Writing

Giovanni Simonelli

Born — Died

1926-12-01 — 2007-11-17

Place of birth

Roma, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

Known for

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sartana Does Not Forgive poster
6.4

Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim who raped and murdered his bride.

Sartana Does Not Forgive

1968

Johnny Yuma poster
6.2

Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.

Johnny Yuma

1966

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

I'll Sell My Skin Dearly poster
6.8

Shane’s a man come home to settle something he’d tried to forget, but has kept eating at him. His mother, father, and little sister, had been murdered for their land. Specifically an old mine the father had been working at for years with little result, but had finally struck a vein.

I'll Sell My Skin Dearly

1968

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 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

White Fang to the Rescue poster
5.7

Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.

White Fang to the Rescue

1975

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

The Killer Likes Candy poster
5.2

Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.

The Killer Likes Candy

1968

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

Bloody Psycho poster
5.0

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

Bloody Psycho

1989

Conqueror of Maracaibo poster
9.0

Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...

Conqueror of Maracaibo

1961

$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

The Face with Two Left Feet poster
6.3

Gianni, a hotel cook, is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ at the nightclub "John's Fever" but he can't dance. When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.

The Face with Two Left Feet

1979

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

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell poster
7.7

A 1965 Italian adventure-Eurospy film directed by Sergio Sollima (credited as Simon Sterling). This is the first chapter in the Sollima's spy film trilogy with Agent 3S3. Here the intelligence agent from the U.S. is tasked with uncovering the leader of the Black Scorpion.

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell

1965

Knives of the Avenger poster
6.3

A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself.

Knives of the Avenger

1966

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

Jungle Raiders poster
4.4

An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.

Jungle Raiders

1985

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

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

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

Now They Call Him Sacramento poster
7.0

After stealing money transported in a train, Sacramento, Big Jim and Tequila arribe to "La Paz" town. They rent a room there in order to hide the money but Sacramento and Big Jim, while Tequila is sleeping, run away with the money. Tequila follow them...

Now They Call Him Sacramento

1972

Electra One poster
6.3

A jewel thief crosses paths with a woman carrying a briefcase that the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese all want desperately, so he goes on the run with her figuring that what's inside the case has to be way more valuable than anything he could steal on his own.

Electra One

1967

Whisky and Ghosts poster
8.5

A snake-oil salesman is chased across the desert by a gang of Mexican bandits. He finds out, however, that he is being protected by the spirits of Davey Crockett, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed.

Whisky and Ghosts

1974

The Ark of the Sun God poster
5.3

A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.

The Ark of the Sun God

1984

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

Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return poster
7.2

An army officer, after killing his own men, steals a chest with a hundred thousand dollars in gold.

Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return

1972

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

Balearic Caper poster
4.9

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.

Balearic Caper

1966

Countdown to Doomsday poster
7.5

NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas.

Countdown to Doomsday

1966

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill poster
6.4

Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

1966

Hansel and Gretel poster
3.9

A farming community make their money through kidnapping children and selling their vital organs on the black market.

Hansel and Gretel

1990

Hansel and Gretel poster
3.9

A farming community make their money through kidnapping children and selling their vital organs on the black market.

Hansel and Gretel

1990