Bad Man's River 1972  PG, 89 min.
Genre: Western / Comedy
Director: Eugenio Martin
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, James Mason, Gina Lollobrigida, Simon Andreu, Diana Lorys, Gianni Garko, Aldo Sambrell, Sergio Fantoni, Jess Hahn, Daniel Martin, Luis Rivera, Lone Ferck, Eduardo Fajardo, Jose Manuel Martin, Francisco Nieto
Roy King (Lee Van Cleef) and his outlaw gang rob a bank, and, while leaving on a train, King meets and marries beautiful Alice (Gina Lollobrigida). But, Alice has set King up and steals the loot. Now, Senor Montero (James Mason) offers King's outlaw gang $1 million to blow up a Mexican fortress, but the outlaws are once again outsmarted by the devious Alice.
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Beat the Devil 1953  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward Underdown, Ivor Barnard, Marco Tulli, Aldo Silvani, Bernard Lee, Mario Perrone, Giulio Donnini, Saro Urzi, Juan de Landa, Manuel Serano
A strange assortment of cohorts (Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward Underdown, and Jennifer Jones) are plotting a swindle involving rights to uranium-rich land with plans to strike it rich. They board a steamer that breaks down and sinks on their way to Africa, and they are taken hostage by Arabian gunrunners. Now, as a result of their misadventure, their lives rest in the hands of the gunrunners.
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell 1968 PG, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas, Lee Grant, Janet Margolin, Marian McCargo, Naomi Stevens, Philippe Leroy, Renzo Palmer, Giovanna Galletti, James Mishler, Dale Cummings
During their 20-year reunion, three ex-servicemen realize each one has been financially supporting Carla (Gina Lollobrigida) and her daughter because each believes he is the father.
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Come September 1961  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak, Brenda De Banzie, Rosanna Rory, Ronald Howard, Joel Grey, Ronnie Haran, Chris Seitz, Joan Freeman
Rich American Robert Talbot (Rock Hudson) arrives at his Italian villa for a vacation in July rather than the usual September visit. That poses a problem for Maurice (Walter Slezak), the caretaker, since he runs the villa as a hotel when Robert is not there. But Robert's problems prove greater as he tries to stop his girlfriend Lisa (Gina Lollobrigida) from marrying another, and also finds himself acting as a chaperon for American girls who are being hounded by oversexed boys at his villa.
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Crossed Swords 1954 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Milton Krims
Cast: Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Cesare Danova, Nadia Gray, Roldano Lupi, Riccardo Rioli, Alberto Rabagliati, Paola Mori, Silvio Bagolini, Renato Chiantoni, Pietro Tordi, Alfredo Rizzo
Adventurer Renzo (Errol Flynn) fights against an evil plot to oust the Duke of Sidona (Pietro Tordi) from the Italian court, and, in his spare time, Renzo romances the Duke's daughter (Gina Lollobrigida) who assures him that marriage will not end his world of swashbuckling.
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Go Naked in the World 1961  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ranald MacDougall
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Nancy R. Pollock, Will Kuluva, Philip Ober, John Kellogg, Tracey Roberts, Yale Wexler
Pete Stratton (Ernest Borgnine) is the wealthy father who is very concerned when his son Nick (Tony Franciosa) falls in love with the town prostitute (Gina Lollobrigida).
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Hotel Paradiso 1966  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Glenville
Cast: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount, Akim Tamiroff, Marie Bell, Leonard Rossiter, Peter Glenville, Douglas Byng, Robertson Hare
When Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) and Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida) try to check into the Hotel Paradiso for a night of love, everything that can–goes wrong.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1956 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Horror
Director: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet, Alain Cuny, Robert Hirsch, Danielle Dumont, Philippe Clay, Maurice Sarfati, Jean Tissier, Valentine Tessier, Jacques Hilling, Jacques Dufilho, Roland Bailly, Roger Blin, Marianne Oswald
Anthony Quinn does a fine job as hunchback Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who tries to fetch gypsy Esmeralda (Gina Lollobrigida) for the Chief Justice Frollo (Alain Cuny). He does reach Esmeralda and falls in love with her, but his efforts to bring her to Frollo fail, and Quasimodo gets arrested. Now, Esmeralda runs to the arms of Phoebus (Jean Danet)–leaving Quasimodo heartbroken.
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Imperial Venus 1963 PG, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Stephen Boyd, Gabriele Ferzetti, Raymond Pellegrin, Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Giulio Bosetti, Gianni Santuccio, Elsa Albani, Andrea Bosic, Umberto Raho, Nando Tamberlani
Complex and sensual Paulette Bonaparte (Gina Lollobrigida) becomes involved in numerous sexual affairs during her brother Napoleon's (Raymond Pellegrin) rise and ultimate fall from power.
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Never So Few 1959 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson, Paul Henreid, Philip Ahn, Robert Bray, Whit Bissell, Kipp Hamilton, John Hoyt, Richard Lupino
Capt. Tom Reynolds (Frank Sinatra) leads British and American guerilla fighters against Japanese invaders in Burma during World War II. While on leave in Calcutta to bring the doctor, Capt. Grey Travis (Peter Lawford), and medical supplies back to his troops, Tom meets and romances Carla (Gina Lollobrigida) who is the mistress of local businessman Nikko Regas (Paul Henreid). Tom rejoins the troops and then finds that his reinforcements have been killed by Nationalist Chinese forces. Against orders, Reynolds leads his guerilla fighters into China and seeks retribution through bloodshed. A court martial follows, but Reynolds is able to make his point and is cleared. Meanwhile, Carla must decide whether or not to change her life and go to the U.S. with Reynolds.
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Solomon and Sheba 1959 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar, John Crawford, Finlay Currie, Harry Andrews, Laurence Naismith, Jose Nieto, Alejandro Rey, Maruchi Fresno, William Devlin, Jack Gwillim, Julio Pena
Tyrone Power was working on this film in the role of Solomon when he died; Yul Brynner replaced him. The story is based on the Biblical epic of Sheba's (Gina Lollobrigida) seductive attempt to bring down Solomon's rule of Israel.
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Strange Bedfellows 1965 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Edward Judd, Howard St. John, Dave King, Terry-Thomas, Nancy Kulp, Arthur Haynes, Peggy Rea, Joseph Sirola, Bernard Fox, Lucy Landau, Edith Atwater, Hedley Mattingly
Carter (Rock Hudson), a stuffy executive for an oil company, meets Toni (Gina Lollobrigida), a Bohemian artist. The impulsive couple marry but soon find that they disagree on everything and separate. Five years later, they meet on the eve of their divorce, and the impulsiveness returns, but the fighting continues. When Carter finds that he is up for a promotion and realizes that being married will be helpful in get the promotion, the fun really begins.
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Trapeze 1956 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, John Puleo, Minor Watson, Sid James, Gerard Landry, Jean-Pierre Kerien, Gamil Ratib, Pierre Tabard
Circus performer Tino Orsini (Tony Curtis) wants to be the seventh trapeze artist ever to perform the feat of a triple somersault. To obtain his dream, he asks veteran trapeze artist Mike Ribble (Burt Lancaster) for help. Ribble agrees to work with Orsini, they become friends, and all goes well–until the circus' beautiful tumbler Lola (Gina Lollobrigida) enters the scene, and a love triangle threatens the friendship of Orsini and Ribble.
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Woman of Straw 1964 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Johnny Sekka, Peter Madden, Alexander Knox, Michael Goodliffe, Andre Morell, Edward Underdown, Douglas Wilmer
A wheel-chair-bound millionaire (Ralph Richardson) is murdered, and more than one person has a motive for the killing.
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| 1. Bad Man's River (1972)
2. Beat the Devil (1953)
3. Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
4. Come September (1961)
5. Crossed Swords (1954)
6. Go Naked in the World (1961)
7. Hotel Paradiso (1966)
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
9. Imperial Venus (1963)
10. Never So Few (1959)
11. The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968)
12. Solomon and Sheba (1959)
13. Strange Bedfellows (1965)
14. Trapeze (1956)
15. Woman of Straw (1964)
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