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In the decade before he won international recognition as one of the masters of Italian neo-realism, Vittorio De Sica cut his directorial teeth making modest crowd-pleasers such as this. De Sica was not only a great director but was also a talented actor and plays the lead male role in this film. Maddalena, zero in condotta may not bear comparison with the director’s subsequent masterworks...
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Beat the Devil is a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek yet totally bizarre concoction of screwball comedy and film noir adventure thriller, which manages to be irresistibly funny in spite of a plot that is childishly absurd and at times unfathomable. Director John Huston intended it to be a spoof of his earlier noir films, particularly The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre...
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There is some irony in the fact that René Clément’s only comic film deals with a subject that would appear to be hard to find humour in, namely the origins of Fascism in Italy of the early 1920s. Clément is following in the footsteps of the great Italian filmmakers who, from the 1940s, have endeavoured to find fun in some very dark subjects...
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Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress are on top form in this bizarre vision of the future, a film which has become a cult science-fiction classic and which is a fine example of 1960s pop cinema. Although the film has dated somewhat, it still retains its anarchic fun, and much of what it portrays has a disturbing familiarity about it...
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