Roberto Bianchi Montero

Directing

Roberto Bianchi Montero

Born — Died

1907-12-07 — 1986-01-01

Place of birth

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

Roberto Bianchi Montero (7 December 1907 – 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group with whom he performed in several festivals. In 1930 he entered the stage company of Ettore Petrolini, and in 1934 he founded his own company. In 1936 he got his first film role, and in the late 1930s he also was assistant director for a number of films. After the Second World War, Bianchi Montero directed numerous genre films, usually low-budget productions, in which he often also collaborated to the screenplays. He particularly specialized in melodramas, Spaghetti We…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Caligula's Hot Nights poster
4.0

In Augusta the emperor Caligula has a serious problem: he must demonstrate his manliness "coram populo" on the occasion of the feast of Priapus. But the Imperial young man is powerless and threatens a fool in front of the people who arrive in droves to watch the battle. To avoid this conflict, he goes to the professor Barnardus and attempts to hide out in his clinic.

Caligula's Hot Nights

1977

Caligula's Hot Nights poster
4.0

In Augusta the emperor Caligula has a serious problem: he must demonstrate his manliness "coram populo" on the occasion of the feast of Priapus. But the Imperial young man is powerless and threatens a fool in front of the people who arrive in droves to watch the battle. To avoid this conflict, he goes to the professor Barnardus and attempts to hide out in his clinic.

Caligula's Hot Nights

1977

Blueprint for a Massacre poster
9.0

A series of incidents involving aircrafts belonging to NATO nations indicates a systematic sabotage.

Blueprint for a Massacre

1967

Blueprint for a Massacre poster
9.0

A series of incidents involving aircrafts belonging to NATO nations indicates a systematic sabotage.

Blueprint for a Massacre

1967

So Sweet, So Dead poster
5.9

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

So Sweet, So Dead

1972

So Sweet, So Dead poster
5.9

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

So Sweet, So Dead

1972

Sentence of God poster
5.5

A bounty hunter named Minnesota is only interested in big bounties. El Santo is wanted, but has a much smaller price on his head. He’s on a mission to find the killer of his father. The two men have this in common: They’re both looking for an bandit leader named Corbancho.

Sentence of God

1972

The Battle of the Damned poster
5.8

A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to blow up a huge German fuel depot.

The Battle of the Damned

1969

The Battle of the Damned poster
5.8

A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to blow up a huge German fuel depot.

The Battle of the Damned

1969

Death Is Sweet From the Soldier Of God poster
5.5

A man, after being accused of a robbery and escaping from jail with a bandit leader, seeks revenge for his brother and his family.

Death Is Sweet From the Soldier Of God

1972

36 Hours of Hell poster
5.4

American marines are sent to a Japanese-occupied Pacific island that has been subjected to a bombing campaign, only to encounter heavy resistance from the surviving enemy forces.

36 Hours of Hell

1969

36 Hours of Hell poster
5.4

American marines are sent to a Japanese-occupied Pacific island that has been subjected to a bombing campaign, only to encounter heavy resistance from the surviving enemy forces.

36 Hours of Hell

1969

Eye of the Spider poster
4.5

A diamond robber, who was left behind in the hands of the police, gets out of prison and teams up with the man who funded the robbery, but who never saw the loot, to get even with the other members of the gang.

Eye of the Spider

1971

The Island Monster poster
3.2

An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.

The Island Monster

1954

The Island Monster poster
3.2

An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.

The Island Monster

1954

I contrabbandieri del mare poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I contrabbandieri del mare

1949

I contrabbandieri del mare poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I contrabbandieri del mare

1949

Two Faces of the Dollar poster
6.6

A teacher, a gunman, an ex-Colonel and a beautiful girl decide to steal a big load of gold stored in Fort Henderson. The task is not easy, because the fort is very well guarded, but with adventurous stratagems...

Two Faces of the Dollar

1967

The Sewer Rats poster
4.8

A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.

The Sewer Rats

1974

Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die poster
5.7

Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.

Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die

1971

Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die poster
5.7

Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.

Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die

1971

Those Two in the Legion poster
6.4

Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.

Those Two in the Legion

1962

Rangers Attack at Hour X poster
5.6

A special forces operative is smuggled into a German POW camp with orders to blow up a nearby villa being used by the Nazis to house a secret weapons program.

Rangers Attack at Hour X

1970

La Pica sul Pacifico poster
6.3

Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.

La Pica sul Pacifico

1959

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La figlia della Madonna

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La figlia della Madonna

1949

Una madre ritorna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Una madre ritorna

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Una madre ritorna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Una madre ritorna

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La zia d'America va a sciare poster
7.0

Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.

La zia d'America va a sciare

1958

Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia poster
4.3

Episodic sexy comedy on the theme of magic told through the centuries in eight spicy episodes.

Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia

1973

Colussus and the Huns poster
8.5

King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, strongest of the neighboring rulers. Haadem, however, is just concluding an alliance with Kudrum, the ambitious son of a king hostile to Hun interests. To cement this alliance, Haadem has agreed to marry his daughter, Tamall, to Kudrun, but Tamall dislikes Kudrum. She quickly falls in love with the newly-arrived Tharus. Kudrum inflames Haadem's feelings against Tharus and arranges to have Tharus publicly flogged. Not satisfied, Kudrum then murders Haadem and has the crime blamed on Tharus. Tamall's love for Tharus is tested but then she comes to believe Tharus's claims of innocence and works on behalf of Tharus as Kudrum's forces arrive for a decisive battle.

Colussus and the Huns

1962

Colussus and the Huns poster
8.5

King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, strongest of the neighboring rulers. Haadem, however, is just concluding an alliance with Kudrum, the ambitious son of a king hostile to Hun interests. To cement this alliance, Haadem has agreed to marry his daughter, Tamall, to Kudrun, but Tamall dislikes Kudrum. She quickly falls in love with the newly-arrived Tharus. Kudrum inflames Haadem's feelings against Tharus and arranges to have Tharus publicly flogged. Not satisfied, Kudrum then murders Haadem and has the crime blamed on Tharus. Tamall's love for Tharus is tested but then she comes to believe Tharus's claims of innocence and works on behalf of Tharus as Kudrum's forces arrive for a decisive battle.

Colussus and the Huns

1962

Desperate Mission poster
7.0

A nuclear scientist is kidnapped by Chinese communists in Hong Kong. A Japanese group of judo experts kidnaps him from the kidnappers, but before they can contact the American agent who has been assigned with overseeing the scientist's transfer back to the USA, the agent is killed. The American secret service send their top man to Hong Kong as his replacement, with the mission of locating the scientist. But there are TWO rival gangs of baddies who are also looking for the same target, so our hero has to assume a different identity to infiltrate them.

Desperate Mission

1965

Hell in the Jungle poster
3.8

A group of sadists intent on rape girls in the middle of the wilderness.

Hell in the Jungle

1979

Hell in the Jungle poster
3.8

A group of sadists intent on rape girls in the middle of the wilderness.

Hell in the Jungle

1979

The stunt poster
4.0

Five bored rich boys from Rome receive a tip-off, and steal three cars that belong to a clandestine organisation that exports to Switzerland. One of the cars contains four billion lire.

The stunt

1977

The Man from Oklahoma poster
7.0

Edward, a powerful rancher, serves as a real chief of a town near the Mexican border. The arrival of Oklahoma John, new sheriff, not to your liking. The new lawman faces Jimmy, the son of the chief and his buddy.

The Man from Oklahoma

1965

Notti calde d'Oriente poster
10.0

Notti Calde d'Oriente (released in English-speaking countries "Orient by Night"), the 1962 Roberto Bianchi Montero Italian mondo strip tease sexploitation documentary featuring Takeucmi Keigo and His Imperial Japanese Dancers, Bommie the International Dancer of New Orleans, Chiquita and her Jamaican Strip-Tease, The Two Jolly Sisters, and Dodo D'Amburgo the Queen of the Strip-Tease. Note that this was one of the approximately 100 "sexy nocturne" mondo style documentaries that were produced between 1959 and 1970, mainly in Italy. They are documentaries that include segments of strippers, which allowed them to include nudity that had formerly only been seen in nudist movies. The strippers are shown performing their acts, and there was an attempt to film them artistically.

Notti calde d'Oriente

1962

Notti calde d'Oriente poster
10.0

Notti Calde d'Oriente (released in English-speaking countries "Orient by Night"), the 1962 Roberto Bianchi Montero Italian mondo strip tease sexploitation documentary featuring Takeucmi Keigo and His Imperial Japanese Dancers, Bommie the International Dancer of New Orleans, Chiquita and her Jamaican Strip-Tease, The Two Jolly Sisters, and Dodo D'Amburgo the Queen of the Strip-Tease. Note that this was one of the approximately 100 "sexy nocturne" mondo style documentaries that were produced between 1959 and 1970, mainly in Italy. They are documentaries that include segments of strippers, which allowed them to include nudity that had formerly only been seen in nudist movies. The strippers are shown performing their acts, and there was an attempt to film them artistically.

Notti calde d'Oriente

1962

The Black Panther of Ratana poster
7.0

Murder mystery following the revenge for the theft of a sapphire from a Buddha in a Thailand temple.

The Black Panther of Ratana

1963