Directing
Pino Mercanti
Born — Died
1911-02-16 — 1986-09-03
Place of birth
Palermo, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
25 titles
Giuseppe Mercanti, best known as Pino Mercanti (16 February 1911 – 3 September 1986), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Mercanti was a pioneer of the Sicilian cinema as the leading filmmaker and the artistic director of the production company O.F.S. (a.k.a. Organizzazione Filmistica Siciliana), founded by the brothers Francesco and Girolamo Gorgone with the purpose of promoting the production of films on Sicilian soil. Following the bankruptcy of the company, Mercanti moved to Rome, where he directed a number of melodramas, adventure films, Spaghetti Westerns and other genre films, often international co-productions. He was sometimes credited as Joseph …
Known for
8.0Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.
Serenata amara
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Primo applauso
1957
5.9Rudy Wallace arrives home to take over the family ranch as his father was killed by cattle baron Morrison. Morrison wants no competition and instructs all other ranchers not to sell Rudy any cattle. A sheriff has followed Rudy to arrest him as an accomplice in a series of holdups but eventually finds out that Rudy is innocent and helps him defeat the crooked Morrison. Filmed back-to-back with Damned Pistols of Dallas
Three Dollars of Lead
1964
9.0Italian gangster story with socio-politico themes about a Robin Hood-esque character.
The Underground
1970
8.0The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
I cinque dell'Adamello
1954
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Ambush on the Sea
1955
Behind the camera
8.0Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.
Serenata amara
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Primo applauso
1957
5.9Rudy Wallace arrives home to take over the family ranch as his father was killed by cattle baron Morrison. Morrison wants no competition and instructs all other ranchers not to sell Rudy any cattle. A sheriff has followed Rudy to arrest him as an accomplice in a series of holdups but eventually finds out that Rudy is innocent and helps him defeat the crooked Morrison. Filmed back-to-back with Damned Pistols of Dallas
Three Dollars of Lead
1964
9.0Italian gangster story with socio-politico themes about a Robin Hood-esque character.
The Underground
1970
9.0Italian gangster story with socio-politico themes about a Robin Hood-esque character.
The Underground
1970
8.0The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
I cinque dell'Adamello
1954
8.0The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
I cinque dell'Adamello
1954
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Ambush on the Sea
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La carovana del peccato
1953
7.0Cesar Borgia--a cardinal in the Catholic church, a confidant of the Pope and a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in 16th-century Italy--must deal with a host of political and personal crises. He is having problems with his mistress, and members of a secret society called The Black Carnation are out to assassinate him.
The Black Duke
1963
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Il principe ribelle
1950
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La vendetta di una pazza
1951
6.5Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.
Knight of 100 Faces
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La voce del sangue
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La voce del sangue
1952
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Ricordati di Napoli
1958
6.5Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.
The Outlaws
1950
9.0Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
1948
9.0Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
1948
5.5Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city.
Gentlemen of the Night
1964
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Lacrime d'amore
1954
7.5A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca
Malacarne
1946
7.5A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca
Malacarne
1946
10.0No synopsis available yet.
All'ombra della gloria
1945