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Acting for America: Movie Stars of the 1980s. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4760-2. Frayling, Christopher (2012). Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816646838. Hughes, Howard (2006). Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies. New York City: I. B. Tauris.
The movie in many ways tries to show Nero as a good soul gone mad, beginning as a brilliant young prince enduring injustice, then hailed enthusiastically at the beginning of his reign, implementing much-needed reforms and enjoying immense popularity. Half the film concentrates on Nero's teenage years and his love life with Acte.
David "Noodles" Aaronson is a fictional character who is the protagonist of the 1952 novel The Hoods by Harry Grey, and of the book's 1984 film adaptation, [1] Once Upon a Time in America, [2] [3] [4] where he was portrayed by Robert De Niro. [5] [6] Noodles reappears, only to die in 1937, in Grey's second novel Call Me Duke (1955).
Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang: Ned Kelly: Frank Mills: 1909: The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: Ludwig van Beethoven: Harry Baur: The Life of Moses: Moses: Pat Hartigan: Edgar Allen Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: Herbert Yost: Saul and David: King David: Maurice Costello: King Saul: William V. Ranous ...
Django (/ ˈ dʒ æ ŋ ɡ oʊ / JANG-goh) [5] is a 1966 spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci, starring Franco Nero (in his breakthrough role) as the title character alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez, and Eduardo Fajardo. [6]
The finished four-hour film, Once Upon a Time in America (1984), featured Robert De Niro and James Woods. It was a meditation on another aspect of popular American mythology, the role of greed and violence and their uneasy coexistence with the meaning of ethnicity and friendship.
The film features many uncredited supporting parts and cameos: including Elizabeth Taylor as a Christian prisoner in arena, [citation needed] Sophia Loren as a Lygian slave, [4] Christopher Lee as a chariot driver, Clelia Matania as Parmenida the hairdresser, Marika Aba as the Assyrian Dancer at Nero's banquet, Richard Garrick as a slave with ...
"Meet Nero Wolfe is an above average minor A picture, a solid mystery, and unfailingly entertaining", reported Scarlet Street magazine in 2002 when it revisited the film. "No, at bottom, it's not Rex Stout's Nero and Archie, but it's a well-developed mystery (thanks to Stout's plot) with compensations all its own—and an interesting piece of ...