Castellano

Writing

Castellano

Born 1925-06-20 · Rome, Italy

Franco Castellano(1925-1999) Franco Castellano was born on 20 June 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980), The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964) and Madly in Love (1981). He died on 28 December 1999 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today poster
7.2

A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

1960

The Taming of the Scoundrel poster
7.2

A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...

The Taming of the Scoundrel

1980

Totòtruffa '62 poster
7.6

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

Totòtruffa '62

1961

Ace poster
6.2

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Ace

1981

Ace poster
6.2

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Ace

1981

How I Learned to Love Women poster
4.8

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.

How I Learned to Love Women

1966

Rita the Field Marshal poster
5.2

A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.

Rita the Field Marshal

1967

Ci hai rotto papà poster
6.1

Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.

Ci hai rotto papà

1993

Ci hai rotto papà poster
6.1

Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.

Ci hai rotto papà

1993

Saturday, Sunday and Friday poster
5.2

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.

Saturday, Sunday and Friday

1979

Saturday, Sunday and Friday poster
5.2

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.

Saturday, Sunday and Friday

1979

How to Kill 400 Duponts poster
5.1

Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.

How to Kill 400 Duponts

1968

Madly in Love poster
6.7

Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.

Madly in Love

1981

The Union poster
4.9

A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.

The Union

1972

Soldier of Fortune poster
6.3

Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Soldier of Fortune

1976

Sugar, Honey and Pepper poster
6.0

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

Sugar, Honey and Pepper

1980

Saint Tropez, Saint Tropez poster
4.3

Four stories intertwine during summer at Saint-Tropez: a couple tries to recapture their spark; a girl falls for a male stripper she met at a night club; a famous pianist tries to prevent his ex-wife from re-marrying; an unsuspecting suicidal man gives a gorgeous female Mafia hitman a run for her money.

Saint Tropez, Saint Tropez

1992

Saint Tropez, Saint Tropez poster
4.3

Four stories intertwine during summer at Saint-Tropez: a couple tries to recapture their spark; a girl falls for a male stripper she met at a night club; a famous pianist tries to prevent his ex-wife from re-marrying; an unsuspecting suicidal man gives a gorgeous female Mafia hitman a run for her money.

Saint Tropez, Saint Tropez

1992

War Italian Style poster
5.0

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.

War Italian Style

1965

Velvet Hands poster
6.4

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.

Velvet Hands

1979

Velvet Hands poster
6.4

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.

Velvet Hands

1979

Department Store poster
5.8

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

Department Store

1986

Department Store poster
5.8

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

Department Store

1986

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia poster
7.3

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

1974