Writing

Giovanni Simonelli

Born 1926-12-01 · Roma, Italy

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity poster
5.7

This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the success of the first film and essentially uses the same plot. George Martin returns as Clint (renamed Trinity in some countries), an ex-gunslinger desperately wanting to be forgiven and accepted by his family that he abandoned years earlier. One major differences in the plot when compared to the first film is the addition of Klaus Kinski as a ruthless bounty hunter. The bounty hunter tracks Clint down and forces him to return to his violent ways to protect himself and his family.

A Noose Is Waiting for You Trinity

1972

Flatfoot in Africa poster
6.2

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

Flatfoot in Africa

1978

Bloody Psycho poster
4.8

A psychic healer is hired to provide relief to the wheelchair-bound mistress of a castle hiding a ghostly secret.

Bloody Psycho

1989

Virility poster
4.9

A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.

Virility

1974

Django Shoots First poster
5.2

Django's father is framed by his business partner Clusker and shot by a bounty Killer. Django inherits his fathers part of the business and a score to settle with Clusker.

Django Shoots First

1966

The Squeeze poster
5.9

A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.

The Squeeze

1978

A Cat in the Brain poster
5.7

The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.

A Cat in the Brain

1990

One After Another poster
6.1

Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.

One After Another

1968

Every Man Is My Enemy poster
3.5

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...

Every Man Is My Enemy

1967

Kill, Panther, Kill! poster
6.8

Two rivals are out to recover a cache of stolen jewels. The thief who originally stole them has just gotten out of prison, however, and he is looking for his twin brother, who knows where the jewels are hidden. Complications ensue.

Kill, Panther, Kill!

1968

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay poster
6.5

After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.

Have a Good Funeral, My Friend… Sartana Will Pay

1970

Playgirl 70 poster
3.7

Italian comedy.

Playgirl 70

1969

The Crimes of the Black Cat poster
5.5

In Copenhagen, a blind pianist hunts the culprit in string of murders, each linked by the presence of a yellow shawl and a black cat.

The Crimes of the Black Cat

1972

Goliath Against the Giants poster
6.0

Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for opposing a usurper king and his consort.

Goliath Against the Giants

1961

Any Gun Can Play poster
6.2

A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.

Any Gun Can Play

1967

$100,000 for Ringo poster
5.1

A stranger rides into Rainbow Valley where he's mistaken for a former resident who was believed killed in the Civil War and soon finds himself in opposition to local boss Tom Cherry, who seeks to find $100,000 stashed away by a Mexican general.

$100,000 for Ringo

1965

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye poster
5.5

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye

1973

The Big Hit of Surcouf poster
6.0

The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.

The Big Hit of Surcouf

1966

The Sea Pirate poster
6.1

A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.

The Sea Pirate

1966

Special Mission Lady Chaplin poster
6.5

Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?

Special Mission Lady Chaplin

1966

Seven Guns for Timothy poster
5.2

The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are his only hope and they teach him the lessons of self-reliance. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Seven Guns for Timothy

1966

Assassination in Rome poster
5.5

In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.

Assassination in Rome

1965

The House of Doves poster
5.0

The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be the companion of a rich older woman

The House of Doves

1972

Revenge of the Black Knight poster
6.0

La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights fight the cruel Tyrant Amedeo, tutor of the beautiful, rich and blind orphan Isabella. The knights are led by a young doctor who in the end will defeat Isabella's evil oppressor, give her her sight and marry her.

Revenge of the Black Knight

1963