The Transporter (1950 film)
| The Transporter | |
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| Directed by | Giorgio Simonelli |
| Written by | Pietro Garinei Dino Maiuri Mario Amendola Ruggero Maccari Vittorio Metz |
| Produced by | Raffaele Colamonici |
| Starring | Peppino De Filippo Silvana Pampanini Lída Baarová Aroldo Tieri |
| Cinematography | Sergio Pesce |
| Edited by | Giuseppe Vari |
| Music by | Gino Filippini |
Production company | C.M. Produzione Film |
| Distributed by | Regionale |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Transporter (Italian: La bisarca) is a 1950 Italian comedy science fiction film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Lída Baarová and Aroldo Tieri.[1] It is based on a radio program with the same name.[2][3]
It was shot at the in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. It earned 182 and a half million lira at the Italian box office.[4]
Synopsis[]
A barber is engaged to a manicurist working in the shop, but he grows jealous and picks a quarrel with one of the customers. Struck on the head he crashes into a radio playing a serial programme. Knocked unconscious he begins to have bizarre dreams about a deluge and a car transporter which functions as a Noah's Ark.
Cast[]
- Peppino De Filippo as Toni La Motta
- Lída Baarová as Greta
- Clelia Matania as Dolores Garcia
- Silvana Pampanini as Mirella
- Aroldo Tieri as Alberto
- Carlo Campanini as Salvador Garcia
- Enrico Viarisio as Georges Durand
- Kay Medford as Anna Paperiska
- Maria Donati as Georges Durand's Wife
- Riccardo Billi as Noè
- Franco Coop as Otto Krüger
- Paul Muller as Complice di Anna Paperiska
- Galeazzo Benti as Cliente galante
- Tino Buazzelli as Dimitri
- Arturo Bragaglia as Mayor
- Virgilio Riento as Capo della banda di Arcachon
- Vittorio Sanipoli as Johnny
- Nietta Zocchi as Cliente di La Motta
- Bruno Corelli
- Mario Siletti
- Giulio Donnini
- Franco Pesce
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
- Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.
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