...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Le Guignolo
Overview: After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-26
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The Invisible Wall
Overview: June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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Oil
Overview: When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Female Three Times
Overview: The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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Thrilling Love
Overview: A man, sexually maimed by his former wife, lives vicariously through her affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-23
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Cop or Hood
Overview: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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On the Dark Continent
Overview: In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Alex the Ram
Overview: Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he will be unexpectedly forced to help an hot witness named Antavleva, protecting her and bringing them safely to the trial.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-07-21
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The Night of the Last Day
Overview: A film director wants to make a politically charged movie, but is hampered by his producer. At the same time, a friend of his commits suicide, and he goes insane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
Overview: Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task.
Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Crime on the Highway
Overview: Undercover cop Nico Giraldi is once again transformed, now as a trucker in a criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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