Word: sica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof (De Sica; Trans-Lux) is one of the few memorable films produced in almost a decade by the once-daring Italian movie industry. In ailing postwar Italy, cinema was briefly practiced as a kind of social medicine. But the would-be healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief...
...overnight on empty lots in Rome, and may not legally be torn down if they have a door and a roof by the time the police arrive in the morning. The rest of the picture describes the young couple's struggle to acquire by criminal conspiracy what De Sica obviously feels to be theirs by natural right: a roof over their heads...
Entitled The Bigamist, this Italian film might be called No Noise is Good Noise. It features Vittorio de Sica as "an eloquent but absent-minded wind-bag lawyer who can't tell a tort from a tortoni." Though Mr. de Sica takes his limited role firmly by the tail, he overshakes it until it becomes disappointing...
Hundreds of U.S. and European employees of the oil companies were herded protectively into company compounds, but it was hard to say what they were being protected from. "Mucha música pero poca ópera," said a grizzled engineer, quoting the old Nicaraguan proverb: Lots of noise but little action. Although most of the $125 million worth of oil installations had been prudently shut down several days before the invasion, one U.S. contracting company, disregarding the war, kept right at work on a road and pipeline linking the oilfields with the seacoast. Caltex announced that, with government permission...
...starts when a couple of aging land sharks move into the well-known European water hole and try to put the bite on each other. He (Vittorio De Sica) is a rentless wreck of an Italian nobleman named Conte Dino della Fiaba (Count Fib). She (Marlene Dietrich) is an enchantress who has come full Circe and now finds herself with nothing to her name but a title, Marquise Maria de Crevecoeur (Lady Heartbreak). She thinks he's rich, he thinks she's rich, and it all makes a pleasant little comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes...