Saturday, October 9, 2010

The Dream of Zorro

Il sogno di Zorro - Italian title

El ultimo Zorro - Spanish title
El sueno de Zorro - Spanish title
De erfgenaam van Zorro - Dutch title
L’heritier de Zorro - French title
Zorro, der Held - German title
The Dream of Zorro - English title

A 1951 Italian production [I.C.S. (Rome)]
Producer: Niccolò Theodoli
Director: Mario Soldati
Story: Mario Amendola, Ruggero Maccari, Marcello Marchesi
Screenplay: Mario Amendola, Sandro Continenza (Alessandro Continenza), Ruggero Maccari,
Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz
Cinematography: Mario Montouri [black & white]
Running time: 93 minutes

Cast:
Don Raimundo Esteba - Walter Chiari (Walter Annichiarico)
Don Juan Antonio - Vittotio Gassman
Gloria/Estrella/Dolores - Delia Scala (Odette Bedogni)
Don Esteban Contrero - Carlo Ninchi
General Ruarte - Gianni Musy (Giovanni Musy)
José - Umberto Aquilino
Pablo/Ramon - Sandro Bianchi
César/Pedro - Juan de Landa (Juan Landa)
Luisa/Consuelo - Gisella Monaldi
Manuel - Piero Capanna (Pietro Capanna)
Maria/Marta - Michele Philippe
washer woman - Anna Arena (Ada Arena)
captain - Giorgio Constantini
Don Formoso - Augusto Di Giovanni
Don Alonzo - Giovanni Dolfini
Maestro di musica - Claudio Ermelli (Ettore Foa)
Panchito - Giacomo Furia
Conchita - Sofia Scicolone
Perez’s daughter - Michael Malaspina (Micelangelo Malaspina)
Ignacio - Guido Morisi
Don Garcia Fernandez - Luigi Pavese
Notaio - Riccardo Rioli
Don César Alcazan - Gualtiero Tumiati
Donna Hermosa Alcazan - Nietta Zocchi (Antoinetta Zocchi)



Papa Zorro thinks his son is an idiot when he’s thrown from a horse. So much so the young Zorro decides to join the priesthood. When young Don Raimondo is wounded in the head he miraculously turns in to a ardent seducer and the bold and heroic hero his father has desired.

1 comment:

  1. Biltmore: The film has a very young Sophia Loren, credited under her real name.

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