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The story has its lapses and the film its faults. Actor Quinn, though generally effective, sometimes sounds more like a punk out of Cicero than a hood from the Holy Land. And Director Richard Fleischer, impelled by Producer Dino de Laurentiis, has wasted time on spectacle that had more usefully...
But war and rough-and-tumble reconstruction made way for new men and new ideas. Wily Dino de Laurentiis, who has revitalized Italy's film industry by making movies (War and Peace, Attila) with international casts and the specific purpose of tapping international markets, is the son of a...
Sandhurst-trained David Niven never lets down the light comedy side of officership. As Blasi, Sordi lacks comic bite, and tends to be more laughed at than with. Director de Laurentiis seems to abide by some central-casting Geneva Convention that national stereotypes are immutable. The English are natty, tightlipped...
$54,545 a Word. A middle-sized man behind heavy black glasses, Dino de Laurentiis, 42, is an unlikely figure for the duce of Italian cinema. At 16 he won a scholarship at a motion picture school, ducked out of his family's prosperous spaghetti-making business, and came...
Despite this single failure in judgment, De Laurentiis has made so much money that his personal income now runs about $10 million a year. And largely because of him, the Italian film industry-which in its first postwar years could barely afford a Shoeshine-now looks more like Hollywood than...