Big Deal 1958  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rosanna Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Carlo Pisacane, Tiberio Murgia, Gina Rovere, Renato Terra
This film makes use of the neorealistic style and provides good satire of the "bank heist" genre. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the plot involves amateur crooks who try to rob a pawnshop. A 1987 sequel, "Big Deal After 20 Years," picks up the story 20 years later.
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon 1973   PG, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Valentina Cortese, Lee Montague, Adolfo Celi, Michael Feast, Nicholas Willatt, John Sharp, Francesco Guerrieri, Carlo Pisacane, Aristide Caporale, Peter Firth
This is the biography of St. Francis of Assisi (Graham Faulkner) who rejected material wealth after his spiritual revelation. Francis returns to his home following the war and finds that disease and war have ruined his neighborhood. Francis is also ill, but he recovers and his life has changed. Instead of drinking in bars, Francis spends his time meditating about the beauty of life. This culminates in Francis renouncing his former life and dedicating himself to the simple life as a man of God. 1 User Review
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| | kav 05/15/2007 | | unfashionably beautiful and idealistic,no post modern cynicism at all,moving and non didactic. |
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Death Rides a Horse 1968  R, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Giulio Petroni
Cast: John Phillip Law, Lee Van Cleef, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Anthony Dawson, Jose Torres, Franco Balducci, Bruno Corazzari, Felicita Fanny, Ignazio Leone, Carlo Pisacane, Guglielmo Spoletini
Bill (John Phillip Law) sets out to hunt down and take revenge on the gang members who killed his parents when he was a young boy. Along the way, he teams up with gunfighter Ryan (Lee Van Cleef) who is also searching for the gang to extract his own revenge on the gangsters for taking his money and causing his imprisonment. Lots of shooting and other violence in this spaghetti Western.
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| 1. Big Deal (1958)
aka: Big Deal on Madonna Street
2. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973)
3. Death Rides a Horse (1968)
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