Word: gassmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fumetti models are paid an average of $16 to $25 a day, and some of them-Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, for example-go on to bigger things. Some of them even come back. Such Italian film and television celebrities as Mike Buongiorno, Vittorio Gassmann and Marisa del Frate pose willingly for fumetti scripts, draw as much as $20,000 for a single series-which, shot in weeks, will be doled out to an avid public for months...
...Vittorio Gassmann, as the thief, is as sneaky as they come. An American actress, Doris Dowling, play the cast-off girl friend with sensitivity, although she seems a trifle anaemic compared to Mangano. Raf Vallone capably completes the cast. Without the fine acting of those people and Silvana Mangame. Raf Vallone capably completes the cast. Without the fine acting of those people and Silvana Mangono, "Bitter Rice" would have been a weak attempt. Thanks to them, however, it is a hard-hitting film--even if it does aim a little below the belt...
...from the police join the migrant workers crowded into an abandoned barracks on Italian estate. One of them (Hollywood's Doris Dowling) slogs into the rice paddies and finds redemption in hard work and the love of an army sergeant (Raf Vallone). The other (Vittorio Gassmann) spends his time chasing Silvana and plotting to steal the rice harvest. Along the way is a good deal of earthy violence: Silvana gets birched on a roadside ; Doris is nearly mobbed as a scab by her fellow workers; Gassmann is impaled on a meat hook during a fight in a butcher shop...
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