Carlo Ponti (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
film producerA film producer or movie producer is someone who creates the scenes and conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors...
with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star
Sophia LorenSophia Loren is an Italian film actress and an international sex symbol. In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actor to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance....
.
Ponti was born in
Magenta, ItalyMagenta is a town and comune in the province of Milan in Lombardy, northern Italy.It is notable as the site of the Battle of Magenta. The colour magenta is named after the battle, most likely referring to the uniforms used by Zouave French troops. Magenta is the birthplace of St...
and studied law at the
University of MilanThe University of Milan is one of the largest universities in Italy, with about 62,801 students, a teaching and research staff of 2,455 and a non-teaching staff of 2,200....
. He joined his father's law firm in Milan and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts . Ponti attempted to establish a film industry in Milan in
1940The year 1940 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.* February 20 - Tom and Jerry make their debut in the animated cartoon Puss Gets the Boot....
and produced
Mario SoldatiMario Soldati was an Italian writer, film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
's
Piccolo Mondo Antico there, starring
Alida ValliAlida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man and Luchino Visconti's Senso.-Early life:...
, in her first notable role.
Carlo Ponti (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
film producerA film producer or movie producer is someone who creates the scenes and conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors...
with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star
Sophia LorenSophia Loren is an Italian film actress and an international sex symbol. In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actor to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance....
.
Career
Ponti was born in
Magenta, ItalyMagenta is a town and comune in the province of Milan in Lombardy, northern Italy.It is notable as the site of the Battle of Magenta. The colour magenta is named after the battle, most likely referring to the uniforms used by Zouave French troops. Magenta is the birthplace of St...
and studied law at the
University of MilanThe University of Milan is one of the largest universities in Italy, with about 62,801 students, a teaching and research staff of 2,455 and a non-teaching staff of 2,200....
. He joined his father's law firm in Milan and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts . Ponti attempted to establish a film industry in Milan in
1940The year 1940 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released.* February 20 - Tom and Jerry make their debut in the animated cartoon Puss Gets the Boot....
and produced
Mario SoldatiMario Soldati was an Italian writer, film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
's
Piccolo Mondo Antico there, starring
Alida ValliAlida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man and Luchino Visconti's Senso.-Early life:...
, in her first notable role. The film dealt with the
Italian struggle against the AustriansThe Second War of Italian Independence, Franco-Austrian War, Austro-Sardinian War, or Austro-Piedmontese War, was fought by Napoleon III of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859...
for the inclusion of northeastern Italy into the
Kingdom of ItalyKingdom of Sardinia, also known as Piedmont-Sardinia or Sardinia-Piedmont, was the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1720, when the crown of Sardinia was awarded by the Treaty of London to Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy to compensate him for the loss of the crown of Sicily to...
during the
RisorgimentoItalian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century...
. The film was successful, because it was easy to see "the Austrians as Germans" during
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.. As a result, he was briefly jailed for undermining relations with
Nazi GermanyNazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany between 1933 and 1945, while it was led by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker's Party . The name Third Reich refers to the state as the successor to the Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages and the German...
.
Ponti accepted an offer from Lux Film company in
RomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...
in 1941, where he produced a series of commercially successful films featuring the comedian
TotòAntonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis Di Bisanzio Gagliardi, called Totò , was an eminent and celebrated Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter...
. In
1954The year 1954 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda. The two were married in 1927.* A reproduction of "America's First Movie Studio", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed...
he had his greatest artistic success with the production of
Federico FelliniFederico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian film director. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century.- Rimini :Federico Fellini was born on January 20, 1920 to...
's
La stradaLa Strada is a Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini in which a naive young woman is sold to a brutish man and goes on the road as a part of his itinerant show....
. However, Fellini denied Ponti's role in its success and said that "La Strada was made in spite of Ponti and
De LaurentiisAgostino De Laurentiis, usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis , is an Italian Academy Award-winning movie producer.-Biography:...
". He produced
ViscontiLuchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice . He died in Rome of a stroke at the age of 69...
's
Boccaccio '70Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini...
in
1962The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time , running more than 40 years.-Top grossing films :...
,
Marriage Italian Style in
1964The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....
, and
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in
1965The year 1965 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Boeing Boeing*Brainstorm...
. He produced his most popular and financially successful film,
David LeanSir David Lean was an English filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai,Doctor Zhivago,...
's
Doctor ZhivagoDoctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic or drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.-Plot:...
in
1965The year 1965 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Boeing Boeing*Brainstorm...
. He subsequently produced three notable films with
Michelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian modernist film director.-Life:Michelangelo Antonioni was born into a well-to-do family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy. The director explained to Italian film critic Aldo Tassone:While still a child,...
,
BlowupBlowup is a 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, that director's first English language film. It tells the story of a photographer's accidental and incidental involvement with a murder. The film was inspired by the 1959 short story "Las babas del diablo" Blowup (Blow-Up)...
in
1966The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Walt Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died on December 15,1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...
,
Zabriskie PointZabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni that depicts some aspects of the U.S. counterculture movement in the late 1960s. It tells the story of a young couple — an idealistic, free spirited young woman, and an aspiring radical turned fugitive...
in
1970The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 11 - The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr premieres in New York City...
and
The PassengerThe Passenger is a film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1975, in which Jack Nicholson stars as a reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger...
in
1974The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA*May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope....
.
Personal life
In 1946 he married Giuliana Fiastri . Around 1950, Ponti, while serving as a judge in a beauty contest, met a minor actress named Sofia Lazzaro. He subsequently cast her in films such as
Anna (1951). In 1952 his friend, Goffredo Lombardo, head of production at Titanus, changed Lazzaro's name to
Sophia LorenSophia Loren is an Italian film actress and an international sex symbol. In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actor to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance....
. In 1957, Ponti obtained a
MexicanThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
divorce from his first wife and married Sophia Loren by
proxyA proxy marriage is when the bride and the groom are getting married separately, but are getting married to each other.-History:It was common for European monarchs and nobility to be wed by proxy marriage. A famous example of this is the marriage of Napoleon I of France to Marie Louise, Duchess of...
. Divorce was still forbidden in Italy and he was informed that he would be charged with bigamy if he returned to Italy and Loren would be charged with "
concubinageConcubinage is the state of a woman in an ongoing, usually matrimonially-oriented relationship with a man who cannot be married to her, often because of a difference in social status.-Concubinage:...
". Ponti co-produced several films in Hollywood starring Loren, establishing her fame, although most were box-office failures. In 1960 Ponti and Loren returned to Italy and when summoned to court, denied being married. Later, they had the marriage annulled in 1962, after which he arranged with his first wife, Giuliana, that the three of them move to France which at that time allowed divorce and become French citizens. In 1965 Giuliana Ponti divorced her husband, allowing Ponti to marry Loren in 1966 in a civil wedding in Sèvres.
Two unsuccessful attempts were made to kidnap Ponti in 1975, including one involving an attack on his car with gunfire .
Ponti was tried in absentia in 1979 for smuggling money and works of art abroad and fined 22 billion
lireThe lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. Between 1999 and 2002, the Italian lira was officially a “national subunit” of the euro...
and sentenced to four years in prison. He did not attend the hearing, as his French nationality made him immune from extradition. He was finally cleared of the charges in 1990.
Death
Ponti died in
GenevaGeneva, is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie...
,
SwitzerlandSwitzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
from pulmonary complications. He was survived by Loren, his sons Carlo (now a music conductor and music director of the
San BernardinoSan Bernardino is a large city located in the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area of Southern California. San Bernardino is also the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. San Bernardino's estimated population, as of 2006, is 205,010. As of 2006, it was the 18th largest city...
Symphony), film producer Alessandro; film director and former child actor Edoardo Ponti; and lawyer daughter Guendalina.
His body rests in Magenta .
Filmography
- Piccolo mondo antico
Piccolo mondo antico, also known as Old-Fashioned World , is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and based on the 1895 novel by Antonio Fogazzaro.-Plot summary:...
(1940)
- A Yank in Rome
A Yank in Rome is a 1946 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Valentina Cortese. -Cast:* Valentina Cortese - Maria, La maestrina* Andrea Checchi - Roberto* Leo Dale - Dick* Adolfo Celi - Tom* Paolo Stoppa - Sor Augusto...
(1946)
- Hey Boy
Hey Boy is a 1948 drama film directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Adolfo Celi. -Cast:* Carlo Barbieri* Adolfo Celi - Don Pietro* Antonio Cirelli* Carlo Della Posta* Luigi Demastro* Clemente De Michele* Luigi Dermasti* Il Duca di Civitelli...
(1948)
- Campane a martello
Campane a martello is a 1949 drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Gina Lollobrigida. -Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida - Agostina* Yvonne Sanson - Australia* Eduardo De Filippo - Don Andrea* Carlo Giustini - Marco* Carlo Romano - Gendarme...
(1949)
- The White Line
The White Line is a 1950 drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Gina Lollobrigida. -Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida - Donata Sebastian* Raf Vallone - Domenico* Erno Crisa - Stefano* Cesco Baseggio - Giovanni Sebastian...
(1950)
- A Dog's Life
A Dog's Life is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno.-Cast:* Aldo Fabrizi - Nino Martoni* Gina Lollobrigida - Margherita 'Rita Buton'* Delia Scala - Vera* Tamara Lees - Franca* Gianni Barrella - L'impresario...
(1950)
- Toto the Third Man
Toto the Third Man is a 1951 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.-Cast:* Totò - Piero / Paolo / Toto* Ughetto Bertucci - Lamberto* Liana Billi* Carlo Campanini* Mario Castellani - Alfredo* Gino Cavalieri...
(1951)
- Il padrone del vapore
Il padrone del vapore is a 1951 comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Riccardo Billi.-Cast:* Riccardo Billi* Carlo Campanini* Walter Chiari* Aldo Giuffrè* Carlo Giuffrè* Zoe Incrocci* Sophia Loren - Ballerinetta...
(1951)
- Europa '51
Europa '51 is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and Alexander Knox.-Background:...
(1952)
- Easy Years
Easy Years is a 1953 drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Nino Taranto. -Cast:* Nino Taranto* Alda Mangini - Fedora* Gino Buzzanca - Barone LaPrua* Clelia Matania - Rosina De Francesco* Armenia Balducci - Baronessina LaPrua...
(1953)
- Carosello napoletano (1954)
- La strada
La Strada is a Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini in which a naive young woman is sold to a brutish man and goes on the road as a part of his itinerant show....
(1954)
- Mambo (1954)
- Un americano a Roma (1954)
- L'oro di Napoli (1954)
- Attila
Attila is a 1954 Franco-Italian film co-production, directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Based on the life of Attila the Hun, it stars Anthony Quinn as Attila and Sophia Loren as Honoria, with Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni and Christian Marquand...
(1954)
- The Miller's Beautiful Wife
The Miller's Beautiful Wife is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini.-Cast:* Vittorio De Sica - Don Teofilo* Sophia Loren - Carmela* Marcello Mastroianni - Luca* Paolo Stoppa - Gardunia* Yvonne Sanson - Donna Dolores...
(1955)
- War and Peace
War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It is an American/Italian version, directed by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. The music score was by Nino Rota and the cinematography by Jack Cardiff...
(1956)
- Il ferroviere (1956)
- Guendalina
Guendalina is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jacqueline Sassard - Guendalina* Raffaele Mattioli - Oberdan* Sylva Koscina - Francesca, Guendalina's mother...
(1957)
- The Black Orchid (1958)
- That Kind of Woman
That Kind of Woman is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. The screenplay by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Robert Lowry , is highly reminiscent of the 1938 film The Shopworn...
(1959)
- Heller in Pink Tights
Heller In Pink Tights is a 1960 western film adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel, Heller with a Gun. It stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn and was directed by George Cukor. The movie is noted for its lavishly ornate costumes by Edith Head and its impressive photography and usage of technicolor...
(1960)
- A Breath of Scandal
A Breath of Scandal is a 1960 film adapted from Ferenc Molnar's stage play Olympia. It stars Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin and Angela Lansbury and was directed by Michael Curtiz. The film is set at the turn of the 20th century and features lush technicolor photography of Vienna and...
(1960)
- Two Women
Two Women is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi...
(1960)
- Lola
Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role...
(1961)
- A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman is a 1961 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and featuring Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Claude Brialy. It is a tribute to American musical comedy.-Plot:...
(1961)
- Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
- Cléo from 5 to 7
Cléo from 5 to 7 is a 1962 Rive Gauche film by Agnès Varda. The story depicts the life of a young singer, Florence "Cléo" Victoire, between 5 and 6:30 on the evening of June 22 in Paris....
(1962)
- Boccaccio '70
Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini...
(1962)
- Le Doulos
Le Doulos is a 1962 French crime film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was released theatrically as The Finger Man in the English-speaking world, but all video and DVD releases have used the French title...
(1962)
- L'isola di Arturo
Arturo's Island is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante. Published in 1957, it won the Premio Strega.In the novel, Arturo, a small boy, grows up on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. The island is the location of a penitentiary. Arturo lives in a gloomy mansion bequeathed to his father...
(1962)
- The Empty Canvas
The Empty Canvas is a Italian drama film directed by Damiano Damiani. The screenplay by Damiani, Tonino Guerra, and Ugo Liberatore is based on the best-selling novel La Noia by Alberto Moravia.-Synopsis:...
(1963)
- Landru
Landru is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan...
(1963)
- Les Carabiniers
The Carabineers was the fifth narrative feature film by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.-Plot:“Les Carabiniers” tells the story of two poor men called to serve in battle, lured by promises of the world’s riches...
(1963)
- Contempt
Contempt is a film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia. It stars Brigitte Bardot.-Plot:...
(1963)
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
- Marriage Italian Style (1964)
- Break Up
Break Up is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Mario* Catherine Spaak - Giovanna* Ugo Tognazzi - Man With Car* William Berger - Benny...
(1965)
- Operation Crossbow
Operation Crossbow is a 1965 spy thriller and World War II film, made from a story from Duilio Coletti and Vittoriano Petrilli and filmed at MGM-British Studios...
(1965)
- The 10th Victim
The 10th Victim is an Italian cult science fiction film directed by Elio Petri in 1965. It is based on Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story "Seventh Victim". Sheckley later published a novelization of the film in 1966.-Plot:...
(1965)
- Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic or drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.-Plot:...
(1965)
- Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains is a 1966 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel. The film is based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal. It is a coming-of-age story about a boy working at a train station in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II...
(1965, uncredited)
- Blowup
Blowup is a 1966 British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, that director's first English language film. It tells the story of a photographer's accidental and incidental involvement with a murder. The film was inspired by the 1959 short story "Las babas del diablo" Blowup (Blow-Up)...
(1966)
- The Firemen's Ball
The Firemen's Ball is a 1967 film directed by Miloš Forman. It is set at the annual ball of a small town's volunteer fire department, and the plot consists of a collection of anecdotes told within that setting...
(1967, uncredited)
- Smashing Time
Smashing Time is a 1967 British comedy film starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave. It is a satire on the 1960s media-influenced phenomenon of Swinging London.It was written by George Melly and directed by Desmond Davis...
(1967, uncredited)
- Ghosts - Italian Style
Ghosts - Italian Style is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Renato Castellani.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Maria Lojacono* Vittorio Gassman - Pasquale Lojacono* Mario Adorf - Alfredo Mariano* Aldo Giuffrè - Raffaele* Margaret Lee - Sayonara...
(1968)
- Diamonds for Breakfast
Diamonds for Breakfast is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Christopher Morahan.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno* Rita Tushingham - Bridget Rafferty* Elaine Taylor - Victoria* Margaret Blye - Honey...
(1968)
- Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni that depicts some aspects of the U.S. counterculture movement in the late 1960s. It tells the story of a young couple — an idealistic, free spirited young woman, and an aspiring radical turned fugitive...
(1970)
- The Priest's Wife
The Priest's Wife is a 1971 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Valeria Billi* Marcello Mastroianni - Don Mario Carlesi* Venantino Venantini - Maurizio* Gino Cavalieri - Don Filippo...
(1971)
- What? (1972)
- Dirty Weekend
Dirty Weekend is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Giulio Borsi* Oliver Reed - Fabrizo* Carole André - Danda* Lionel Stander - General* Bruno Cirino - Raoul* Nicoletta Machiavelli - Sylva...
(1973)
- Flesh for Frankenstein
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein is a 1973 horror film directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, Andrew Braunsberg, Louis Peraino, and Carlo Ponti...
(1973)
- The Passenger
The Passenger is a film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1975, in which Jack Nicholson stars as a reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger...
(1974)
- Sex Pot
Sex Pot is a 1975 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Capitani.-Cast:* Sophia Loren - Pupa* Marcello Mastroianni - Charlie Colletto* Aldo Maccione - Chopin* Pierre Brice - Commissaire adjoint Salvatore Lambelli...
(1975)
- L'infermiera
L'Infermiera is a 1975 film starring Ursula Andress, Jack Palance and Luciana Paluzzi, also known by the titles I Will If You Will, The Nurse, The Sensuous Nurse and The Secrets of a Sensuous Nurse.-Plot:...
(1975)
- Brutti, sporchi e cattivi
Brutti, sporchi e cattivi is an Italian language film directed by Ettore Scola and released in 1976.It won the Prix de la Mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. Nino Manfredi plays the main protagonist....
(1976)
- The Cassandra Crossing
The Cassandra Crossing is a 1976 British disaster film directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starring Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg and O. J...
(1976)
- A Special Day
A Special Day is a 1977 Italian language film which tells the story of a housewife and her neighbor who stay at home in Rome on the day that Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini. It stars Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and John Vernon, as well as a special cameo appearance by Alessandra...
(1977)