Discovering Ischia
What about these musical films with a melodic music? Typical film music of the 50s as a function of the repertoire of Neapolitan songs.
- Title LACRIME D'AMORE
- Release date(s) 1954, ITALIA
- Genre MUSICAL_COMEDY
- Running time 90 Min
- Production FORTUNATO MISIANO PER ROMANA FILM
- Direction PINO MERCANTI
- Starring: Nadia Bianchi, Mimmo Billi, Nada Costese, Dina De Santis, Bianca Fusari, Piero Giagnoni, Enrico Glori
- Photography: Augusto Tiezzi
- Music: Carlo Innocenzi
Plot
Grazia, wife of the rich owner Davide Montalto, from Genoa, knows in Naples Mario Benetti, employed in a factory with a beautiful voice. Between the two love flourishes, though Mario is engaged to Rosella. To avoid the dangerous allure of passion, Grazia returns to Genoa, where to distract takes the initiative to set up a magazine, which brings together young people and society ladies. If needed, is the participation of a Neapolitan singer, Davide Montalto, which ignores the previous romantic relationships between Grazia and Mario Benetti, may want to call in Genoa the latter. Mariocomes and singing alongside Grazia reap laurels, while the common activities and successes together feed their passion. An attempt to blackmail by the comm. Goebritz, a businessman opponent of Davide, that does not exacerbate, Grazia decides to leave her husband, after a frank explanation and left for Rome with Mario who, for his part, came off completely from Rosella. While in Rome Mario Radio follows the new successes, is unexpected a mournful news. The industrial Montalto and his two sons, parties on board an aircraft, have disappeared. The tragic announcement deeply affects Grazia, who became the seriousness of his offense, if they repent and ask God for the salvation of his fervent prayer. Having said goodbye to Mario forever, it sets out. The story ends in the best way: Davide is found, a little battered, but alive, the children were not on the plane. In Montalto’s house has returned the peace; Mario marries Rosella.
Femmine di Lusso is a 1960 film, directed by Giorgio Bianchi, also known under the title of Incontro aTaormina.
- Title FEMMINE DI LUSSO
- Other title INTRIGO A TAORMINA
- Release date(s) 1960
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 109 Min
- Production DARIO SABATELLO PER ITALGLORIA
- Direction GIORGIO BIANCHI
- Starring: Gino Bartali, Marcello Bonini Olas, Ugo Tognazzi
- Photography: Tino Santoni
- Editing: Adriana Novelli
- Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Plot
The Commendatore Lemeni leaves by his yacht for a cruise, from the port of Lacco Ameno going to touch the coasts of Sicily. During the trip he was among the guests on board are intertwined relationships and misunderstandings arise. Alberto Bressan did woo his wife Adriana by Viscount Luca Sanvin, with unconfessed about getting a divorce and then marry his mistress Elena Legarde, he discovers that it is the former wife of Luca. Luciana was invited on board by the Commendatore with the pretext to pose for a series of publicity photos, but in reality to be shown as appetizing bait to the son, unswervingly misogynist, while failing in its persistent attempts, he meets the love in the person of a young man who was romantically linked some time ago. Finally, Walter, the photographer, who was followed by his girlfriend Greta secretly on the yacht, successful, much to the relief of the Commendatore, suffocating the girl to fall in love the apathetic Ugo. Elena will end then to reconcile with her ex-husband.
Funny without being exciting and eventful farcical comedy-adventure of Giuseppe Colizzi, inventor of the western spaghetti and sponsor of the tandem Bud Spencer-Terence Hill.
- Title ARRIVANO JOE E MARGHERITO
- Release date(s) 1974, FILM ITALO-FRANCESE
- Genre Commedia
- Running time 105 Min
- Production CARLO PONTI
- Direction GIUSEPPE COLIZZI, INVENTORE DEL DUO SPENCER-HILL
- Starring: Keith Carradine, Tom Skerritt, Sybil Danning
- Photography: Marcello Masciocchi
- Editing: Antonio Siciliano
- Music: Maurizio De Angelis, Guido De Angelis
Plot
A comedy by the fast pace and bright aspect. Adventures of an odd couple: Joe and Margherito, who must make a top-secret mission, take a Sicilian boss of the bad life and transfer him in the United States. To this end we require coldness, determination and discretion. But the one, Joe, an American man, is unable to weave plots mafia. And his companion, Margherito is a simple fisherman. The troubles and mishaps follow each other relentlessly. Another band tends to impede their mission. At one point in their path an extraordinary figure of British gentleman, an emblematic individual, who will win the two the right way.
In the 70s the trend towards disengagement becomes standard, with the deterioration of the social situation and the spread of terrorism, the ongoing disputes, advancing the economic crisis and policy increasingly unable to govern the country. Even the comedy takes the direction of escape and production of series B, in which the current erotic is witness of the disconnect with the public and with the ability to read the real that had characterized. (Russo, 2002 p 154). Conforming to the production of the 70s in the rest of Italy, Ischia lends itself to become locations for the movie, "La Svergognata" film shot in '74, directed by Giuliano Biagetti. In '76 follows the film "La Profesoressa di scienze naturali" shot in Ischia in '76, directed by Michele Tarantini, who in recent years gives rise to a series of erotic- comic comedies interpreted by the sexy divas of the moment, in this case Lilli Carati. The next year there is the production of the film: "La vergine, il toro e il capricorno", directed by Luciano Martino, producer, director and Italian screenwriter.
- Title LA VERGINE, IL TORO E IL CAPRICORNO
- Release date(s 1977, ITALIA
- Genre EROTIC
- Running time 95 Min
- Production DEVON MEDUSA
- Direction LUCIANO MARTINO
- Starring: Olga Bisera, Edwige Fenech, Alberto Lionello, Ray Lovelock, Aldo Maccione, Erna Schürer, Alvaro Vitali
- Photography: Giancarlo Ferrando
- Editing: Enzo Alabiso
- Music: Franco Pisano
Plot
The Milan Gianni Ferretti, building speculator in Rome, cheating on his wife Giulia with secretaries, typists and friends, but it is safe, with good reason, of his fidelity. After a fake adultery, however, staged to get him jealous, Julia decides to take revenge seriously. On Ischia, where she went secretly dropped two mature suitors, arrives as young lover Patrizio and she take him to Rome. Gianni realizes the truth, but he consoles himself immediately into the arms of yet another typist.
Shot in Ischia and Africa. The Last Mercenary is a former mercenary who, for love of the beautiful girlfriend Joanna decides to change his life, but some former comrades involved in drug trafficking. Rolf accepts only well meant. Traffickers make-up, in revenge, killing Joanna and Rolf takes revenge in turn.
- Title ROLF
- Release date(s) 1983, ITALIA
- Genre ADVENTURE FILM
- Running time 92 Min
- Other title THE LAST MERCENARY
- Production MARIO SICILIANO PER METHEUS FILM
- Direction MARIO SICILIANO
- Starring: Tony Marsina, Ketty Nicholas, Tony Raccosta
- Photography: Luigi Ciccarese
- Editing: Franco Malvestito
- Music: Fabio Frizzi
Plot
The protagonist, a former mercenary in war in Honduras, living in a small town in Tunis with the sole desire to forget the past of violence and marry his Joanna. The police does not lose sight of him, because "it is not possible" that Rolf is returned to normal after the experiences of death. Arrive five of his former comrades, led by John, who propose, since that is now the civilian pilot, to carry in a certain place a box behind drug lavish compensation. Our first refuses, but then agrees, but only to destroy the deadly load of stuff. The five then retaliate by raping and killing his beloved Joanna. Rolf in turn swears revenge invites five in a bush and, using the old trick of guerrilla warfare, implementing gimmicks brutal and violent, delete them all. Then, exhausted and almost devoid of life reasons, leave handcuffed by police officers who seek him.
In the 70s the trend towards disengagement becomes standard, with the deterioration of the social situation and the spread of terrorism, the ongoing disputes, advancing the economic crisis and policy increasingly unable to govern the country. Even the comedy takes the direction of escape and production of series B, in which it is the erotic current witness of the disconnect with the public and with the ability to read the real that had characterized. The production slows down for a decade, and then continue with the film "A tenera follia", a film shot in '87 and directed by Nini Grassia, Italian director and promoter of a sentimental folk and exasperation cinema.
- Title UNA TENERA FOLLIA
- Release date(s) 1986
- Genre COMEDY
- Production ANTHONY FILM INTERNATIONAL
- Direction NINI GRASSIA
- Starring: Margit Evelyn Newton, Saverio Vallone, Sonia Viviani, Pippo Barone, Milvia Corona, Alex Damiani, Laura Papi, Yari Porzio, Mimmo Postiglione
Plot
A love story complicated by various events, which takes place between Ischia Porto and Ischia Ponte, S. Angelo, Lacco, Casamicciola.
In the genre of fiction, in '98 Ischia is chosen to "Commissario Raimondi" with the participation of Marco Columbro and Barbara de Rossi and directed by Paolo Costella.
- Title IL COMMISSARIO RAIMONDI
- Release date(s) 1998
- Genre DETECTIVE STORY - FICTION TV
- Running time 180 Min
- Direction PAOLO COSTELLA
- Starring: Marco Columbro, Barbara De Rossi, Antonio Campobasso, Lola Pagnani, Vincenzo Peluso, Mariano Rigillo
- Photography: Fabrizio Lucci
- Editing: Raimondo Crociani
- Music: Franz Di Cioccio, Patrick Djivas
Plot
Mr Raimondi left Milan and moved to Naples, where his family resides, which he had neglected for the job, but on his arrival he was involved in an intrigue: the kidnapping of his brother.
The film continues and in 2003, the last film shot in Ischia. The images were taken in June, the film is directed and starring Leonardo by Pieraccioni. It is entitled "Il Paradiso all’improvviso", and used as locations, a bit all over the island, seeing places not yet explored by islanders, such as, for example, an inlet located under the wood of Zaro. For the first time in his career as a director, Pieraccioni moves to the south, and the film is a great opportunity for advertising. Could be considered a result of the cine-tourism, "invented" by Rizzoli, a "mega card" of ten locations in six municipalities.
- Title IL PARADISO ALL'IMPROVVISO
- Release date(s) 2003
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 93 Min
- Production LEVANTE FILM, MEDUSA FILM
- Direction LEONARDO PIERACCIONI
- Starring: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Angie Cepeda, Alessandro Haber, Rocco Papaleo, Anna Maria Barbera
- Photography: Italo Petriccione
- Editing: Stefano Chierchiè
- Music: Gianluca Sibaldi
Plot
Lorenzo is a very single man. Every morning when he wakes up he is happy to go to the bathroom and find only a bathrobe and a toothbrush. It has a firm "Pioggia, Neve e Grandine": makes for theater, film and television special effects. His collaborator for many years is Nina, the daughter of a great tenor work with the special effects when he was thirteen. Lorenzo and Nina are called to work in Ischia, in a beautiful villa overlooking the sea. There he knows Amaranta, a beautiful Colombian girl and inside that wonderful villa he is waiting for her boyfriend and wants to recreate the atmosphere of when she met him in the mountains and it was snowing. Lorenzo and Nina prepare the snow machine. Amaranta, dressed in an elegant white dress, waits to board a boyfriend for that special dinner. But the wait goes on..
"The film shows a remarkable improvement of cleanliness and decorum in the Amoroso production, no doubt about the director Costa who, while not pursuing artistic purposes, however unnecessary in this kind of films, played with skill and sincerity a story well known , frequently, interrupted by the execution of famous Neapolitan songs”.
- Title: CITTA' CANORA
- Release date(s): 1952
- Genre: MUSICAL
- Running time: 80 Min
- Production: ROBERTO AMOROSO PER SUD FILM
- Direction: MARIO COSTA
- Starring: Paola Borboni, Leila Calabrese, Luigi De Simone, Mirko Ellis, Maria Fiore, Giovanni Grasso, Nadia Gray, Beniamino Maggio, Dante Maggio, Tina Pica, Giuseppe Porelli, Carlo Romano, Giacomo Rondinella
- Photography: Francesco Izzarelli
- Music: Gino Filippini
Plot
A beautiful Neapolitan girl, Maria, daughter of Don Salvatore, owner of a fishing fleet, flirting with Giacomo, a young sailor in the fleet, but Don Salvatore decided to marry Maria Renato, son of his dear friend, long dead, and meanwhile makes Renato his partner. When he discovers that between Maria and Giacomo has formed a bond of mutual affection, Don Salvatore does not hesitate to lay the sailor, and he walks away, at the same time, Mary, preparing to flee with Giacomo. Following a misunderstanding, Giacomo believes that Mary does not love her anymore, and the young man, who has a beautiful voice and use it, then decides to accept an offered to write and went to Milan, where he debuted successfully in a magazine. Maria, who, in turn, believed to be abandoned, is willing to marry Renato. Meanwhile, abusing the confidence of Don Salvatore, he presents one of the fishing boats of the future father in law to pursue drug trafficking, but the suspicious traffic is discovered and while Renato escapes and is suppressed by accomplices, Don Salvatore is stopped. Giacomo, who is doing a brilliant career, discovers that Maria loves her still: he quickly returns to Naples and all ends happily. Recognized the innocence of Don Salvatore: Giacomo married Maria.
Many of these films use the island as only locations. It appears, in fact, difficult to believe that an island, so evocative and fascinating, can be used as a place of horror and fear. However, its nature is transformed, showing also available as a place of horror. During the period of the film in '45, Boris Karloff watched many Ischians and told the press. "I am in Ischia to make a good movie and are oxygenated by this island so full of sun warmth. It 's really hard-working the population of Ischia. It has been a great experience to come to this island. In a break from work, I took the opportunity to met Boris Karloff, a friendly and very human man, very different from those terrifying roles had in the movies. Karloff loved the sea, seeing the crafts isle and watching the fishermen at work. He was really a gentleman".
MMany scenes in this movie were filmed along the homes of Corso Vittoria Colonna and in the pine forest of Ischia Ponte.
- Title ISLE OF THE DEAD
- Release date(s) 1945, USA
- Running time 72 Min
- Genre HORROR
- Direction MARK ROBSON
- Photography: Jack MacKenzie
- Editing: Lyle Boyer
- Music: Leigh Harline
Plot
Greece 1912. General Nikolas Pherides went with some friends on a small island of the Aegean Sea, where is the tomb of his wife, but when he discovers that the place has been tampered with. To make matters worse, an old fanatic believes that Thea, a young Greek woman, is possessed by an evil spirit. The plague broke out in the island, the inhabitants are quarantined and Thea is blamed for the disaster. The general, affected by the disease, in a moment of madness, attempts to kill the girl. Thea has to accept the help of a young journalist and escape to leave the contaminated island.
LThe first fiction set in Ischia is “Il Commissario Raimondi“ made in '98, and almost as if by a call in Ischia turned the film "The Talented Mr. Ripley", directed by Anthony Mingella. “The Talented Mr. Ripley” has intrigued and fascinated the audience to such an extent as to affect the choice of holiday in our country.
- Title THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
- Release date(s) 1999, USA
- Genre DRAMATIC - THRILLER
- Running time 150 Min
- Based on THE NOVEL BY Patricia Highsmith
- Production WILLIAM HOLBERG
- Diredction ANTHONY MINGHELLA
- Starring: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Fiorello
- Photography: John Seale
- Editing: Walter Murch
- Music: Gabriel Yared
Plot
In the 50s. In the United States, at a reception, the young Tom Ripley knows the Dicke’s father, a contemporary rich and spoiled man left for Italy without giving any news of him. The father instructs Tom to travel there and do everything to bring back his son. In Italy Tom knows Dickie, his girlfriend Marge and their carefree way of living between Ischia, Capri, the sea, excursions. Soon Tom forgets the purpose of his trip, enters little by little in the life of Dickie, he became the inseparable companion, following him in nightclubs in trips to Naples and Rome. But one day, in Sanremo, Dickie fed up with Tom, doesn’t want to see and tells him to go away. Then, on the boat, Tom strikes, kills him, takes the money and his identity. In this new role, Tom / Dickie returns to the country, then decided to move to Rome, where he rented a large apartment. Here comes Freddie, old friend of Dickie, who immediately realizes that Tom is hiding something that Tom nothing else to do than delete it. Pressed from the surveys conducted by the inspector Roverini, Tom leaves for Venice. Here there’s also the father of Dickie and Marge. The parent reads a letter in which Dickie said of wanting to commit suicide and tells Tom that he has no blame for what has happened. It is equally convinced Marge, but is not heard. Tom embarks on a ship to Greece.
A Casa Tutti Bene is the story of a large family to celebrate the Grandparents' Golden Wedding on the island where they have moved to live. A sudden sea storm stops the arrival of the ferries and skips the return expected in the evening forcing everyone to get stuck on the island and to deal with themselves, with their past, with never jealousy covered, restlessness, betrayals, fears and even sudden and unexpected lightning strikes.
- Title A CASA TUTTI BENE
- Release date 2018
- Genre DRAMATIC
- Running time 105 Min
- Production 01 DISTRIBUTION, RAI CINEMA
- Direction GABRIELE MUCCINO
- Starring: Stefano Accorsi, Carolina Crescentini, Elena Cucci, Tea Falco, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudia Gerini, Massimo Ghini, Sabrina Impacciatore, Gianfelice Imparato, Ivano Marescotti, Giulia Michelini, Sandra Milo, Giampaolo Morelli, Stefania Sandrelli, Valeria Solarino, Gianmarco Tognazzi
- Photography: Shane Hurlbut
- Editing: Claudio Di Mauro
- Music: Nicola Piovani
Plot
Pietro and Alba celebrate fifty years of love. From their marriage were born Carlo, Sara and Paolo, boarded with spouse, offspring, aunts and cousins to an island of the South. In that pleasant place, where Pietro and Alba have spent their most beautiful time, a family meets to the brink of a dramatic crisis. Ginevra, the new and unbearable wife, oppresses Carlo, separated from Elettra, , Sara, married to Diego, tries to recover a marriage adrift, Paolo, driven out of the wife and scorned by his son because of a betrayal, runs empty and ends up in bed with his cousin. And then there is Riccardo waiting for a son from Luana and begging for a (second) chance to uncle Pietro, Elettra who tries to cope with the jealousy of Geneva and Isabella, a bored wife of a husband too far away who betrays with Paolo. The heavy sea and a sudden storm prevent the departures of the ferries and force the guests to prolong their stay, cohabitation and agony. Neurotic satellites around the 'spouses' try to spend a night that does not pass and will not pass.
In the late '90s, the film takes on Ischia, taking a quantum leap with the film "The Talented Mr. Riplay" directed by Anthony Minghella, to keep up with proper commercial genres like the movie "Cient'anne “directed by Nini Grassia, which works so that it looks like a television soap opera pace, up to a melodramatic final. The critics could not help but highlight only positive note, or the beautiful scenery and the fun shape of the hawker”.
- Title CIENT'ANNE
- Release date(s) 1999
- Genre COMMEDIA
- Running time 105 Min
- Production PRODUZIONI ASSOCIATE CINEMA E TELEVISIONE S.R.L.
- Direction NINI GRASSIA
- Starring: Gigi D'Alessio, Mario Merola, Giorgio Mastrota
- Photography: Luigi Ciccarese
- Editing: Vanio Amici
- Music: Gigi D'Alessio
Plotm
Adopted son of Merola, Gigi (G. D'Alessio), singer of piano-bar in a hotel on the Amalfi coast, dreams of recording his first CD, suffers in the memory of an incident in which his girlfriend died and discovers that he has to father his employer (G. Hilton), parent also of his rival in love (G. Mastrota). Grand finale with Merola, dying on a stretcher, who sings the title song along with her godson, his true heir hold high the banner of Neapolitan songs in the world. Labored attempt to revive the scripted television in loose rhythms with daring and clumsy self-citations (from Dictionary of the movie "il Morandini 2004" ). Scenes in Ischia Ponte, in the Mandra, Lacco Ameno, Forio, Sant'Angelo.
In the 70s the trend towards disengagement becomes standard, with the deterioration of the social situation and the spread of terrorism, the ongoing disputes, advancing the economic crisis and policy increasingly unable to govern the country. Even the comedy takes the direction of escape and production of series B, in which it is the erotic current to witness the disconnect with the public and with the ability to read the real that had characterized. (Russo, 2002 p 154). Conforming to the production of the 70 in the rest of Italy, Ischia lends itself to become locations for the movie, "La Svergognata" film shot in '74, directed by Giuliano Biagetti. In '76 follows the film "La professoressa di scienze naturali " shot in Ischia in '76, directed by Michele Tarantini, who in recent years gives rise to a series of erotic-comic comedies interpreted by the sexy divas of the moment, in this case Lilli Carati.
- Title LA PROFESSORESSA DI SCIENZE NATURALI
- Release date(s) 1976
- Genre EROTIC
- Running time 90 Min
- Production DANIA FILM MEDUSA DISTRIBUZIONE
- Direction MICHELE MASSIMO TARANTINI
- Starring: Gianfranco Barra, Lilli Carati, Mario Carotenuto, Rita De Simone, Adriana Facchetti, Michele Gammino, Gastone Pescucci, Giacomo Rizzo, Alvaro Vitali
- Photography: Angelo Filippini
- Editing: Daniele Alabiso
- Music: Alessandro Alessandroni
Plot
The high school of a Sicilian town has not a science teacher, when the mature prof. Mastrilli, putting together carelessly nitric acid and distilled water in the course of an experiment, outing of action. On the advice of the pharmacist Nicola Balsamo, is requested and obtained a graduate student Stefania Marini, whose loveliness makes fresh agitation in loving both the students as their parents. But it is the chemist's son, Andrea, first to hit the defenseless heart of the teacher, however, the court accepts the rich dr. Peppino. One day, taking advantage of a boating accident, Andrea and Stefania love among the waves. Nevertheless, the teacher marries the doctor without having to give up the relationship with her student.
In the 70s the trend towards disengagement becomes standard, with the deterioration of the social situation and the spread of terrorism, the ongoing disputes, advancing the economic crisis and policy increasingly unable to govern the country. Even the comedy takes the direction of escape and production of series B, in which it is the current erotic to witness the disconnect with the public and with the ability to read the real that had characterized. Conforming to the production of the 70 in the rest of Italy, Ischia lends itself to become locations for the movie, "La Svergognata" film shot in '74, directed by Giuliano Biagetti. In '76 follows the film "La professoressa di scienze naturali" shot in Ischia in '76, directed by Michele Tarantini, who in recent years gives rise to a series of erotic comedies comic interpreted by the sexy divas of the moment, in this case Lilli Carati.
- Title LA SVERGOGNATA
- Release date(s) 1974
- Genre COMMEDIA
- Running time 90 Min
- Screenplay Giuliano Biagetti, Giorgio Mariuzzo
- Direction GIULIANO BIAGETTI
- Starring: Barbara Bouchet, Maria Pia Conte, Dante Cleri, Serena Cociani, Filippo De Gara
- Photography: Anton Giulio Borghesi
- Editing: Alberto Moriani
- Music: Berto Pisano
Plot
IMr. Nino Bernardi, industrial Milan man, reached Ischia for a holiday with his wife Clara and his teenage daughter Ornella. In the same hotel down several people, among which is Fabio Lorenzi, depressive writer in crisis already loving lady Bernardi five years before and now faithful companion of the actress Silvia. Ornella, stimulated by her friend Giusi, soon tires of the fleeting and superficial encounters with various Andrea, Adriano etc.. boys on holiday or service, and aims to Fabio that is attracted by the fresh little girl but comes from the same office with volatility in white. Only when in the resort, called by the writer, also comes Silvia, Ornella became jealous and eventually perhaps the writer who has since found a vein and confidence in their own creativity.
Also within the knowledge and sponsorship of the island through the location is also important to mention the movie "Avanti" or " Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre" made in '72 and directed by Billy Wilder, who chose Ischia for his film, tells the story of a wealthy businessman in Baltimore go to Ischia to recover the body of his father and discovers, with great surprise, that he died in the arms of his mistress, whom he met regularly for ten years during his holidays. On site there is also the daughter of the woman who has a less moralistic attitude towards the two lovers than man's. But the warmth and Mediterranean Eden appear in a disarming clarity, which turns slowly in a liberating sense, adventurous and pay existence, the only solution to defeat the holes blacks of human destiny. The film is presented as a self-mocking portrait of what Americans see the soul Mediterranean, and especially in Europe. Ischia became the location for the description of adultery "therapeutic", a place where you can relax and enjoy life. The church of Soccorso turns to the morgue where the employee is Pippo Franco, dealing with forms and stamps. It was also used the port of Ischia for the landing of a helicopter. Other sequences were shot in Sant'Angelo, Monte Vico where was taken up the entire landscape of Lacco Ameno, Ischia Ponte, the port and along the main road that leads to Forio.
- Title AVANTI
- Release date(s) 1972, USA
- Genre ROMANCE FILM
- Running time 146 Min
- Based on THE COMEDY "AVANTI" BY SAMUEL A. TAYLOR
- Production MIRISCH CORPORATION - PEA (ROMA)
- Direction BILLY WILDER
- Starring: Jack Lemmon, Juliette Mills, Pippo Franco
- Photography: Luigi Kuveiller
- Musci: Carlo Rustichelli
Plot
Wendell Ambruster junior, an industrialist of 42 years, is the island of Ischia to pick up the body of his father, Wendell Ambruster senior expert in an accident, and bring it to America where he prepares a grand funeral. During the trip to Ischia and then met Pamela Piggott, a plump London woman, came to pick up the corpse of her mother, Catherine, who was for years (without even she knows) lover of Wendell senior and perished with him. The exasperating bureaucratic delays are further complicated by the disappearance of the bodies by the family as ransom Trotta claiming compensation for accident damaged the vineyard. Solves all the hotel manager, Carlo Carlucci, man sailed and of inexhaustible resources. More blackmail weaves Bruno, the waiter who wants a visa to the U.S. in exchange for compromising photographs of the dead lovers, and then on other identical situations junior Wendell and Pamela, the two, in fact, after quarrels and fights, they repeat the same as the each of the parents. Bruno is killed by the Sicilian maid Anna that he got her pregnant. There comes a diplomat, brother of the deceased, to ... release the body, but it is to Bruno, because the two lovers dead lie down together on the island, while the living come together for your next holiday.
"Ischia operazione amore" film shot in Ischia in '66, directed by Vittorio Sala, was important for the onset of the comedians Ric and Gian. For this film was put much emphasis on the interpretation of Walter Chiari, a close friend of Rizzoli, who had made his film debut in the late '40s, while Peppino De Filippo was relegated to the background. This is the plot of stories set in Ischia with a Peppino De Filippo in the role of a manager of board. Walter Chiari is instead a famous football player and Tony Renis, plays the role of a mastermind. The scenes are set also in Lacco Ameno, where the "Regina Isabella" houses Walter Chiari. Ric and Gian seduce a girl with a handkerchief in the enchanting scenery of Sant'Angelo, the Soccorso of Forio, such as the Torre Guevara at Ischia as a background for the first phase of falling between two young people.
- Title ISCHIA, OPERAZIONE AMORE
- Release date(s) 1966
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 86 Min
- Production RIZZOLI FILM, LUIGI ROVERE PER LA CINELUXOR
- Direction VITTORIO SALA
- Starring: Hélène Chanel, Alberto Cevenini, Walter Chiari, Umberto D'Orsi, Peppino De Filippo, Ermelinda De Felice
- Photography: Aldo Giordani
- Editing: Tatiana Casini Morigi
- Music: Roberto Nicolosi
Plot
The film is made up of some of the events which run parallel and intertwine sometimes their plot. Main characters are: Capatosta Gennaro, owner of an inn whose main attraction is the special attention which they are made subject to the elderly and moneyed customers by the son of the owner, Peppiniello, who, however, against the fatherly exhortations, prefers to order to devote his time to his young wife. Then there is Enrico Tremalaterra, a football player athletically unusable now, he can sign a contract with a business woman, Flavia Petrazzi, when she realizes that she had been cheated, Tremalaterra forces to deal with commitments of eve other kind. Finally Frida, a German girl kept by a wealthy Sicilian nobleman, who finds a way to betray the protector with Mark, a young extravagant inventor.
Else isolate, repeatedly used for filming, is the village of Sant'Angelo, a lovely site by Mediterranean colors, the houses huddled together, animated streets until late at night and sent a promontory that rises in sea just a few meters from the village, as can be seen in the movie "Caccia alla volpe". And then there is the legendary Fungo, symbol of Lacco Ameno. The ancient tufa rock, called by the ancients "the rock of the mullet", due to its particular shape appeared several times in the film Cineriz, and can be counted among the island’s most famous icons worldwide.
- Title CACCIA ALLA VOLPE
- Release date(s) 1966
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 103 Min
- Based on A COMEDY BY NEIL SIMON
- Production MONTORO, CINECITTA', NANCY ENTERPRISES INC.
- Direction VITTORIO DE SICA
- Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland
- Photography: Leonida Barboni
- Editing: Russell Lloyd, Adriana Novelli
- Music: Piero Piccioni, Burt Bacharach
Plot
To Cairo was stolen a large quantity of gold and the Interpol thinks he can recover controlling the only person who may be interested in the experience and cunning way to introduce in Italy the gold bars, known as "The Fox". He, who in prison has been appointed by the organizer of the coup to transfer the gold, when he learns that his sister Gina is very attached to which is not leading a virtuous life, decides to escape and went to Rome. But Gina is simply taking part in the shooting of a film and his brother took the opportunity to seize the material recovery and organize themselves for the landing of gold. He went to Sevalio (S. Angelo d'Ischia), a small fishing village, posing as the director Fabrizi, gets the participation of the star is no longer young Tony Powell will ensure the support of the corporal who acts as a force in public country and start shooting a film comprising the chaotic scene of the landing gold in Cairo. But Interpol closing just Sevalio, so all the participants in the film end up in court and the Fox returned to prison except for rievaderne in the spring. The local newspaper Chronicles of the two gulfs (No. 7/1965) it reads: "The square of the village of Sant'Angelo is bustling in these days. It turns, in fact, most of the exterior shots of the movie "Caccia alla volpe" (the title is metaphorical) produced by Montoro Film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Just a short wlak from the sea arose, as if by magic, the church and the town hall of an imaginary country Sevalio".
“Eighteen in the sun”, Film made in '62 by Camillo Mastrocinque, shows the island with the means used by Rizzoli. The plot is simple; young people come to the island for a weekend, and take the opportunity to conquer. What better way to show the beauty of the island.
- Title EIGHTEEN IN THE SUN
- Release date(s) 1962
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 92 Min
- Production DDL
- Direction CAMILLO MASTROCINQUE
- Photography: Riccardo Pallottini, Gastone Di Giovanni
- Editing: Gisa Radicchi Levi
- Music: Ennio Morricone
Plot
Three young: Lello, Nanni, Nicola come to the island for a vacation. They join to a group already present on the site and is working tirelessly to conquer the hearts of women. Niola falls in love, thanks to the coincidence of a name identical to a French girl. Lello, to woo a beautiful German girl, attends a local young man, Vania, which gives German lessons. Nanni, to reach the inaccessible island beauty of Franca, pretends to be an escaped convict from the prison of Procida. The engagement of Nicola with the same name and brogues Lello with the beautiful German teacher crown the short vacation. Nanni will be abandoned by Franca, when this fraud will be discovered.
In this epic film Ischia offers its imposing castle as a backdrop for the battle of Anzio, but no text is cited Ischia as location, all the literature that deals with this film tends to highlight the history of production, leading to the replacement directed by Rouben Mamoulian already started in London and completed in Rome by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Probably come to the island for the filming is due to Giovanni Messina, who was then responsible for the organization of the film. He had the task of helping the directors to overcome the various obstacles, such as obtaining permits, select the extras and treat props. When was shot "Cleopatra", he was asked to find photos of the island, and he sent them to Rome, where was shooting the film, the director who wanted fascinating then come to Ischia to keep shooting. The success of the film, although huge, was not enough to cover the entire expenditure, and to no avail, the nine Academy Award nominations, and four awards (photography, set design, costumes, special effects), the Fox failed to avoid bankruptcy.
- Title CLEOPATRA
- Release date(s) 1963
- Genre Historical
- Running time 243 Min
- Based on WORKS BY: PLUTARCO, SVETONIO - APPIANO
- Production WALTER WANGER PER TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
- Direction JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
- Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
- Photography: Leon Shamroy
- Editing: Dorothy Spencer, Elmo Williams
- Music: Alex North
Plot
The famous story of the Queen of Egypt and her lovers: first of all Caesar - with whom she had a son, Caesarion - then Anthony, who for love of him break his engagement to Octavia. After the war and the defeat of Antony at Actium (September 2, 31 BC.), the queen decides to put an end to his life by poison of an asp. It won 4 Oscars: photography, set design, costumes, special effects, among primates as many changes of costume: Taylor wore 65.
NIn '60, directed by Mario Mattioli, the film "Appointment in Ischia", where Mimmo, or Domenico Modugno, is a famous singer, a widow with a daughter, Letizia, to whom will give a mother. But the girl does not accept the current girlfriend of her father, growing fond of a young man, who wants as mother. The child creates many situations, such as coming to Ischia for treatment with mud, so that the two would meet and s' fall in love. Obviously in this case the location preference are those of Lacco Ameno, with a beautiful waterfront scene of the course that connects Casamicciola to Lacco Ameno traveled by carriage from Modugno with his daughter.
- Title APPUNTAMENTO A ISCHIA
- Release date(s) 1960
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 99 Min
- Production ROMANO DANDI PER LA SERENA FILM
- Direction MARIO MATTOLI
- Starring: Domenico Modugno, Ciccio Ingrassia,
Franco Franchi, Mina, Pippo Franco - Photography: Roberto Gerardi, Marco Scarpelli
- Editing: Adriana Novelli
- Music: Gianni Ferrio
Plot
Mimmo is an acclaimed singer of modern songs, which leads around the world for his art in continuous torunées. The singer is widowed and has a daughter of nine years, Letizia, who is forced to follow his father in his wandering, unless Mimmo decides to put her in college, would recommend as Mercedes, his partner and friend of art. Letizia is introduced to Mirella Argenti, a good girl, the daughter of musicians and engaged to a conductor, Paolo and this chance encounter awakens in the child the desire to have Mirella as a mother and causes it to implement the tricks to make his dream come true, and Mercedes has moved away. The wiles of Letizia cause embarrassing situations that lead Mimmo to put the child in college, and the resume at home, to her delight, just after marrying Mirella.
Another realization of the adventure genre Ischia is the film "Morgan the Pirate" of '60, of the director Primo Zeglio, that in the context of popular cinema, is a spectacular exhibit of large plant and sufficient to cover the favorite genres of the '50s and 60s. The row repeats the images of the figure of Henry Morgan, whose exploits have already been documented in other films where this does not go away. The preferred locations in this film are the area of Punta Molino, Ischia Ponte, Lacco Ameno and the Maronti beach, perfect setting for a fight between pirates. In spite of the beautiful scenery, the film was considered a ridiculous adventure film, supervised by a Andre de Toth, who plays of accumulation: people, facts, actions, to mask the void on which it stands. Just on the basis of these considerations, it seems appropriate to recall how much they had in the movies, places, and environments of Ischia. We can assert without doubt that the main protagonist of the film is the island in its entirety.
- Title MORGAN THE PIRATE
- Release date(s) 1960
- Genre ADVENTURE FILM
- Running time 103 Min
- Based on THE NOVEL BY EMILIO SALGARI
- Production LUX FILM, ADELPHIA CINEMATOGRAFICA
- Direction ANDRE' DE TOTH, PRIMO ZEGLIO
- Photography: Tonino Delli Colli
- Editing: Maurizio Lucidi
- Music: Franco Mannino
Plot
HHenry Morgan, being in slavery, is bought by Ynes, daughter of the Governor of Panama. In love with the woman, is deported on a Spanish galleon, which seizes with the other prisoners, who recognize him as their leader. He directs the ship to the island of Tortuga, redeems Ynes, who had been taken prisoner, and resumes the sea. Morgan performs extraordinary feats, alliance with England and try to seize Panama, but the company fails. Organized a second expedition, try to approach the city by land and manages to win her over. In the Governor's palace is an immense booty, but the thought of Ynes, which he believes far, traveling to Spain, saddens him. You will find it rather live under a mountain of corpses, and swears to himself that he does not come off more from her (fromcinematografo.it). On Corriere dell’isola d’Ischia On the island of Ischia Courier (No. 17-1960) reads: "So also the filmmakers have invaded Ischia. This is not the first time this has happened since Ischia have been many movies but these are the pirate Morgan led all the features of the new cinema environment. An environment that wants to be intellectual and instead is flat and dull. And all these nice people what you can achieve? Only the useless meatballs that are certainly not honor the Italian cinema. The belly of Chelo Alonso, the muscles of Steve Reeves and his stunt, the sine of Valery Lagrange and some galleon fire form the main emotion of the film. We must hope that the natural beauty of our island saved part of the film. The trouble is that in the movie Ischia is an island in the South Seas.
In '59 in Ischia, is the film "Plein Soleil" directed by Rene Clement, a French director who entrusts the title role of Alain Delon, who at 24 years old has his first major interpretation, a character from the face of an angel and the soul of evil, which would make him the star of France, a symbol of the '60s - '70 (Canova, 2000). The film is based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, who creates a character, ambiguous and fake lives of scams, and do not hesitate to kill in order to improve his social position.
- Title PLEIN SOLEIL
- Release date(s) 1960
- Genre DRAMATIC THRILLER
- Running time 120 Min
- Based on THE NOVEL BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH of 1955
- Production TITANUS PARIS CCFC
- Direction RENE' CLEMENT
- Starring: Alain Delon - Maurice Ronet - Marie Laforet
- Photography: Henri Decaë
- Music: Nino Rota
Plot
Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Mr. Greenleaf in search of his son Philippe, to take him home: Tom in return will receive five thousand dollars. Philippe tricks Tom into thinking that he will return to the U.S. with him to please his father, but in reality it has no intention and intends to stay where he is, alongside his girlfriend Marge, who is about to marry. Mr. Greenleaf, seeing no result, he fired Tom, in desperation, kills Philippe and assume the identity, living his life as a rich playboy. But Philippe's friends begin to miss him and begin to look for it, while the tracks leading to Tom, who is forced to commit another murder to avoid being discovered.
The first film produced by Rizzoli was: "Suor Letizia" in '56, already described at length in neorealism. The following year, again directed by Mario Camerini, the production continuous with the film "Holiday in Ischia" in which several episodes intertwine against the backdrop of beach life and social life of the island, where even in the movie, Ischia, with its sun and its beauty attracts many visitors, who come from all over to enjoy the holidays. More attention on Lacco Ameno, with the luxurious "Regina Isabella" with its thermal baths, the Fungo and its enchanting sea. One way to show other parts of the island as the beach of San Montano, the Church of Soccorso, is the role of the guide, in this case of a young islander, who with his scooter shows the island with a French couple. An interesting film island, there is also the story of Paolo Stoppa who had lively quarrels with Vittorio De Sica.
- Title VACANZE A ISCHIA
- Release date(s) 1957
- Genre COMEDY
- Production RIZZOLI FILM - ROMA / FRANCINEX (PARIGI) BAVARIA FILMKUNST - MONACO
- Direction MARIO CAMERINI
- Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Myriam Bru-Paolo Stoppa, Pippino De Filippo
- Photography: Otello Martelli
- Editing: Giuliana Attenni
- Music: Alessandro Cicognini
Plot
Ischia with its sun and its natural beauty attracts visitors, coming from all over to enjoy a pleasant holiday period. There comes a lawyer who dreams of a little rest and instead spends all his time in agitated for fear of causing the death of a street urchin, tossing a coin into the sea, there is also an engineer, peaceful man, if ever there was able to appreciate the sweetness of living to which four youths make a terrible joke, creeping in the soul the suspicion that his wife is cheating, and that the child she is expecting is not his, there are these four young men, always short of money, implanting the fake baths to exploit the credulity of strangers. Brought to the police station they’re doing with a little fear, thanks to the intervention of the engineer who knew them and to whom they confess their fierce joke, restoring tranquility. One of them falls in love with a nurse seriously and will be paid. And behold, two French grooms came to Italy to rekindle the feelings that brought them together and now it is languid, they depart as soon as possible when the husband realizes that his wife is not insensitive to the attentions of a young islander. In the midst of the events do not always chaste usual, there are also some spicy note: a process for indecent exposure, in which the courts as defendants, show more morbid curiosity than concern for justice. Passes for all the holiday season, but the island continues to shine in the sun.
The German director and screenwriter Alfred Weidermann, made famous in the international arena from the movie "Canaris", directs with a good job, but not particularly inventive, some of them with two romantic comedies Romy Schneider: "Kitty" and "Scampolo", originating from the homonymous play by Dario Niccodemi, or "Sissi a Ischia" that exploits the popularity of the movie played by Schneider in "Princess Sissi". The film allows a thorough knowledge of the island as you start telling the story and show the pictures of everyday life in the country. The protagonist, remnant, working as a tour guide showing tourists the beauty of the island and just like driving enters the Aragonese Castle buy brand viagra. The director with this film allows the German population to enrich the beauty, but also the radiance that Ischia, the film conveys. Ischia rises climax of the film industry with this film, a series of images that our protagonist allows us to see with the precise purpose of the film, to seize the island in all its charm, every fact, every conflict as the viewpoint of Serrara, the Church of Soccorso in Forio, and the square with the background of the Aragonese Castle, the ubiquitous bar "Coco Gelo". Some scenes were also shot in Piazza Croce, on the beach of St. Pietro and Riva Destra.
- Title SCAMPOLO
- Release date(s) 1957
- Genre COMEDY
- Running time 95 Min
- Based on COMEDY OF DARIO NICODEMI
- Production UFA INTERNATIONAL
- Direction ALFRED WEIDENMANN
- Starring: Viktor De Kowa, Paul Hubschmid,
Romy Schneider - Photography: Bruno Mondi
Plot
(Sissi, Empress of Austria, has nothing to do, wanted to use the name by which Schneider had become famous). The film takes place entirely in Ischia and starring Scampolo, a girl who lives by the day without too many worries, until she meets the man she falls in love. He is an architect penniless chasing a distant dream, which is to win a competition for the best design of a modern neighborhood in Naples. Scampolo, in its way and will help when an unfortunate coincidence, the chest, sent to Naples, containing the project architect, will not be served by the post office, she will not hesitate and she will bring the case to the Ministry . The delivery is proving difficult, but remember Scampolo who will know the Minister, with whom he had a brilliant conversation at a party in Ischia, and then everything becomes easier. The Minister, moved by the story of Scampolo, decided to accept the cash over the period fixed for delivery and give you a very good chance for winning the competition. Finally, the project of the architect will be approved with great joy of the married couple.
In Suor Letizia, it tells the story of a nun who returns to Italy after years of missionary work in Africa and is immediately sent to deal with the sale, in Ischia, a decayed convent. The impact of the nun in the island can be summarized by the comment that says, "This is worse than in Africa, sisters". In fact, life is hard work in the fields extreme, the children steal the goats, the fishermen do not have the money to buy the nets, the island is depopulated by emigration". On the Island it is evident that there is still no sign of tourism. Sister Letizia off the vaporetto, solitary, only serves to bring the boat back to Naples or the villagers, who go to work. This film was not appreciated by many critics considered it a melodrama full of affectation.
- Title SUOR LETIZIA
- Release date(s) 1956
- Other titles IL PIU' GRANDE AMORE
- Based on AN IDEA OF ANTONIO ALTOVITI AND GIOSE RIMANELLI
- Genre PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
- Production SANDRO PALLAVICINI PER RIZZOLI FILM, PALLAVICINI
- Direction MARIO CAMERINI
- Photography: Gianni Di Venanzo
- Editing: Giuliana Attenni
- Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
PLot
Sister Letizia (Anna Magnani), a nun who has spent twenty years in the African missions and has just returned to Italy, is sent to an island in the Gulf of Naples (Ischia), where a monastery is in a precarious state. She will have to adjust in the best way all the slopes, close the convent and bring the little sisters to the church. While she devoted herself to the task entrusted to her, Sister Letizia knows a poor abandoned child, whose sad fate inspires a deep understanding and Salvatore has no father, his mother Assunta is about to leave him to follow in America Peppino, a worker who promised to marry her on condition that she give up the child. Moved by a feeling of heartfelt piety, Sister Letizia welcomes in the convent Salvatore together with other children will reopen the school, everything is renewed and reborn. The monastery rises to new life. Gradually Sister Letizia feel awake in my heart a feeling unknown, a maternal feeling, which drives her to become attached to particular Salvatore. But soon the Superior calls it, and she has to be separated from his protected, which belongs to his real mother. Sister Letizia went to Naples and convinces Peppino to make adjust his relationship with Assunta and take Salvatore. The separation from his protected is the sister painful, but the future of the child is assured.
Many of these films use the island only as a location, as in the case of the film shot in '45, just after the Second World War, "Island Monster" of 1953, directed Roberto Bianco Montero, in which the horror arises by subtraction rather than visionary power, as in the character of this film, sublimated in the collective icon stout and staggering, with his face sewn up, the monster of Frankenstein.
- Title SLAND MONSTER
- Release date(s) 1953
- Genre DETECTIVE STORY
- Running time 90 Min
- Production FORTUNATO MISIANO PER ROMANA FILM
- Direction ROBERTO BIANCHI MONTERO - FRANK FED
- Starring: Boris Karloff, Gianni Breschi, Bruna Camerini, Giuseppe Chinnici, Alberto D'Amario, Domenico De Ninno, Angelo Dessy, Jole Fiero, Carlo Duse, Clara Gamberini, Giuseppe Addobbati, Giulio Battiferri, Germana Paolieri
- Photography: Augusto Tiezzi
- Music: Carlo Innocenzi
Plot
An officer of the financial police, Lieutenant Andreani, who has a particular expertise in the fight against drug smugglers, is sent to the island of Ischia, where it is suspected that this form of smuggling has one of the most important towns. No one suspects, however, that the leader of the smugglers is Don Gaetano, the benefactor of the island, the man who founded and maintained at his own expense a hospital for sick children or sickly. The investigations started by Andreani irritate Don Gaetano, who is to induce him to desist kidnap the daughter of Lieutenant. These will not be intimidated and flows into the fight with greater commitment posing as a broker, who wants to negotiate the purchase of drugs, Andreani goes into the den of smugglers, where he finds to his surprise an old acquaintance, the singer Gloria D 'Auro. The woman, however, not the complaint and he can continue in fiction. With the help of Gloria, the child is released; meanwhile Andreani with her around the house, Don Gaetano and stop the smugglers. But the old man manages to escape with the girl, who took over after Gloria mortally wounded. Andreani chasing the offender and with the help of the Czar, the faithful shepherd, fond of the child, is able to capture it, saving her daughter.
Of great importance for a wider knowledge of the island, not only in Italy but also abroad, was the making of the film "The Crimson Pirate" released in '52, directed by Robert Siodmak, inspired by some sequences of the swashbuckling film "the Black Pirate", which it is said that back in the '20s, the silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks Sr., had asked the production house to realize in Ischia this film, but the proposal fell into nothingness. It is also noted in the film, an unexpected propensity of Siodmak have the best in the comic acrobatic couple Lancaster - Cravat "invented" by Tourneur for the film "The Legend of the archer to fire".
- Title THE CRIMSON PIRATE
- Release date(s) 1952
- Genre ADVENTURE FILM
- Running time 104 Min
- Production HAROLD HECHT/NORMA PICTURES
- Direction ROBERT SIODMAK
- Photography: Otto Heller
- Editing: Jack Harris
- Music: William Alwyn
Plot
A pirate brig, under the command of the famous Captain Vallo, catching in the Caribbean Sea a Spanish galleon with arms, ammunition and 200 soldiers under the command of Don José Gruda, sent to fight the rebels of the island Salina, led by El Libre. Vallo decided to sell weapons to the rebels, but in the meantime pretends to accept the proposals of Don José who offers him 50,000 florins to deliver El Libre. The ship arrives at the port: overnight Vallo down to earth with a man of the crew and met Consuelo, daughter of El Libre, from whom he learns that his father is in prison. He promises to get rid of it, with her back on the galleon, where wearing the clothes of Don José, while the sailors wear the uniforms of the soldiers. Taken to the envoy of the King, Vallo can release El Libre and the scientist Prudence, but identified, had to take refuge with others on the galleon. Here the pirates who hoped to sell arms, realizing that Vallo wants to give her the insurgents, mutinied. In the conflict El Libre is killed and Vallo and Prudence, chains, are lowered into a boat and adrift. However, they are saved and landed safely. Having become a rebel leader, Vallo vanquishes opponents, regaining the galleon and free the island (from cinematografo.it ). "Admirable history of one of the many adventures of the famous Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster), undefeated champion of piracy, terror of the Caribbean Sea, thief of treasures and ... hearts. Although the story takes place in the eighteenth century, we see a balloon used in battle, powerful explosives and a submarine. But, being pirates, it would be dangerous to make any objections or questions: do therefore an act of faith, and if you cannot believe everything you think one half "( Novelle FILM, N. 502/1957 ).(Novelle Film, n. 502/1957).
"The cliff of sin" of '50, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero, was a film made especially in the municipality of Forio, the unmistakable image of the Church of Soccorso. It tells the story of a woman to ruin an entire country, Ischia. (Mereghetti, 2002). The island is crucial to support the film, which, though attended by Gino Cervi, is quite labile in the plot.
- Title THE CLIFF OF SIN
- Release date(s) 1950
- Genre DRAMA FILM
- Running time 93 Min
- Production INTERNATIONAL URANIA FILM
- Direction ROBERTO BIANCHI MONTERO
- Starring: Virginia Balistrieri, Gino Cervi, Augusto Ciabatti, Silvia Fazi, Margaret Genske
- Photography: Carlo Nebiolo
- Music: Alberto De Castello
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Silvano, a man of mature age, sickly and misanthropic, addicted to alcohol, lives alone in his hut. One day reappears in the island Stella, a young woman of dissolute life, which has been the bane of Silvano. She goes to him, trying to seduce him again, but when she sees the old man only wants to hide the stash, causes a dose of medicine so strong as to cause death. Stella is so mistress of the hut and the hoard, and took to the country, manages to seduce Paul, a young fisherman. He, experiencing the charm of the sorceress, neglects his girlfriend and gets involved in shady dealings of a band of smugglers. Michele, suddenly back in the country, imposes Paul to fulfill his promise to his sister, but then surrenders himself to the seduction of Stella, which in turn becomes her lover. Involved in the smuggling, Michele is at first arrested, then released after some time. He went to the hut of Stella, surprises her with Paul, between the two men kindled a violent brawl. Stella, which seeks to foster Michele, is rejected and falls into the sea. Missing the enchantress, the two men are forced to shake hands: the island returns in peace.
The film "Ok Agostina" of 1949, directed by Luigi Zampa, seems to show the island at that time real enough. Immediately after the war, in fact, in the film, Agostina and Australia landed in Ischia, after receiving the deportation order for being prostitutes, in a landscape still ravaged by war. Life seems to start for them. Ischia is a land of work, where the port cleaning the barrels, probably due to a recovery in exports of "Forastera" typical white wine of the island, it is a poor country where it does not take much to have fun: parties are organized by country races the sack race on the beach. The piles of rubble that mark the landscape are not the only legacy of the war, there is also the sad phenomenon of abandoned: the illegitimate children born as a result of permanent employment of the crew, refused to shame by their mothers, are welcomed in the small church of Santa Maria del Soccorso and caring for them is a priest (Eduardo De Filippo) who must struggle against the insensitivity of the country and in particular of its notables. Inspiration of bad criticism levied in that movie is just the director's position, which - according to Aristarchus - it was believed in duty to take, very clumsily, the defense of the unfortunate victims of venal love against the bourgeois conviction.
- Title Ok Agostina
- Release date(s) 1949
- Genre Dramatic
- Running time 100 min
- Production CARLO PONTI PER LA LUX FILM
- Direction LUIGI ZAMPA
- Main actors: Eduardo De Filippo, Gina Lollobrigida,
Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano - Photography: Carlo Montuori
- Editing: Eraldo Da Roma
- Music: Nino Rota
Plot
Agostina is a maid, that after the war has set out to make a "Miss". Her savings sends them away to the priest of his country, why keep them to him. Left allies, Agostina goes to the country, to withdraw her money. But here is waiting for a nasty surprise. The old priest died and the new one, Don Andrea, not knowing at first in which use is intended that sum, it’s worth to create an orphanage. Now the money have been spent and Don Andrea calls for more help. When she learns the true origin of savings of Agostina, Don Andrea, sick of heart, remains nearly electrocuted. To return at least part of the money, imagine a ruse. He rings the bells and people rushed to declare that no longer has the means to provide for orphans. She has applied unsuccessfully to the mayor to allocate the money collected at the hospice to erect a monument. Now he has to close the hospice and the orphans entrusted to the population. The girls spend the night crying on the steps of the churchyard, but the mayor in the face of protests from the population sends the money to the priest, who wants to deliver Agostina. But she renounces and Don Andrea, for the various emotions, dies. Clearly identifiable various places on the island.
Member of the instance is the neorealist film "Angelo", of 1950, directed by Francesco De Robertis, who, inspired by true events, is intended as a call for justice to the resolution of one of the most difficult problems that the war has involved. It is the issue of racial difference, he had already found a place, and in the same terms in the song "tammurriata nera", certainly affect the sensitivity popular. Ischia with its natural location and with the help of the "pharmacy Mirabella" and "Caffè" of the Signorine "Fiurinte" offers settings to the events narrated in the film, also being a victim of social upheaval, related the barbarian raids occurred in the past. The film tends to be positive, but the thorny topic makes a show is not suitable for young people (Bianchi, 1950) can be considered a seemingly conventional melodrama, but who knows how to address the issue of racism with an intensity and an originality able to avoid any loophole to bring out the problem in its entirety. The double soundtrack, made of Neapolitan music and American music and jazz blouses, emphasizes the incompatibility of two opposed universes, although both marked by exclusion. (Mereghetti, 2002).
- Title ANGELO
- Release date(s) 1950
- Genere WAR FILM
- Running time 85 Min
- Production SCALERA FILM
- Direction FRANCESCO DE ROBERTIS
- Photography: Carlo Bellero
- Music: Annibale Bizzelli
Plot
During the war, a street musician, Matteo, commits a theft and was sentenced to five years. While in prison, his wife dies in childbirth. Released from prison, goes in search of the child, care of the Sisters, but the baby is a little negro with curly hair, the result of the violence, in spite of himself, his wife, during the Allied occupation. Very shaken, wounded in the most intimate feelings, Matteo would repudiate the child, but there is nothing to do in the little mulatto is legally his son. And little by little, almost without knowing it, the man approaches the child, which is so cute, so affectionate. When the child falls ill, Matteo, trembling, is surprised to pray for his salvation. Now he loves so much that he is renouncing his beloved rather than separate from Angelo. But one day he has a negro, brother of the true father of Angelo, who died in the war. He wants to take the child with him, but is willing to leave it to Matthew, when the grandson of happiness requires it. But Angelo, impressed by the way of his uncle, the melancholic songs, hear the call of the race and clings to him. With tears in his eyes, Matteo lets go.
Forerunner of the neo-realistic vein appears to be the film "Dottor Antonio" of '39, directed by Enrico Guazzoni, which deals with the 1848 uprising. The main character, Dr. Antonio, was sentenced to many years in prison, right in the Aragonese Castle, which in fact, in the past, was a place of detention. Among his imprisoned for political offenses, they may include less than 62, the most famous: Nicola Prisco (1820-1901), Michele Pironti (1814-1885) and Carlo Poerio (1803-1867), which you spent a period between 1851 and 1852, people of great talent and culture were, with the unification of Italy, also elected deputies, and gave an active contribution to the cause of National Unity and staff. (D'Ambra, 1987). The critical, however, has not been very benevolent towards the final yield of the film. Given the importance and the possibility of the film subject, might have to perform better, but the beginning is slow and the interpretation of the actors appears to be no accents. (Di Meglio, 1937).
- Title DOCTOR ANTONIO
- Release date(s) 1939
- Genre DRAMA FILM
- Running time 98 Min
- Based on THE HOMONYMOUS NOVEL BY GIOVANNI RUFFINI
- Production GUAZZONI - PIETRO MANDER
- Direction ENRICO GUAZZONI
- Photography: Massimo Terzano
- Music: Giovanni Fusco, Umberto Mancini
Plot
During the riots of '48 in Italy, a doctor has the opportunity to meet and heal a serious wound to an English lady. Between the two lovers fell in love, which is interrupted by the sudden departure of the doctor to Naples, where he takes part in the revolt. Arrested, he was sentenced to many years in prison. But the English girl manages to bribe a jailer and thereby to facilitate the escape of her boyfriend.
"The Black Corsair" is based on the novel by Emilio Salgari, in which our Pithecusa is smuggled to a Caribbean island. It's a popular movie, but made no economy, with real ships and a collision of excellent effect. The island offers, as a backdrop to epic duels, views of the sea and beautiful and terrible storms. Of this first film the director recalls the scenes "scenes shot in Ischia, a beautiful island that I have in mind for its natural beauty. The climate of Ischia regenerated me a lot. We had to know the beautiful pine forests and to observe a peaceful people to his farm work. In the film I called for a small part the comic Polidor (...) ". In the film, it was important to the long sequence in which Ciro Verratti, Lord of Ventimiglia, riding arena to the enchanting Maronti beach, for the first time presented to an audience of potential new tourists great islanders.
- Title THE BLACK CORSAIR
- Release date(s) 1938
- Genre ADVENTURE FILM
- Running time 125 Min
- Based on THE HOMONYMOUS NOVEL BY EMILIO SALGARI
- Production GIORGIO GENESI PER ARTISTI ASSOCIATI
- Direction AMLETO PALERMI
- Photography: Alberto Spagnoli
- Editing: Alberto Gallitti
- Music: Maurizio De Angelis, Guido De Angelis
Plot
The Ventimiglia brothers - the Black Corsair and the Red Corsair - sail the seas of the West Indies against the governor of Maracaibo. Killed by the Governor, the Red, the Black Corsair decides to settle definitively the tragic game assaulting Maracaibo. While sailing, he captures a Spanish galleon on board of which is, under another name, the governor's daughter. The Corsair is taken by the graces of the girl, but when he discovers his identity leaves her at sea in a lifeboat. The girl is saved and brought back to Maracaibo, where she learns, by the Governor, only to be his adopted daughter. So the Corsaro can marry her when, after a fierce battle, he take Maracaibo and kills the Governor. In a chronicle vintage it reads, "Islanders and foreigners have had a great surprise. In the port of Ischia were firmly moored two majestic ancient ships artistically decorated. A member of the Spanish fleet in 1600, the other belonging to a band of pirates. One hundred shady figures of pirates, after taking possession of the premises of the Office of the Stranger and establish the headquarters, turned boldly to the country. Whites, blacks, Japanese, tanned by the sea, restless eyes, face horribly scarred, armed to the teeth with rifles, pistols, swords, daggers, axes and hammers. Pushing guns and mortars, carried boxes and appliances. Islanders and tourists marveled at what was happening, almost been related the incident with the piratical exploits of past centuries. After a few hours of loss, the calm has returned to Port of Ischia. The pirates came just to make a great Italian film, The Black Corsair».
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