Ivano Staccioli
Also Known As: John Heston
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 15, 1995
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I Protect Myself Against My Enemies
Overview: A major of the dissolved southern army gives a dollar to a young cowboy, Alan Burton, telling him that there are two other similar dollars with different figures on them; the three numbers combined show the spot where the Confederate's treasure is hidden. A number of people get involved including a gang leader and Alan's sidekick, Hondo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-16
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Cemetery Without Crosses
Overview: A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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Any Gun Can Play
Overview: A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-26
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Studio legale per una rapina
Overview: Maurice Poitier, a disbarred lawyer, is dumped in prison. In prison, he learns of a plan of robbery worth millions from a dying inmate: once released, will begin to put together a group of bandits to pull this off. But not everything goes as hoped.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Private House of the SS
Overview: Top Nazi officials, intent on rooting out traitors and those in the military who may be plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, recruit and train a group of beautiful prostitutes whose mission is to use any means necessary to uncover plots against the Fuhrer.
Genres: Drama War History Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-20
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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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Death Walks at Midnight
Overview: Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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Gold Train
Overview: Bandit leader El Diablo who controls the country with his gang plans to achieve gold destined for Mexico but he is not the only one.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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The Nephews of Zorro
Overview: Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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Three Bullets for Ringo
Overview: Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, who has joined The South and is now in the pay of a crooked Mayor....
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Desert Assault
Overview: Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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Clap, You're Dead
Overview: A crew that is filming a horror movie is stalked by a mysterious killer who slays three of the beautiful young actresses. There is a main suspect (a crew member that got fired shortly before the first murder occurs, after he had an argument with the first victim), a police inspector that doesn't search for possible other suspects and a dose of sleazy sex
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave
Overview: Wells Fargo hires bounty hunters to protect its gold transports from the notorious outlaw Glenn Kovacs. Jeff Sullivan, one of the hired gunmen, buys the freedom of Dan Barker, a prisoner who may lead him to Kovacs. When Barker escapes from Sullivan, the other bounty hunters pursue him also, leading to the ultimate showdown between all parties.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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God Made Them... I Kill Them
Overview: A bounty-hunter is hired by the residents of a small town on the Mexican border to stop a series of gold robberies by marauding outlaws who are coordinated by the town's corrupt banker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-29
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Maniacs on Wheels
Overview: Racing drama set in the world of Formula 1 racing.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-24
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They Call Him Cemetery
Overview: John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-23
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Se non avessi l'amore
Overview: The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-24
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Cleopatra's Daughter
Overview: The beautiful young Sushila is forced into a political marriage with young Pharaoh Nemorat in order to consolidate power. However, the young Pharaoh is beset with mental illness and the marriage becomes dangerous, all the while the chief advisor Kefren and his scheming mistress plot to destroy the unstable pair.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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Flashman
Overview: Superhero Flashman--who is secretly a member of the British royal family--battles a host of villains and gangsters, including Mafia bank robbers and a gang of beautiful female counterfeiters.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-08
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Samoa, Queen of the Jungle
Overview: Adventurer Clint travels across Borneo with a bunch of rogues and geologists on the search for a diamond mine. In the middle of the jungle, they meet a beautiful woman called Samoa. Hardly a surprise that Clint falls in love with Samoa, but trouble with the natives begins when the diamonds are found because diamonds are holy stones to them.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-08
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The Centurion
Overview: A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-20
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A Sword to Brando
Overview: In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all of whose faces are masked by sinister skulls. Brando, the young hero of this film, saves two damsels from the ravages of the sect.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-14
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The Nights of Lucretia Borgia
Overview: Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, the Duke of Alva's daughter, whom he has saved from being raped. When he learns about Diana's feud against the Borgia clan, he becomes aware of their infamous deeds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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Commandos
Overview: Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-19
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Franco e Ciccio superstars
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Quel giorno Dio non c'era (Il caso Defregger)
Overview: Based on a real WW2 episode. In 1944 in a small village in the Italian Appenines several inhabitants are executed in reprisal for a partisan attack on the German occupying troops. The lieutenant responsible for the execution becomes a priest and then a bishop and several years later he is put on trial for the killings.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Sword of the Rebellion
Overview: A kind of Italian Robin Hood leads a fight against a tyrant and his henchmen.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-16
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Lipstick
Overview: A prostitute is robbed and murdered. A fourteen-year-old girl sees a suave gigolo come out of the hotel where the murder occurred. She has a schoolgirl crush on the handsome man though, so instead of reporting the crime she befriends him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-26
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Blood Feud
Overview: An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-11
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The Old Testament
Overview: The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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The Accountant
Overview: London middle class Jewish accountant Lionel is preparing for his son's bar mitzvah when he does a little favour for a friend, and ends up getting mixed up with the Mafia.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-24
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008: Operation Exterminate
Overview: The British Secret Service sends agent 006 to Cairo, to collaborate with an American colleague in searching for a stolen anti-radar device, but soon finds the task a bit more than he bargained for.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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A Girl Called Jules
Overview: After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film, Valerii turns up along the way too. Just when the film hits a period of auto pilot John Steiner turns up in the final reel for a climax that is quite unforgettable. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-25
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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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Kriminal
Overview: A master criminal is pursued by inspector Milton
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Afrika
Overview: A violent examination of male homosexuality in a time when it was considered taboo, where Ivano Staccioli and his lover engage in a self-destructive relationship against the background of Africa.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-15
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Women's Camp 119
Overview: A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to "cure" homosexual men by having nude women dance for them. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.
Genres: Thriller Horror War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Black Deep Throat
Overview: A newspaper reporter is in search of information about an exclusive sex cult.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-17
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Road to Salina
Overview: Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Mexico. He stops at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago. Feeling sorry for Mara, he decides to stay on and meets Mara's friend Warren and Rocky's sister Billie, but dark facts are to be revealed about the disappearance of Rocky.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-09
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African Story
Overview: African set action thriller
Genres: Adventure Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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Ursus and the Tartar Princess
Overview: Peplum movie from 1961
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-30
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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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Two Sons of Ringo
Overview: Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Overview: Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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So Sweet, So Dead
Overview: A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-18
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Pia de' Tolomei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-29
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Sword Without a Country
Overview: In Renaissance Italy, the young and beautiful Gigliola resists her adopted father's effort to marry her off to a wealthy older suitor. Instead, Gigliola loves Cino, a humble troubador. When Cino kills the suitor in a moment of impulsive anger, he's condemned to death, but Cino's friends rescue him. Gigliola persuades Cino to take her with him. Together they join the rebels seeking to free the land from tyranny.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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The Loves of Salammbo
Overview: During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-24
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War of the Zombies
Overview: A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
Genres: Fantasy Horror Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-13
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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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The Flower with Petals of Steel
Overview: A doctor kills his girlfriend when he accidentally causes her to fall onto an ornamental flower which has metal spikes. He disposes of her by chopping up and then dissolving her corpse. The woman's sister accuses the doctor and an investigation begins. In the meantime, a second woman is killed and the doctor begins to receive metal petals through the post.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-13
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Creeping Death
Overview: A man comes to a western town willing to discover the perpetrators of the robbery of a bank, where a significant amount of gold disappeared and witnesses were cruelly murdered. One of the thieves is now getting rid of the accomplices, using some deadly snakes that only seem to obey him.
Genres: Western Mystery Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-09
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The Devil with Seven Faces
Overview: Carroll Baker plays a dual role as translator Julie Harrison and her twin sister Mary. The serpentine plot begins as Julie tells her lawyer Dave Barton that Mary's life is being threatened in London while Julie herself is being stalked by a mysterious stranger in Amsterdam.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-09
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The Big Hit of Surcouf
Overview: The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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The Sea Pirate
Overview: A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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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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Knight Without a Country
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-14
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