Biography: Gino Cervi |

Actor Gino Cervi appeared in his first play in 1924, and his first film eight years later. On stage, Cervi revelled in such extrovert roles as Othello and Falstaff. In films, Cervi endeared himself to audiences all over the continent in three prewar... more
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Cast: Vittorio Gassman   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 97min
Two Sicilian bachelors deflower a virgin and find themselves in hot-water with her shot-gun slinging father in this Italian comedy. They are also in trouble with the local carabinieri. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets (1963)
Tags: Drama 
Length: 88min
As young and penniless Rik roams about Rome, he finds lady luck on his side for a spell. Not only does he receive a bounty of coins from a weighing machine, but he also wins cash from a restaurant which awards him as its 10,000th customer. Not to...

Cast: Pierre Brasseur Annie Girardot   
Tags: Crime Comedy Crime Historical Film 
Length: 159min
Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An international all-star cast appears in these filmed playlets, wherein each perfect murder turns out to be less than perfect....

Cast: Alain Delon René Clément   
Tags: Satire Period Film Comedy 
Length: 120min
Just after he made Alain Delon a star in the successful Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), director René Clement works with him again in this slightly long but entertaining satire set in Italy in the 1920s. Ulisse (Delon) is a naive young man out looking...

Il Compagno Don Camillo (1965)
Cast: Fernandel   
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy 
Length: 110min
Don Camillo (Fernandel) is a priest who travels to Moscow in this comedy culture clash. Don accompanies his archival communist mayor Peppone (Gino Cervi) and his wife (Leda Gloria) on a goodwill trip to the Soviet Union, and the priest is helped by...

Cast: Gino Cervi   
Length: 106min
When an insurance salesman comes to a small Italian town, he is mistaken for a Fascist official sent from Rome. He is greeted by town officials and has an audience with a man plotting a resistance movement. The innocent salesman is caught up in the...

Tags: War Drama War Drama 
Length: 108min
This is a dramatic, wartime story about the internecine fighting between Italians who opposed Mussolini during the war and those who supported fascism, even after 1945. Anna (Belinda Lee) is married to an invalid who spends his war years in their home...

Cast: Ava Gardner Anthony Franciosa   
Tags: Period Film Biopic Drama Historical Film Romance 
Length: 111min
The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an uneven drama. Anthony Franciosa is the artist, and Ava Gardner plays his paramour, the Duchess of Alba. While the Prime...

Tags: Comedy Crime Comedy 
Length: 105min
French comedian Fernandel stars in this entertaining comedy based on a short story by O. Henry, ~The Ransom of Red Chief. Antoine (Fernandel) has the brilliant idea of kidnapping the son of a millionaire in order to raise the money he and his partner...

Cast: Rossano Brazzi   
Tags: Romance Historical Film Action 
Length: 97min
In this sword and sandal epic set during Rome's attack on ancient Greece, both the Roman and Carthaginian armies are battling for possession of Syracuse. Brave Archimedes is assigned to head the defense of the city. He is temporarily distracted after...

























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