Paolo Stoppa — Actor (12)
Sunday Heroes (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gli eroi della domenica
director: Mario Camerini actor: Raf Vallone / Cosetta Greco
other title: Gli eroi della domenica / Los héroes del domingo
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
Holiday Island (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vacanze a Ischia
other title: Ferien auf der Sonneninsel / 假日岛
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
The Adventures of Gerard (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Adventures of Gerard
other title: Die Gräfin und ihr Oberst / Les Aventures du brigadier Gérard
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
The Payoff (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
La mazzetta
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Nino Manfredi / Paolo Stoppa
other title: El abogado de paja / 回报
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
The Crown of Iron (1942) [Movie] Douban
La corona di ferro
director: 阿历山德罗·布拉塞蒂 actor: Elisa Cegani / Luisa Ferida
other title: 钢盔 / La corona di ferro
A deadly tournament for a princess' hand, a mystic "golden deer," babies switched at birth, a raised-by-lions quasi-Tarzan; everything but the proverbial kitchen sink was thrown into this extravagant fantasy adventure. Loin-clothed foundling Arminio (Massimo Girotti) leaves the jungle he grew up in upon reaching adulthood, unknowingly commencing the fulfillment of a prophecy that will have him regain the royal throne that is his birthright. Reviving the invincible muscleman hero of popular Italian silent films, THE IRON CROWN also anticipated the "sword and sandal" craze originating from that country in the 1950s, more directly triggered by two international hits: Alessandro Blasetti's own 1949 FABIOLA (released in 1949) and, not quite a decade later, HERCULES with American bodybuilder Steve Reeves. THE IRON CROWN won the "Mussolini Cup" for Best Italian Film at the Venice Festival but wasn't released in the U.S. until years after the end of World War II. Though little-remembered today (compared to some of the films it partly inspired), it survives as a vigorous if goofy gem of all-stops-out escapism. Here, it is presented it in its original language with English subtitles, minus the clumsy dubbing of poorly re-edited versions that were seen for decades outside Italy - Dennis Harvey