Lisa Gastoni

  • Lance Comfort – Man from Tangier (1957)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaLance ComfortUnited Kingdom

    International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates. International crook Voss sends pretty Michele after him…Read More »

  • Carlo Lizzani – Mussolini ultimo atto AKA The Last Days of Mussolini (1974)

    Carlo Lizzani1971-1980DramaItalyWar

    In 1945, Benito Mussolini goes to Milan to talk with Archbishop Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster to request his help in escaping from Italy. The Republic of Salò, the last bastion of fascism, is decaying, and the Americans, along with the partisans are about to win control of Milan. Mussolini flees, pursued by his lover Claretta Petacci, and manages to get to the northern village of Dongo. There he clashes with the Germans, who order him to disguise himself as an officer of Germany rather than be captured by the partisans. Mussolini accepts without objection, always hoping for a revolt of his loyal fascists, but they are in jeopardy. When Mussolini is recognised, Walter Audisio, the leader of the partisans, initially wants to hand him over to the Americans, so that Mussolini undergoes due process. But the war crimes of the Duce are too great, so Audisio makes the decision to shoot him in front of the Villa Belmonte in the village of Giulino, along with his female companion.Read More »

  • Derek N. Twist – Rx for Murder (1958)

    1951-1960CrimeDerek N. TwistMysteryUnited Kingdom

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    In “Rx for Murder” and “Rx Murder” in the USA (and not “RX” in either country), American doctor Jethro Jones comes into a quiet English seaside resort to investigate the activities of its leading medical doctor, Henry Dysert. He learns from Miss Bettyhill, the town-gossip, and others that ‘the good doctor’ might not be all that good, since each of his three wives (only one at a time), Louise, Charlotte and Stella, had mysterious and tragic deaths. The non-gossiping townsmen had regarded the three deaths, each of which left Doctor Dysert in better financial shape, as unfortunate personal tragedies. Jason has only a short time to prove that Dysert was a multiple wife-killer, since Kitty Mortlock appears to be the next designated victim, and Jason has fallen in love with her himself.Read More »

  • Ferzan Ozpetek – Cuore Sacro AKA Sacred Heart (2005)

    Drama2001-2010Ferzan ÖzpetekItalyTurkey

    Written by Boyd van Hoeij
    Thursday, 20 April 2006

    Nothing less than a double suicide from a dazzling height initiates the fifth and by far best film of Italo-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek. With an equally dazzling central performance by another foreigner settled in Italy, Slovakian actress Barbora Bobulova, Cuore sacro (Sacred Heart) could very well win Ozpetek new fans at home and abroad as he forsakes his overly sentimental style for something both more subtle and more resonant.Read More »

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