Antonio Casale
Also Known As: Anthony Vernon
Biography: Antonio Casale (17 May 1932 – 4 February 2017) was an Italian film actor of the 1960s and 1970s who appeared in mostly Spaghetti Western Italian films between 1965 and 1976.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 17, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 04, 2017
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The Seventh Grave
Overview: Ghosts and dead bodies infest a small nineteenth-century village.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-18
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Syndicate Sadists
Overview: A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-16
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The Grand Duel
Overview: A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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Silent Action
Overview: A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-05
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The Suspect
Overview: Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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7 Hours of Violence
Overview: A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pursuers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?
Overview: A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-19
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Overview: While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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Lips of Lurid Blue
Overview: Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allows them to blend in within the confines of their regular social life in a sanctimonious provincial town. But then a strange woman bursts into their world and Marco's deviant behavior come to light again but now he has a thirst for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Quickly, Shootings and Kisses for Breakfast
Overview: A diamond heist with colorful characters and crisp cinematography, the humor is best described as unsophisticated Terence Hill and Bud Spencer larks complemented by crude animation, a bright and jazzy score by Cavallone regular composer Franco Potenza and a bevy of stunning women: Maria Pia Luzi, Beryl Cunningham, Magda Konopka and Claudie Lange.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-27
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From Our Copenhagen's Correspondent
Overview: Two American soldiers fresh from the Vietnam War are haunted by the atrocities that they witnessed and committed while on a vacation in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-27
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The Arena
Overview: Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Diary of a Roman Virgin
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Le salamandre
Overview: Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer who seduces a black model. A doctor then arrives on the scene, and Schurer falls for his charms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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A Man Called Blade
Overview: Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-13
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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The Violent Professionals
Overview: With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-22
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Overview: Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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The Sewer Rats
Overview: A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.
Genres: Crime Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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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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Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-13
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Duck, You Sucker
Overview: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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What Have You Done to Solange?
Overview: After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-23
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Autopsy
Overview: A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-18
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Overview: A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-27
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Overview: Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-13
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