Franco Fontana

Películas

Operation Kid Brother
Art Direction
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.
Iremos a la ciudad
Costume Design
Lenka y su hermano ciego viven en la campiña yugoslava. Creen que su padre, judío, ha muerto en la guerra. Cada vez temen más la violencia antisemita. Un partisano les protege. El padre vuelve un día, y sacrifica su vida para salvar la del joven partisano, escondido en el desván y herido. Las SS detienen a los hijos...
Iremos a la ciudad
Production Design
Lenka y su hermano ciego viven en la campiña yugoslava. Creen que su padre, judío, ha muerto en la guerra. Cada vez temen más la violencia antisemita. Un partisano les protege. El padre vuelve un día, y sacrifica su vida para salvar la del joven partisano, escondido en el desván y herido. Las SS detienen a los hijos...
Bloody Pit of Horror
Production Design
Película italiana de terror gótico basada en los escritos del Marqués de Sade y dirigida por Massimo Pupillo, con el seudónimo de Max Hunter. Cuenta la historia de un grupo de modelos que son convocadas para una sesión fotográfica en un castillo. Pero el dueño del castillo es un lunático que cree ser la reencarnación de un verdugo del siglo XVII: el Verdugo Carmesí, y está decidido a matar a todas las jóvenes.
Sedotti e bidonati
Production Design
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
Copacabana Palace
Art Direction
Tres simpáticos compinches se encuentran en Copacabana para pasar el carnaval. Tres hermosas azafatas desean divertirse, pero sus anfitriones cariocas están casados...
Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Production Design
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
Mujeres de lujo
Production Design
Diversas parejas se forman y se separan durante un crucero de lujo por las costas de Italia.
The Night of the Great Attack
Production Design
In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
Vacaciones en Mallorca
Production Design
Dos jóvenes italianos que pasan sus vacaciones en Mallorca conocen a las mujeres de su vida. Sin embargo, uno de ellos, tardará en darse cuenta, pues había apostado que conquistaría a una modelo.
The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Production Design
Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.
Pirate of the Half Moon
Set Decoration
Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
El grito
Production Design
Después de ser abandonado por Irma (Alida Valli), Aldo (Steve Cochran) deja el trabajo y emprende un largo viaje por el norte de Italia. En su peregrinación conoce mujeres que comparten con él una sensación de inquietud y marginación: Elvia, una amiga resurgida del pasado, y la joven Virginia, que atiende una gasolinera y vive con su anciano padre en una oprimente soledad; Andreína, una prostituta que alberga, ingenuamente, la esperanza de encontrar un lugar en el mundo donde empezar una nueva vida. Con cada una de ellas, Aldo intenta establecer una relación. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Free Woman
Set Decoration
Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.
Mamma, perdonami!
Production Design
Three Forbidden Stories
Set Decoration
Tres episodios que narran la historia de tres muchachas, refugiadas en el hueco de la escalera de un palacio deshabitado, que esperan una oferta de trabajo.
Cuore forestiero
Production Design
Pentimento
Production Design
A cabaret singer, now a widow, is dethroned and expelled downstairs by a fiery rival.
A Woman Has Killed
Set Decoration
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of technical and financial problems and working Sundays with the pieces of film given to him bit by bit, Cottafavi shot Una donna ha ucciso, a minor film that marked his comeback to directing. (Gianni Rondolino)
Beauties in Capri
Production Design
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Io sono il capataz
Assistant Costume Designer
Confunden a un joven con un peligroso revolucionario y es enviado de inmediato a Parazuela, donde se pone al frente de las tropas rebeldes.