The Opium Den
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Directed by | Raffaello Matarazzo |
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Produced by | Luciano Doria |
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Music by | Ezio Carabella |
Production company | Metropa Film |
Distributed by | Indipendenti Regionali |
Release date | 5 September 1947 |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Opium Den (Italian: Fumeria d'oppio) is a 1947 Italian crime film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring , Mariella Lotti, and Emilio Cigoli. It was an unsuccessful attempt to revive the Za La Mort character, who had been a popular figure during the silent era.[1] Ghione jr. was the son of the actor Emilio Ghione who had originally played the role.
Cast[]
- as Za-la-Mort
- Mariella Lotti as Lina Vidonis, la sorella di Corrado
- Emilio Cigoli as De Rossi, il "Maestro"
- Paolo Stoppa as l'amico di Za-la-Mort
- Armando Francioli as Corrado Vidonis
- Umberto Spadaro as il "Ragno", un complice del "Maestro"
- Arnoldo Foà as altro complice del "Maestro"
- Fedele Gentile as Piero
- Enrico Glori as il commissario
- Checco Durante as Antonio, il finto cieco
- as Giacomo, l'assassino
- Erminio Spalla as il fabbroferraio
- Domenico Serra as il brigadiere
- as la padrona dell'osteria
- as l'infermiera nella villa
- as Irene
- as Lidia
- Eugenio Duse as l'uomo delirante
- Aristide Garbini as il custode della villa del "Maestro"
- Roberto Mauri as un drogato dall'oppio
- Ciro Berardi as altro membro della banda di ladri
References[]
- ^ Moliterno p.208
Bibliography[]
- Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links[]
Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1940s Italian film stubs
- 1947 films
- Italian films
- Italian crime films
- 1947 crime films
- Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
- Italian black-and-white films
- Works about opium