Giuseppe Castellano — Actor (13)

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Heroes Without Glory (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I giardini del diavolo
director: Alfredo Rizzo actor: Jeff Cameron / Isarco Ravaioli
other title: Himmelfahrtskommando in die Hölle / Les jardins du diable
Major Briggs, one stiff upper-lipped Brit, receives a hand-to-head treatment in a North African bar. Impressed, he recruits the most skilled American specialists to help him blow up Rommel's most treasured ammo depot. Perilous desert journey awaits them, especially given an inevitable rendezvous with one immoral priest, a German nurse right beside him.

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Gun Shy Piluk (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Giurò... e li uccise ad uno ad uno
director: Guido Celano actor: Edmund Purdom / Peter Holden
other title: Pilluks nimmt Maß / Le Justicier du Sud
A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to pleased. The father, Mr. Piluk, is the local undertaker and also plays a mean violin when he is in a bad mood.

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Special Killers (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
La ragazza di via Condotti
other title: Das Mädchen aus der Via Condotti / Le Crime de la Via Condotti
Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim. Sandro and Tiffany are looking for the woman on the photo, Laura. They finds her in a Night Club in Rome...

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Overrun! (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I 7 di Marsa Matruh
other title: 7 vor Marsa Matruh / Les 7 de Marsa Matruh
When the German Afrika Korps smashes through the allied lines in North Africa during WWII, a group of British soldiers are determined to get back to their own lines. Picking up more Allied survivors along the way, their journey is fraught with danger and Germans at every turn.

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Hell in Normandy (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili
other title: Tête de pont pour 8 implacables / Brigada suicida
The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.

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The Battle of El Alamein (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
La battaglia di El Alamein
director: Giorgio Ferroni actor: 弗雷德里克·斯坦福德 / Enrico Maria Salerno
other title: Königstiger vor El Alamein / La Bataille d'El Alamein
June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!

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We Want the Colonels (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vogliamo i colonnelli
other title: 우리는 대령을 원한다 / Nous voulons les colonels
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

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Syndicate Sadists (1975)
Il giustiziere sfida la città
director: 翁贝托·伦齐 actor: 托马斯·米连 / 约瑟夫·科顿
other title: 胆包天 / Il giustiziere sfida la città
Umberto Lenzi is undoubtedly the king of Italian crime movies, but unfortunately; Syndicate Sadists is not the best examples of his work in this genre. Lenzi's crime flicks tend to be a cut above the rest because he makes films based on stories with a point, and they don't lack direction; but this film feels a bit too wayward to fully fit with the rest of his stuff. The film takes obvious influence from Sergio Leone's landmark western 'A Fistful of Dollars' (which in turn, took influence from Akira Kurosawa's landmark samurai flick Yojimbo), in that it features two warring families and a strong character at the centre. The crime that Lenzi focuses on is kidnapping, and we centre on a character called 'Rambo'. Rambo is dragged into the war between the two families after his brother is killed because of it. Rambo uses his brains and brawn to pit the two families against one another, in the hope of gaining revenge for his brother's death, rescuing a young boy that they've kidnapped, and ultimately letting the two sides destroy one another.
The film's biggest asset is undoubtedly Tomas Milian. Milian was put to great use by Lenzi in almost all of his crime thrillers. The range of characters he has played for Lenzi is immense, and this one is easily one of the coolest. The character is called Rambo, which immediately sprang to mind the popular Sylvester Stallone character - but for once, the Italians actually haven't stolen this name as Syndicate Sadists was released first! As usual, the film is wickedly entertaining, as we get to watch Milian get himself involved in the usual array of car chases, shootouts and brawls. Lenzi has got him riding a motorbike this time round, and every scene featuring it and Milian is a real standout! However, the film often feels like it doesn't really have anywhere to go, and this means that the running time is stretched out more than it should be. Compared to the crime films of other Italian directors, Syndicate Sadists is more than above average; but in relation to Lenzi crime flicks such as Almost Human and The Cynic, The Rat and The Fist - it doesn't stand tall as one of Lenzi's best. Still, if you're looking for ninety minutes of testosterone fuelled mayhem - Syndicate Sadists will suffice!

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Manhunt (1972) IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place
La mala ordina
director: 费尔南多·迪·莱沃 actor: 马里奥·阿多夫 / Henry Silva
other title: 追捕 / La mala ordina
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft. Carnali is pursued through Milan by a pair of merciless American hit men (played by Henry Silva and Woody Strode) and referenced by Quentin Tarantino in PULP FICTION, whom mistakenly believe that he has stolen a drug shipment. Following the murder of his wife, the hunted becomes the hunter as Carnali takes his revenge on his boss, the hit men and anyone else who stand in his way.