John Stacy
Also Known As: John Stasy, John Hastings Stacy, John Stacey
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: January 03, 1914
Deathday: August 20, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Gidget Goes to Rome
Overview: Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Modesty Blaise
Overview: Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Overview: Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-06
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Crazy Things
Overview: When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-20
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Pope John Paul II
Overview: Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-22
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Una parigina a Roma
Overview: Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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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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Come September
Overview: Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Too Bad She's Bad
Overview: When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Desert Commandos
Overview: German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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The Headless Ghost
Overview: Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-18
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Wild Beasts
Overview: PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security the gonzo critters rampage through the city eating and killing whatever they fancy, wreaking a night of bloody terror. It's up to regular Italian-trash whipping girl Lorraine De Selle and obnoxious Super Mario lookalike zookeeper John Aldrich to sort it out.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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Zeder
Overview: A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-08-25
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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Overview: Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-23
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Careless
Overview: Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-08
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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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The Cat Gang
Overview: The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene.
Genres: Crime Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-04
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Battle of the Worlds
Overview: Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. The station's scientists learn they must deal with a rogue planet -- "The Outsider" -- that has entered the solar system. which must be controlled by an alien intelligence… Professor Benson's(Claude Rains) expedition discovers a race of humanoid creatures dead...
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-30
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Concorde Affair
Overview: A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Submission
Overview: In wartime France, Pharmacist Eliane begins a torrid affair with her shop assistant Armand, but she soon becomes dominated by him. He demands more and more from her, humiliating her and putting her family at risk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-26
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Overview: During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-16
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The Night of the Assassin
Overview: During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British peacekeeping officer is trying to prevent a Greek guerrilla fighter from escalating the violent situation even further.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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Ace
Overview: Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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The Big Game
Overview: Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an inventor to protect him and his invention, a radar-like machine that is capable of controlling armies and forcing them to fight.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-02
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My Wife is a Witch
Overview: A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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Grand Hotel Excelsior
Overview: Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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Casanova & Co.
Overview: While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-01
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Battle of the Commandos
Overview: A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-12
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Killer 77, Alive or Dead
Overview: At the request of the CIA, British secret agent Lester follows the ominous scientist George King, who, after successfully sabotaging an American rocket launch, has announced to the world's powerful that he can disable any nuclear weapon...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-20
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Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno
Overview: A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-06-04
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The Salamander
Overview: An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-25
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Overview: Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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Detective Belli
Overview: A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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Elective Affinities
Overview: Adaptation of Goethe's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-03
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Overview: Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-07
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Pontius Pilate
Overview: The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-15
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Barabbas
Overview: Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-23
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Overview: A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
Overview: Hector, the dog of an officer of the merchant navy, wanders during a stopover in Lisbon. Captured by smugglers, he is soon used as a mule in a case of diamond smuggling. But this is not counting on his innate sense of justice and law...
Genres: Family Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-05
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