Franco Coop
Nacimiento : 1891-09-27, Napoli, Italy
Muerte : 1962-03-27
Bastiano
Un príncipe enamora a una rica heredera norteamericana, pero al final vuelve con la mujer a la que estaba prometido.
baronetto sir Greenwood
Pensando que se trata de un enfermo con los días contados, al inocentón de Tony lo ingresa en una villa una ricachona snob, con su grupo de amigas dedicadas a la benificencia. Él no sabe por qué está allí, pero está encantado, pues le tienen como a un rey, además se enamora de la criada... Pero el hermano de la rica es un descerebrado que quiere su cráneo y los sirvientes están imprimiendo billetes falsos...
Il maître della 'Conchiglia'
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes to the village, everything happens, but as in Cinderella's fable, Claudio Villa falls in love with the seventh daughter, who is actually a child, and everything settles.
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
Il sindaco di Catania
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
Idominatore #3
Nápoles, año 1950. Un juglar que vive con su numerosa familia en un viejo carromato. Un golpe de viento esparce sus partituras, cobrando vida sobre un escenario teatral imaginario los argumentos de cada una de las canciones. Una inolvidable cabalgata por la historia de la pintoresca ciudad portuaria y con las mejores canzonetas napolitanas.
Anastasio, il maggiordomo
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Il direttore del manicomio
A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
Liala es la primera actriz de una compañía de cómicos de la legua. De ella dependen los ingresos del grupo. Al final, sacrificará su amor por el futuro de sus amigos.
Diversos números musicales inspirados por varias canciones.
Marius, il capo usciere
Cobette, cantante y bailarina de opereta, actúa en una pequeña ciudad de la cual quieren expulsarla por su conducta y actuación escandalosa. Cuando un puritano juez cierra su espectáculo, se vengará implicando a las autoridades en escándalos amorosos.
Otto Kruger
Un barbero está prometido con su bella manicura, pero sus celos le llevan a enfrentarse con los clientes, lo cual repercute en su negocio.
A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
El Kebir
Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.
Cosimo Pezza
Gionanni Illes, padre di Anna
The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
Il marchese Andrea Del Fermo
Duke Di Cosse
La hija del jorobado Rigoletto se enamora del rijoso rey del país y el drama estalla...
Maurizio Devalier
The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
Don Raffaele, the barber
Mastro Agostino Miciacio, zapatero, portero y devoto de San Juan degollado, trata de averiguar quien ha estado robando el aceite que mantiene las velas encendidas al santo. Por otro lado, no aprueba al novio de su hija y se opone a su matrimonio.
Falso brigante
In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Poliziotto privato
Il presidente della filarmonica
A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
A young lady is employed by a millionaire. She is kidnapped instead of the rich woman by a gang, on behalf of people who were interested in the rich woman's disappearance. She is brought to a special hotel, where the guests are people who are imprisoned because their families wanted to get rid of them. The rich woman is finally able to convince a police officer to investigate the strange vanishing. A prisoner goes mad and sets fire to the prison, which could not have been detected otherwise, freeing the disappeared at last.
Matteo
Mezio, Roman soldier
Película histórica que se centra en la figura del procónsul romano Escipión y en sus esfuerzos para terminar con el poder del general cartaginés Aníbal.
Vincenzino
In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
L'ufficiale della marina mercantile
L'amministratore
Sebastiano
The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.
banditore del circo
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Giovanni
Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
L'impresario Veraldi
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Salvatore Gotta. Narra la desdichada y rocambolesca vida de la estrella de cine Gaby Doriot (Isa Miranda). Tras un intento fallido de suicidio, es ingresada en un hospital, donde bajo los efectos de la anestesia empieza a rememorar su pasado y sus desventuradas y trágicas relaciones amorosas. Tras escapar de la Alemania Nazi, Max Ophüls se estableció definitivamente en Francia. Ésta es su única película italiana. Tras varios años de ostracismo, la figura de Max Ophüls está siendo rehabilitada por parte de críticos y aficionados al cine.
A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.
Leone
Carlo Lirossi, il portiere di casa Calandri
During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.