Word: luca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will star Irish Actor Kieron Moore as the wily outlaw, with possibly Anna Magnani or Silvana Mangano supplying the love interest. If neither cinemactress is signed, a beauty contest will be held to find a sweetheart for Giuliano. For expert details, Producer Scott hopes to call on Colonel Ugo Luca, who baited publicity-lover Giuliano by disguising his troops as moviemen filming a bandit picture...
Many a parent with a homebred Agostino or Luca agonizing about the house may find Moravia's insights more useful than pounds of professional psychological jabberwocky...
Fifteen-year-old Luca, hero of the second story, runs into another kind of adolescent trouble. Gangling, oversensitive, growing ahead of his mental and physical strength, he is not strong enough to take the shocks life has to offer. The girl of his first grown-up affair almost seduces him back to a love of life. But when he goes to keep their first rendezvous he finds her ill, and within a few days she is dead. He takes refuge in psychosomatic illness, until a gentle, understanding nurse helps him to manhood and to a courageous acceptance of the human...
Probing the hills and villages, Luca and his men identified one bandit after another, painstakingly weaned peasants away from their hero worship of Giuliano. Some of the bandits surrendered. When word got around that Luca treated them well, others followed, 76 in all. The carabinieri shot seven more on the hills and arrested 157. As the band scattered, some of the leaders fled to other lands, but the bandit king himself remained in Sicily...
...months ago, Luca heard that Giuliano was moving down from the hills towards the vineyards of the south. The colonel ordered all his men in the area out of uniform and let it-be known that he himself was off to Rome. Then he baited a trap for Giuliano's vanity. He sent a troop of carabinieri into the wine district camouflaged as a moving picture unit. They were ordered to spread the word that they were making a picture about bandits. The unit was told to drop strong hints that a leading role might be available for Giuliano...