The film consists of four sex comedies – each are approximately thirty minutes in length – from four different countries.

1 – An Englishman’s Home.
A coarse, sex-obsessed chauffeur named Harry (Roger Moore) takes advantage when the real lord of the manor is away on a weekend business trip by presenting himself as his lordship. He picks up Donna (Priscilla Barnes), a beautiful air hostess from America, and takes her to the castle for a passionate weekend, but the ruse is jeopardised when one of the real lord’s lady friends unexpectedly comes to visit.

2 – The French Method.
Francois Querole (Lino Ventura), a French businessman, is trying to secure a high-profile deal with American correspondent Henry Morrison (Robert Webber). However, Morrison is a sexist oaf who uses his weekend business trips as a chance to wine and dine various sexy continental women. He has his eye on Francois’s secretary, but she isn’t prepared to surrender herself to his advances.

3 – Skippy.
Skippy (Gene Wilder), a patient at a Los Angeles mental institute, is given a weekend pass as part of his re-integration into society. He spends the weekend with Laurie (Kathleen Quinlan), a young and attractive woman he met at a nightclub, and learns how to enjoy sex and romance once more.

4 – Armando’s Notebook.
Armando (Ugo Tognazzi) is left home alone for the weekend when his wife has pressing matters to deal with elsewhere. Whilst tidying up a spare room, he finds a notebook containing the phone numbers of all his ex-girlfriends, but upon calling them and meeting up with them, each encounter proves to be more disastrous than the last.

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Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Although he escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseille and exacts his revenge on the informant, Philippe must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis.

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A murky, downbeat spy thriller written by José Giovanni and starring Lino Ventura. A French spy in Vienna is suspected of being a double agent, and a colleague of his is sent over to investigate. When the former man is kidnapped by the Russians, his complex network of contacts has to be unravelled in order to trace an important microfilm. The two final ironic twists sort of cancel each other out, but a British director and Michael Caine could have done wonders with this script. Deray’s dry, anonymous matter-of-factness would be more suited to the parable of Un papillon sur l’épaule that he made with Ventura about a decade later.

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Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the “Dragoon”, Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the “Dragoon” is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.

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La ragazza in vetrina was supposed to be a turning point in Emmer’s cinema but it went on to become a cursed film. In accordance with the evolution of Italian cinema, the director chose a story by Rodolfo Sonego which combines a tough theme, Italian migrants working in Dutch and Belgian mines (the tragedy in Marcinelle, near Charleroi, which left 262 dead, half of which were Italian, took place only four years earlier), with a raunchy one, about the red light district in Amsterdam. It combines his love of wandering and the sketch with a harsh new gaze, bolstered by the black-and-white cinematography of Otello Martelli, fresh from La dolce vita. The first half-hour of the film depicts the difficult lives of the miners; then it concentrates on two characters, one timid, the other self-confident, but both lonely and unhappy, as they meet two prostitutes. The unity of time and the idea of the voyage involving impossible encounters (Domenica d’agosto, Parigi è sempre Parigi) now takes on a documentary flavour and a deep bitterness. However, the film was blocked by the Italian censor, who held it up for months before finally issuing a 16 rating, after eliminating one scene considered too raunchy. Nevertheless, many felt that the censor’s real target was actually the description of the working conditions faced by Italian emigrants. Embittered by the experience, Emmer dedicated himself to Tv advertising until 1990. The full-length Italian version was only restored forty years after its release.

Emiliano Morreale

Given that there were no hotels in the region [of Marcinelle], I slept on a camp bed, a guest in a miners’ hut. One day, a handsome young man from the province of Padova, a sort of young Vincenzoni, arrived at the hut and began telling me about the girls in the windows in Amsterdam. He was going out with one of these prostitutes, who had Sundays off. He would go to collect her on Saturday evening and they would spend the weekend going around the little hotels along the canals that fed into the ocean, celebrating with caviar and champagne.

Naturally I asked him how on earth he had so much money and he told me that there were certain mine shafts that, statistically, were prone to explode every ten-twelve years […] and the teams that accepted to work in them were paid as much as five times the usual rate. So, every Saturday this Italian minor, who didn’t have a wife in Padova to whom he could send a money order, found himself with all this money to spend with his woman in the window.

Following this meeting, I naturally decided to base the film entirely around this character. I drew up a story outline about twenty-five pages in length, which Pasolini came across in the producer’s office. Fascinated by the idea of the contrast between these Mediterranean lads and these porcelain dolls all made up under the lights of the shop windows, he called me. He wanted at all costs to write the screenplay, and that is what he did. “It’s beautiful. I don’t care if they don’t pay us anything for it.”

Rodolfo Sonego in Il cervello di Alberto Sordi. Rodolfo Sonego e il suo cinema, edited by Tatti Sanguineti, Adelphi, Milano 2015

This film brought me back to arthouse productions, which I had always preferred. It shows the hardship of immigrants of all origins working the mines, the slavish existence of girls for hire displayed like consumer goods, and the improbable dream of a young miner who wants to save a girl from the strange double life she admits to leading. The locations are stunning: a shoreline, a tiny house, a landscape that seems larger than life in the eye of Martelli’s camera. The performances were perfect: Lino Ventura, who shows with this part, at last, his humanity; Magali Noël, sparkling with life and wit; Bernard Fresson, astonishingly right for a first-time part. My own character’s inner violence allowed me to show an equivocal and unsettling aspect of my being that had been ignored and ill-used for years.

Marina Vlady, 24 images/seconde, Fayard, Paris 2005

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The post Luciano Emmer – La ragazza in vetrina AKA Woman in the Window (1961) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives.

	
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International superstars Alain Delon (Le Samouraï), Jean Gabin (Touchez Pas au Grisbi) and Lino Ventura (Le Deuxième Souffle) star in this action-packed thriller that delivers white-knuckle suspense from its exciting opening chase to its thrilling conclusion. Aging Sicilian mobster Vittorio Manalese (Gabin) springs master thief and hit man Roger Sartet (Delon) from prison so he can help him pull off the most ambitious heist of his illustrious career, which includes hijacking a New York–bound plane and transporting 50 million dollars in jewels. But after the audacious crime, Sartet betrays the crime boss and the two partners in crime become engaged in a tense game of cat-and-mouse and a no-holds-barred battle of wit and bravado. Wonderfully directed by Henri Verneuil (Any Number Can Win), who also co-wrote the screenplay with José Giovanni (Classe Tous Risques) and Pierre Pelegri (The Last Adventure), based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton (Rififi, Bob le Flambeur). Two of the film’s other best features are the stunning cinematography by Henri Decaë (Le Cercle Rouge) and original musical score by the legendary Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

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The post Henri Verneuil – Le clan des siciliens AKA The Sicilian Clan (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.