Doris Duranti Movies
At the peak of her popularity during the 1930s, Italian actress Doris Duranti made over 50 films. She made her film debut in Sentinelle di Bronzo (1936) and made her final film, La Divina Creatura/The Divine Creature, in 1975. Upon her retirement, Duranti emigrated to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she remained for the rest of her life. In 1991, her life was dramatized in an Italian made-for-television feature. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1976
A beautiful woman (Laura Antonelli) is engaged to one man, but has an affair with both a young nobleman (Terence Stamp) and later his cousin (Marcello Mastroianni). This Italian production, also known as Divina Creatura, appears in both subtitled and dubbed versions. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Laura Antonelli, Terence Stamp, (more)
- 1953
This Italian crime melodrama may remind some viewers of the methodical American TV series Dragnet. In trailing a gang of counterfeiters, the authorities follow the trail of clues to a small town. Here the creation of "funny money" is the principal industry --and the job is made easier because the counterfeiters have been able to get their hands on the same type of paper used for legal tender. Police inspector Moroni (Fosco Giachetti) continues to dog the criminals' trail to Naples, where the film comes to a rousing conclusion. A few arbitrarily inserted dance sequences involving a sexy young girl were added to hype the film's box-office appeal. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fosco Giachetti, Doris Duranti, (more)
- 1947
The King's Jester is a non-musical Italian film version of the tragic opera Rigoletto. While we hear no vocal renditions of "Caro Nome" and "La Donna e Mobile", those songs, along with the rest of Verdi's score, can be heard as incidental music. French character actor Michel Simon stars as the hunchbacked jester Rigoletto, whose thirst for revenge motivates the story. When Rigoletto's daughter Gilda (Maria Mecarder) is seduced by the Count, the jester plots to set up the nobleman to be killed--but it is the long-suffering Gilda who ends up the victim of Rigoletto's machinations. Exceptionally well photographed by Ubaldo Arata, The King's Jester was a success in both Italy and the US, where it was sometimes run under its original title Rigoletto. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, (more)
- 1937
The propagandistic nature of this Italian actioner is implicit in its English-language title, Sentinels of Bronze. The story takes place throughout Italy's colonies in Africa, Somaliland and Mogadiscio, as courageous soldiers defend the borders from scurrilous invaders. In the film's most exciting sequence, a group of Italian soldiers protect the nomad Ogaden tribe from being overwhelmed by a fierce battalion of Amharas. It is suggested herein that the Italian presence in its colonies is vital to safeguard world peace. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fosco Giachetti, Giovanni Grasso, Jr., (more)
