The Bible: In the Beginning... 1966  N/R, 174 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Bible
Director: John Huston
Cast: Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd, George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole, Franco Nero, Zoe Sallis, Gabriele Ferzetti, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Pupella Maggio, Robert Rietty, Peter Heinze
Using the Book of Genesis as its source, this film has some good moments with stars taking on roles of well-known Biblical characters. Among those featured are Adam (Michael Parks), Eve (Ulla Bergryd), Cain (Richard Harris), Abel (Franco Nero), and Noah (John Huston).
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Le Amiche 1955  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Girlfriends
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Maria Gambarelli, Luciano Volpato
This is one of Antonioni's better, early films as he brings out the problems that confront a woman who moves to Turin, Italy from Rome to work in a boutique. Her doomed relationships eventually result in losing her job and heading back to Rome.
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Love at Twenty 1962  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Francois Darbon, Rosy Varte, Nami Tamura, Barbara Lass, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Cristina Gajoni, Geronimo Meynier, Koji Furuhata, Barbara Frey, Zbigniew Cybulski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Vera Tschechowa, Werner Finck
This episode of the story of Antoine Doinel's (Jean-Pierre Leaud) life, which began with "The 400 Blows" (1959), presents five stories that are told to reflect love among the younger generation. Five directors–Francois Truffaut, Renzo Rossellini, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, and Andrzej Wajda–present the stories, which are each set in a different country (France, Italy, Japan, West Germany, and Poland).
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Pirates of Capri 1949 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action
aka: Captain Sirocco
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Alan Curtis, Mariella Lotti, Massimo Serato, Mikhail Rasumny, Virginia Belmont, Franca Marzi, William Tubbs, Alberto Califano, Maria Auritano, Michel Sorel, Eleonora Rossi Drago
By day, pirate Captain Sirocco (Louis Hayward) disguises himself as Count di Amalfi, which enables him to spy on the Naples court of Queen Carolina (Binnie Barnes). At night, Sirocco puts on a mask and leads the rebels of Capri in an effort to overthrow Queen Carolina and her evil police chief Commodore Van Diel (Alan Curtis). Good action scenes.
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Sword of the Conqueror 1962  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Carlo Campogalliani
Cast: Jack Palance, Guy Madison, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Edda Ferronao, Carlo D'Angelo, Vittorio Sanipoli, Edy Vessel, Ivan Palance, Andrea Bosic, Raf Baldassarre
Set in the sixth century A.D., this story involves warring families in Lombardy.
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| 1. The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
aka: The Bible
2. Le Amiche (1955)
aka: The Girlfriends
3. Love at Twenty (1962)
4. Pirates of Capri (1949)
aka: Captain Sirocco
5. Sword of the Conqueror (1962)
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