Henry Silva — Actor (31)
Cry of a Prostitute (1974) [Movie] Douban
Quelli che contano
director: Adelchi Bianchi / Andrea Bianchi actor: Henry Silva / Barbara Bouchet
other title: 杀手龙虎斗 / Quelli che contano
Leave it to Italian sleazemeister Andreas Bianchi (here co-directing with his brother)to take a brutally violent and borderline misogynist genre like the Italian "polizieschi" and actually up the ante considerably. This movie begins with drug dealers trying to smuggle drugs into Italy sewed up in the body of a dead child(!), and it only gets more gratuitously violent from there. A brutal gang war is going between a traditional Italian mafia family and an Americanized godfather who has been deported back to Italy. Injected into this conflict is another Italian-American gangster, the protagonist (Henry Silva), and he begins to play the two rivals off against each other in the style of "A Fistful of Dollars" or "Yojimbo".
Silva's character might seem like the good guy, or at least the kind of anti-hero Clint Eastwood played in "Fistful" and other Westerns (and later in "Dirty Harry" which was a big influence on the Italian polizieschi). But the Silva character himself is quite psychotic when it comes to women, specifically the masochistic prostitute/mistress of the American gangster (played by Barbara Bouchet). The first time they meet he violently sodomizes her. And when she comes back for more he beats her with a belt. Now I have to admit the description I read somewhere of a naked Bouchet being whipped by a belt did not exactly dissuade me from seeing this, but it's not an accurate one. She is not naked (at least in that scene) and he literally beats her to a bloody pulp. Even her boyfriend, who otherwise is content to throw the promiscuous girl at his erstwhile partner, is horrified by the brutal beating and vows revenge.
This scene squanders any goodwill toward Silva's character (which may have been the intention, I don't know), but also toward the film itself--it's pretty hard to take even for someone like me accustomed to the casual misogyny of the genre. It certainly doesn't help that the actress is Barbara Bouchet, who along with Edwige Fenech and Rosalba Neri, was (and still is) one of the most popular European exploitation actresses of the era (although this probably would have been only marginally more palatable if it had been some anonymous Euro-bimbo). To its credit this movie at least can't be accused of glorifying any of its gangster characters like some other "polizieschi" tended to do. Still it might be a little bit too much for many viewers.
Cy-Warrior (1989) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cyborg, il guerriero d'acciaio
director: Giannetto De Rossi actor: Frank Zagarino / 亨利·席尔瓦
other title: 钢铁战士 / Cyborg, il guerriero d'acciaio
An accident causes the activation of the top-secret Cyber Warrior or 'Cyw' before his programming has been completed. Concerned that the Cyw may fall into the hands of enemies, prove unable to control or simply receive unwanted attention from the public or foreign powers, the military dispatches a crack squad led by Colonel Hammer to bring back the Cyw one way or another. (from Giallo Fever blog)
Manhunt (1972) [Movie] Douban
La mala ordina
director: 费尔南多·迪·莱沃 actor: 马里奥·阿多夫 / 亨利·席尔瓦
other title: 追捕 / La mala ordina
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft. Carnali is pursued through Milan by a pair of merciless American hit men (played by Henry Silva and Woody Strode) and referenced by Quentin Tarantino in PULP FICTION, whom mistakenly believe that he has stolen a drug shipment. Following the murder of his wife, the hunted becomes the hunter as Carnali takes his revenge on his boss, the hit men and anyone else who stand in his way.
Trapped (1982) [Movie] Douban
director: 威廉·弗吕特 actor: 亨利·席尔瓦 / 尼古拉斯·坎贝尔
A group of college students come across a redneck in the wilderness chasing his wife's lover. The students eventually become the objects of the redneck's crazed vengeance.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
director: Daniel Haller actor: 吉尔·杰拉德 / 帕梅拉·亨斯利
other title: 二十五世纪宇宙战争 / 巴克·罗杰斯在25世纪
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate.
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"The Better Bargain (1956) [Movie] Douban
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"The Better Bargain
other title: 更好的交易
Mobster Louis "The King" Koster believes that his wife and sole heir is unfaithful. He hires a hit man to kill her for twenty thousand dollars. The hit-man agrees, but he then shoots Koster dead. The hit-man was Marian's lover. Since she will inherit everything, the hit-man decided to go with the better bargain.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [Movie] Eggplant.place TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Manchurian Candidate
7.1 (36 ratings) director: 约翰·弗兰克海默 actor: 弗兰克·辛纳特拉 / 劳伦斯·哈维
other title: 满洲候选人 / 谍影迷魂
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.