Renato Montalbano

Acting

Renato Montalbano

Born

1931-05-17 (95)

Place of birth

Catania, Sicily, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 37 titles

$10,000 for a Massacre poster
5.4

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.

$10,000 for a Massacre

1967

The Sweet Body of Deborah poster
5.5

A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.

The Sweet Body of Deborah

1968

Star Pilot poster
4.8

Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...

Star Pilot

1966

The Dolls poster
5.3

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

The Dolls

1965

Mamma Roma poster
7.9

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Mamma Roma

1962

Almost a Man poster
6.5

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.

Almost a Man

1966

Slave Girls of Sheba poster
10.0

Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also buy female slaves and end up fighting over them.

Slave Girls of Sheba

1963

Lightning Bolt poster
5.6

A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.

Lightning Bolt

1966

Revolt of the Praetorians poster
6.4

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact, the Red Wolf is Valerius Rufus, one of the Emperor's trusted centurions who's aided by none other than the Emperor's court jester, the diminutive Elpidion. Rebels in league with Valerius kidnap Artamne, planning to exchange her for two of their imprisoned colleagues, but Artamne escapes and soon both Valerius, (now exposed as the Red Wolf), and his fiancee, Lucilla, are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead. Valerius's friends, however, rise up to rescue him and to liberate Rome.

Revolt of the Praetorians

1964

The Hawks and the Sparrows poster
7.2

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

The Hawks and the Sparrows

1966

The Monster of the Opera poster
4.4

A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.

The Monster of the Opera

1964

Lo scandalo poster
8.0

A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.

Lo scandalo

1966

Conqueror of the Orient poster
8.0

Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.

Conqueror of the Orient

1961

Love in Rome poster
5.5

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

Love in Rome

1960

The Conjugal Bed poster
6.5

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.

The Conjugal Bed

1963

Viva l'Italia! poster
6.5

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.

Viva l'Italia!

1961

War Between the Planets poster
5.2

Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.

War Between the Planets

1966

The Golden Arrow poster
5.2

Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.

The Golden Arrow

1962

Corruption poster
7.5

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...

Corruption

1963

Cuore matto... matto da legare poster
6.0

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.

Cuore matto... matto da legare

1967

The Mandrake poster
5.8

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

The Mandrake

1965

The Corsican Brothers poster
6.2

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

The Corsican Brothers

1961

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? poster
6.7

A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

1964

Make Love, Not War poster
7.0

Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witted officer, a meager and dazed crew, and Ombrina, a girl rescued from a shipwreck when she was only one year old and adopted by the men of the strange vessel.

Make Love, Not War

1966

Hong Kong Hot Harbor poster
8.0

German journalist Peter Holberg arrives in Hong Kong and, by accident, he is carrying a microfilm that was destined to local gang lord, Marek. Peter is helped by another German journalist, Joan Kent, and falls in love with a night-club dancer, Colette. Colette is actually working for Marek, but betrays the gang for love - at the ultimate cost to her. The HK Police will intervene just in time to prevent Peter from further losses.

Hong Kong Hot Harbor

1962

James Tont Operation T.W.O. poster
4.8

A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

1966

Assault on the State Treasure poster
7.8

Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world are in charge to rob it. An undefined intelligence agency tries to stop them. An infiltrator is not sure for who is working. A complicate twist is waiting beyond the corner and will include a love affair too.

Assault on the State Treasure

1967

The Secret Seven poster
9.0

Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group of mercenaries, without listening to his brother, who begs her to join the fight for freedom.

The Secret Seven

1963

A Million Dollars for 7 Murders poster
4.5

Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula.

A Million Dollars for 7 Murders

1966

La bella di Lodi poster
6.0

Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi.

La bella di Lodi

1963

A Man for Burning poster
5.8

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.

A Man for Burning

1962

I due toreri poster
6.1

In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.

I due toreri

1964

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis poster
8.0

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

1969

One Million Dollars poster
6.1

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has plans for hanky-panky along the way, but Jane has her own motives as she's only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection.

One Million Dollars

1964

Ring Around the World poster
6.2

Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a globe-hopping escapade featuring a plane-and-parachute stunt later repeated in the James Bond film Moonraker.

Ring Around the World

1966

Cronache del '22 poster
7.2

Five different episodes unfold against the backdrop of Italian historical and political events in 1922. In the first, in the aftermath of the March on Rome, two scoundrels speculate on the event. In the second, a punitive expedition enters the home of a socialist deputy. In the third, the fascists rob a countess. In the fourth, a disgraced marshal incriminates a fascist Camorra member. In the fifth, there is the story of an encounter at the seaside.

Cronache del '22

1961

Psycosissimo poster
6.7

Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.

Psycosissimo

1961

1950s · 15 titles

Il padrone delle ferriere poster
7.3

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.

Il padrone delle ferriere

1959

Herod the Great poster
6.3

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.

Herod the Great

1959

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge poster
7.6

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

1956

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love poster
7.4

The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

1958

The Warrior and the Slave Girl poster
6.7

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Asclepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent

The Warrior and the Slave Girl

1958

The Mysteries of Paris poster
8.0

Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.

The Mysteries of Paris

1957

La nipote Sabella poster
6.7

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".

La nipote Sabella

1958

È arrivata la parigina poster
10.0

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.

È arrivata la parigina

1958

The Guilty poster
7.1

Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and protective mother. From their union only one child was born: Maurizio. Both parents raise him completely differently, highlighting their character differences. Until the day when Maurizio, now a teenager, together with a friend commits an attack for futile reasons against a gas station attendant. Having learned of the incident, Valerio and Lucia also in this case intend to face the situation in a diametrically opposite way. The conflicts within the family thus strongly resurface, in which, amidst rebounds of responsibility, the errors of both parents emerge in the upbringing of their child.

The Guilty

1957

Quando gli angeli piangono poster
8.0

After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.

Quando gli angeli piangono

1958

The Third poster
7.0

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.

The Third

1958

Via col para... vento poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Via col para... vento

1958

Knight Without a Country poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Knight Without a Country

1959

Fantasmi e ladri poster
6.7

Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.

Fantasmi e ladri

1959

The Black Archer poster
7.0

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.

The Black Archer

1959

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