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Ciro's (later known as Ciro's Le Disc) was a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California owned by William Wilkerson. [1] Opened in 1940, Ciro's became a popular nightspot for celebrities. The nightclub closed in 1960 and was reopened as a rock club in 1965. After a few name changes, it eventually became The Comedy Store in 1972.
The Comedy Store was opened in April 1972 by comedians Sammy Shore (1927–2019), and Rudy De Luca.The building was formerly the home of Club Seville (1935), [1] later, Ciro's (1940–1957), a popular Hollywood nightclub owned by William Wilkerson, and later Ciro's Le Disc, [1] a rock and roll venue, [2] where the Byrds were discovered in 1964.
Throughout the film are flashbacks to Ciro's early life in Naples. Ciro had been rescued as a baby from the 1980 Naples earthquake in which his family had been killed. As a child he was sent to an orphanage, falling under the influence of Bruno, a small time criminal who controlled a street gang of child thieves, and collaborated with Neapolitan gangster and smuggler "Blackbird" ('"o Merlo").
Romana Film was an Italian film production company. [1] Founded in 1946 by the Sicilian Fortunato Misiano, the company was based in Rome.It made films in a variety of popular genres such as Swashbucklers, Peplum and Eurospy films, turning out roughly a hundred films before the company ceased production in the late 1960s.
The cast include cameos of Italian celebrities playing themselves, most notably Ramona Badescu, Rino Barillari, Aldo Biscardi, Nathalie Caldonazzo, Elenoire Casalegno, Martina Colombari, Carlo Conti, Carmen Di Pietro, Natalia Estrada, Anna Falchi, Emilio Fede, Tiziana Ferrario, Gabriel Garko, Eva Grimaldi, Claudio Lippi, Valeria Mazza, Maurizio Mosca, Alessandro Nesta, Brigitte Nielsen, Alba ...
In 1989 Cappellari realized his first full-length film Amor América a documentary and two years later in 1991 he realized his first feature film Hijo del Río. After this period he continued writing and directing several films such as Sin Querer –Time of the Flamingos (1997) and the documentary about the famous South African pianist Abdullah ...
In 2010, D'Amore was cast, again alongside Toni Servillo, in the film A Quiet Life, and also in Love is All You Need (2011) and Perez. (2011). In 2014, he was cast as Ciro Di Marzio in the television crime drama Gomorrah. In 2019, he directed The Immortal, both a prequel and a sequel to the events after the third season of the TV series ...
Ciro Ippolito (born Naples, Italy, 27 January 1947) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. [1] He is known to horror film fans for his 1980 opus Alien 2: On Earth , which he coproduced, wrote and directed.