Umberto Spadaro

Umberto Spadaro

Рождение : 1904-11-08,

Смерть : 1981-10-12

Профиль

Umberto Spadaro

Фильмы

Smell of Flesh
Doctor
Domenico Modguno is a horn dog who loves looking up skirts and travels back to Italy to stay with his brother and wife. His brothers stepdaughter is hot and he spends most of the movie forcing himself on her, and for a change of pace her mother.
Il gatto mammone
Doctor
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
The Barons
Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.
The Governess
Catania, Italy. The Platania family hires a new French governess, the beautiful Caterina. The life of the whole family will be soon turned upside down.
Sun City
1600, Southern Italy is under the Spanish Government. A few years before an attempt at rebellion, inspired by the preaching of the philosopher and monk Tommaso Campanella, is severely quelled by the Government. Tommaso Campanella, under the charge of the plot, is put into a prison in Naples and waits for the conclusion of an endless process. Throughout the Calabrian countries his name is wrapped up in legend, he becomes almost a myth. Someone believes he has escaped from prison and wanders about under a false name.
The Big Family
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
Lost Treasure of the Incas
Darmon Henchman
A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, where they come up against an outlaw gang that is searching for a buried Inca treasure, which is guarded by a lot Inca tribe.
Le ore nude
Nonno
In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him.
Соблазненная и покинутая
il cugino di Ascalone
Пьетро Джерми, непревзойденный живописатель нравов итальянского общества, создал полную страсти и лиризма трагикомедию. Юная Аньезе, дочь добропорядочного горожанина, уступила домогательствам Пеппино — жениха ее старшей сестры — и забеременела. Отец организует охоту на обидчика, но не для мести, а чтобы привести соблазнителя под венец и восстановить поруганную честь семьи. Старшей же сестре срочно подыскивают замену — разорившегося беззубого барона.
За пригоршню долларов
Miguel - Rojo Gunman (uncredited)
Фильм является вольным римейком самурайской драмы Акиры Куросавы «Телохранитель» (1961), действие которого перенесено на границу США и Мексики. В небольшой пограничный городок Сан-Мигель приезжает бродяга-стрелок (Клинт Иствуд). Жителей на улицах нет, первый, кого он встречает — усаженный на лошадь мертвец, к спине которого приколота издевательская записка «Adios, amigo» («Прощай, друг»). Со слов хозяина салуна стрелок узнаёт, что городок стал ареной противоборства двух банд, которые занимаются контрабандой — мексиканцев Рохо и американцев Бакстеров. Обе банды равно сильны, и ни одна не может взять верх над другой...
The Eye of the Needle
Don Luigino Trizzini
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
The Four Monks
L'ortolano
Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
Ад посреди города
Direttore del carcere
Молодая горничная Лина попадает в тюрьму из-за махинаций своего возлюбленного. В тюрьме она попадает под опеку Эгле, женщины, наученной горьким опытом жизни и тюрьмы, которая пользуется огромным авторитетом. Она подталкивает Лину в сторону большей независимости и агрессивности. Эгле выливает на девушку весь грязный быт тюрьмы, развращая ее своими аморальными действами. Позже Лину оправдывают, но она не забывает наставления Эгле… Она не может вернуться к прежней жизни. Вскоре она снова попадает в тюрьму, но уже не наивной девушкой, а вульгарной и озлобленной проституткой, тем самым шокируя даже свою «учительницу».
Love and Troubles
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
Ya tenemos coche
Don José
Don Jose is a good family man and a model employee. He lives in his house as a King with his wife and children who make him happy. His only enemy is Dona Rosa, her mother, who has the habit of saying the last word on everything.
Большая голубая дорога
Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer
Рыбак Скварцио живет со своей семьей на небольшом острове у далматинского побережья Италии. Как и его односельчане, Скварцио борется с тяжелыми условиями жизни, нехваткой рыбы в близлежащих водах и эксплуатацией со стороны местного оптовика. Но если другие рыбаки ловят рыбу сетями, он, добывая тол из снарядов, оставшихся со времен Второй мировой войны, глушит рыбу в открытом море, вызывая крайнее неодобрение у односельчан-рыбаков. Однажды он попытался сделать это прямо в прибрежных водах, но на этот раз море предъявляет ему огромный счет...
Manos sucias
Valero
Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but is haunted by what he did to obtain it.
Bitterly
Лучшие годы
Gino
Филипп – инженер-конструктор, руководящий проектом по возведению громадной дамбы. Он должен уложиться в установленные сроки сдачи объекта, несмотря на возникающие на его пути препятствия – забастовки, несчастные случаи и т.д. Однако, есть еще и другая причина, заставляющая его спешить – у него больное сердце и жить ему осталось совсем немного…
Дон Камилло и депутат Пеппоне
Bezzi, il contadino
В центре сюжета снова итальянский деревенский священник Дон Камилло и его извечный и друг, и враг, мэр Пеппоне. На этот раз они решают принять участие в выборах в местные органы власти, хотя на самом деле не заинтересованы в победе. Дон Камилло предлагает Пеппоне помочь сдать важный экзамен по квалификации в обмен на постройку нового здания церкви.
Волшебное селение
Don Puglisi
Француз инженер-строитель Робер (Робер Ламуре) решает провести отпуск в кемпинге на Сицилии, куда несколько раньше уехала порядком уже надоевшая ему любовница. По дороге, в поезде, он знакомится с девушкой, итальянкой по происхождению, Терезой (Лючия Бозе) и пускает в ход все свое обаяние, чтобы добиться ее любви. Это ему удается, но не сразу.
Non vogliamo morire
Capitano del battello
Fatal Desire
Uncle Brasi
In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
Passionate song
commissario
Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.
Утраченные грезы
Don Antonio Percucoco
Анна Дзакео жаждет настоящей истинной любви. Увы, девушка настолько великолепна, что истинная любовь является последней вещью, о которой большинство мужчин думает при виде ее прекрасных форм. Однажды Анна знакомится с моряком Андре и понимает, что настоящая любовь пришла в ее сердце и свадьба не за горами. Анна устраивается на работу в рекламное агентство, где ей предлагают запечатлеть на рекламном плакате ее замечательные, стройные ножки. Анна возмущена, но фотограф обманом делает снимки. Фото вышло в тираж - публика в восторге, родственники возмущены, будущий муж разгневан и отрекается от своей возлюбленной: его предрассудки сильнее любви...
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
Padre putativo di Jolanda
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
Lasciateci in pace
Achille Buongiorno
A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
Serenata amara
Il maestro di musica
Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.
Il segreto delle tre punte
colonnello Grimaldi
The Eternal Chain
maresciallo della legione straniera
As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home.
The Man in My Life
L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting herself and her child as a prostitute, Madeleine manages to give her daughter an expensive girl's-school education, all the while keeping her own identity and profession a secret. The girl grows up to be an insufferable snob; nonetheless, Madeleine attempts to re-establish a relationship. Things take a sorry turn when the daughter takes drastic actions to defend her mother's honor.
Appointment for Murder
Detective Pietrangeli
A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
A Woman Has Killed
Gustavo Castelli
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)
Dogs and Cats
don Filippo
Lebbra bianca
Commissario capo
Outlaw Girl
Doctor Micheli
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
Angel in the crowd
The Outlaws
don Ciccio Balestrieri
Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.
Pact with the Devil
Scoppola - the killer
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
Il nido di falasco
Luccio
Angelo
Don Gennaro
An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of an encounter between his wife and an American GI. Released in America as "Angelo"
Difficult Years
Aldo Piscitello
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
Похитители велосипедов
(uncredited)
Послевоенный Рим, давно неработающий Антонио Рикки вне себя от радости - он наконец-то находит работу. Но в первый же трудовой день у него украли велосипед, без которого невозможно работать! Вместе с маленьким сыном Бруно он пытается найти в огромном городе украденный велосипед, от которого зависит жизнь его семьи...
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere
Gegè
Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
Il corriere di ferro
Tombolo, paradiso nero
cantante
Fumeria d’oppio
A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
Malacarne
il gobbo
A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca
Vietato ai minorenni
Totò nella fossa dei leoni
Lo stregone
The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
Sempre più difficile
Mucugno
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
Senza cielo