Le pillole di Ercole

Le pillole di Ercole
Le pillole di Ercole
	Film poster
Directed by	Luciano Salce
Written by	Luciano Salce ; Maurice Hennequin (play Les Dragées d'Hercule) ; Paul Bilhaud (play Les Dragées d'Hercule)
Produced by	Dino De Laurentiis
Starring	Nino Manfredi
Cinematography	Erico Menczer
Edited by	Roberto Cinquini
Release date	1960;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Le pillole di Ercole is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.^[1]

Cast[]

Nino Manfredi as Dottor Pasqui
Sylva Koscina as Silvia, Pasqui's wife
Jeanne Valérie as Odette
Vittorio De Sica as Piero Cuocolo
Francis Blanche
Gianni Bonagura
Mitchell Kowal
Ignazio Leone
Oreste Lionello as Gino
(as Lina Minora)
Andreina Pagnani as Giovanna

Censorship[]

When Le pillole di Ercole was first released in Italy in 1960 the Committee for the Theatrical Review of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities rated it as VM16: not suitable for children under 16. In addition, the committee imposed the modification of the following scenes: 1) the scene in which Manfredi and Koscina hug each other on the bed will be shortened; 2) the scene in which Manfredi makes a house call to Valerie (reel 4); 3) the lines in which De Sica says "...I know, when I am with a woman..." until "...a hay barn" must be deleted.^[2] Document N° 32710 signed on 3 September 1960 ^[2] by Minister .

References[]

^ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
^ ^a ^b Italia Taglia Database of the documents produced by the Committee for the Theatrical Review of The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, from 1944 to 2000.

External links[]

Le pillole di Ercole at IMDb

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[venezia67-1] "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2010.

[Italia_Taglia-2] Italia Taglia Database of the documents produced by the Committee for the Theatrical Review of The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, from 1944 to 2000.

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