Writing

Guido Malatesta

Born — Died

1919-10-02 — 1970-06-14

Place of birth

Gallarate, Lombardy, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Guido Malatesta was an Italian screenwriter and film director active from the 1950s to the early 1970s. He began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to various Italian films before transitioning to directing. Malatesta directed numerous genre films, including peplum, adventure, and Spaghetti Westerns. His notable works include Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960), Fury of Achilles (1962), and Django's Cut Price Corpses (1971). Malatesta's films are characterized by their action sequences and adherence to genre conventions, contributing to the popularity of Italian genre cinema during his active years.

Known for

The Slave Merchants poster
4.4

The daughter of a noble man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero. Repackaged from an original Sword-and-Sandal italian film.

The Slave Merchants

1964

Spies Kill Silently poster
7.2

Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is entrusted to the Special Agent Mikel Brown.

Spies Kill Silently

1966

The Sheriff Won't Shoot poster
10.0

A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang's head.

The Sheriff Won't Shoot

1965

Lone and Angry Man poster
5.2

Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.

Lone and Angry Man

1965

Poppea's Hot Nights poster
4.7

Poppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.

Poppea's Hot Nights

1969

Sign of Zorro poster
6.0

General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.

Sign of Zorro

1963

Behind the camera

The Slave Merchants poster
4.4

The daughter of a noble man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero. Repackaged from an original Sword-and-Sandal italian film.

The Slave Merchants

1964

Spies Kill Silently poster
7.2

Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is entrusted to the Special Agent Mikel Brown.

Spies Kill Silently

1966

The Sheriff Won't Shoot poster
10.0

A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang's head.

The Sheriff Won't Shoot

1965

Lone and Angry Man poster
5.2

Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.

Lone and Angry Man

1965

Poppea's Hot Nights poster
4.7

Poppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.

Poppea's Hot Nights

1969

Poppea's Hot Nights poster
4.7

Poppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.

Poppea's Hot Nights

1969

Sign of Zorro poster
6.0

General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.

Sign of Zorro

1963

The Invincible Masked Rider poster
5.2

In 17th century Spain, the evil, corrupt Don Luis intends to marry his ward, Carmencita, to his stepson, Don Diego. A peasant revolt, fuelled by a plague, complicates matters, as does the arrival of a Masked Avenger.

The Invincible Masked Rider

1963

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

Fury of the Pagans poster
7.0

In an imaginary northern European country during the High Middle Ages, two leaders of a barbarian village fight to gain power: one is good and right and the other is an evil selfish. Who will have it?

Fury of the Pagans

1960

Samson and the Sea Beasts poster
3.2

A terrible pirate terrorizes the Antilles plundering ships, slaughtering their crews and selling women as slaves. One of the women asks Sansone for help.

Samson and the Sea Beasts

1963

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle poster
4.5

Adventurer Clint travels across Borneo with a bunch of rogues and geologists on the search for a diamond mine. In the middle of the jungle, they meet a beautiful woman called Samoa. Hardly a surprise that Clint falls in love with Samoa, but trouble with the natives begins when the diamonds are found because diamonds are holy stones to them.

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle

1968

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle poster
4.5

Adventurer Clint travels across Borneo with a bunch of rogues and geologists on the search for a diamond mine. In the middle of the jungle, they meet a beautiful woman called Samoa. Hardly a surprise that Clint falls in love with Samoa, but trouble with the natives begins when the diamonds are found because diamonds are holy stones to them.

Samoa, Queen of the Jungle

1968

Il prezzo della gloria poster
8.0

A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.

Il prezzo della gloria

1956

Colossus of the Stone Age poster
5.0

Wandering strongman Maxxus comes upon two warring tribes, the Sun worshipers and the Moon worshipers...and fights monsters !

Colossus of the Stone Age

1963

Colossus of the Stone Age poster
5.0

Wandering strongman Maxxus comes upon two warring tribes, the Sun worshipers and the Moon worshipers...and fights monsters !

Colossus of the Stone Age

1963

Samson and the Slave Queen poster
6.8

The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson while Isabella relies on the masked El Toro (a.k.a. Zorro) even though her heart belongs to the mild-mannered poet, Ramon. Malva's ruthless desire for the throne soon alienates Samson and he and El Toro then team up to bring about a proper resolution to the Nogara succession. Meanwhile, Isabella learns El Toto's true identity, an identity which both surprises and pleases her.

Samson and the Slave Queen

1963

Son of Black Eagle poster
6.0

Count Aleksej is a notorious seducer at the Czar court but also the son of local Caucasus hero Black Eagle. When the Russians invade his land Aleksej must decide where to stand while pursuing his passion for Natascia, who detests him.

Son of Black Eagle

1968

Son of Black Eagle poster
6.0

Count Aleksej is a notorious seducer at the Czar court but also the son of local Caucasus hero Black Eagle. When the Russians invade his land Aleksej must decide where to stand while pursuing his passion for Natascia, who detests him.

Son of Black Eagle

1968

Guaglione poster
6.8

This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill

Guaglione

1956

Fire Over Rome poster
8.0

Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...

Fire Over Rome

1965

Fire Over Rome poster
8.0

Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...

Fire Over Rome

1965

Per salvarti ho peccato poster
8.0

Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection.

Per salvarti ho peccato

1953

Marauders of the Sahara poster
8.0

With the guide of an adventurer of uncertain allegiance, a brother and sister try to rescue their father, held captive by the Bedouins of the Sahara.

Marauders of the Sahara

1965

Agosto, donne mie non vi conosco poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agosto, donne mie non vi conosco

1959

Agosto, donne mie non vi conosco poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agosto, donne mie non vi conosco

1959

Colossus and the Headhunters poster
2.9

Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island. They end up caught in between two warring tribes.

Colossus and the Headhunters

1963

Colossus and the Headhunters poster
2.9

Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island. They end up caught in between two warring tribes.

Colossus and the Headhunters

1963

Colossus and the Headhunters poster
2.9

Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island. They end up caught in between two warring tribes.

Colossus and the Headhunters

1963

Valley of the Doomed poster
9.0

1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.

Valley of the Doomed

1960

Maniacs on Wheels poster
7.7

Racing drama set in the world of Formula 1 racing.

Maniacs on Wheels

1970

Maniacs on Wheels poster
7.7

Racing drama set in the world of Formula 1 racing.

Maniacs on Wheels

1970

Mission Phantom poster
8.0

A group known as Phantom are hired by an eccentric in a wheelchair to heist 4 billion dollars worth of diamonds from Russia.

Mission Phantom

1967

Mission Phantom poster
8.0

A group known as Phantom are hired by an eccentric in a wheelchair to heist 4 billion dollars worth of diamonds from Russia.

Mission Phantom

1967

The Head of a Tyrant poster
6.0

A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city.

The Head of a Tyrant

1959

Barrier of the Law poster
8.0

An undercover policeman infiltrates a criminal gang.

Barrier of the Law

1954

The Revolt of the Barbarians poster
4.8

A roman consul is sent to Gaul to investigate the theft of gold shipments. He discovers that the gold is being stolen by a tribe of barbarians — whose leader is the governor of Gaul.

The Revolt of the Barbarians

1964

The Revolt of the Barbarians poster
4.8

A roman consul is sent to Gaul to investigate the theft of gold shipments. He discovers that the gold is being stolen by a tribe of barbarians — whose leader is the governor of Gaul.

The Revolt of the Barbarians

1964

Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo? poster
6.3

Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of the thieves is located in a mental hospital and sets about infiltrating their ranks.

Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo?

1971

Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo? poster
6.3

Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of the thieves is located in a mental hospital and sets about infiltrating their ranks.

Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo?

1971