Word: sordi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. Reproductions of vintage aircraft soar blithely skyward bearing Terry-Thomas, Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe to the high points of a flaphappy comedy about a London-Paris air race in 1910-while vixenish Sarah Miles waits in the winners' circle to choose between Stuart Whitman and James...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. Reproductions of vintage aircraft soar blithely skyward bearing Terry-Thomas, Alberto Sordi and Gert Frobe to the high points of a fiaphappy comedy about a London-Paris air race in 1910-while vixenish Sarah Miles waits in the winners' circle to choose between Stuart Whitman and James...
...daredeviltry of Sarah's gallant suitors is challenged by an unseemly horde of opponents, clearly selected as the aces least likely to get off the ground. Italy's representative (Alberto Sordi) brings along his large tearful family to witness every crash, while the Japanese entry (Yujiro Ishihara) pilots a loose assemblage of box kites driven by kamikaze impulses. The flyer in everyone's ointment is England's villainous Sir Percy (Terry-Thomas), who sends his man to saw away struts or detach landing gear on rival planes, a tactic that leads to many a droll...
...inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test flight propels him into their line of fire. Later, when Frobe attempts the channel, flying quite literally by the book, he somehow finds himself suspended at low altitude, treading water. This feat is matched by Terry-Thomas maladroit landing atop an express train bound for Paris-with...
MAFIOSO. Director Alberto Lattuada fills in the background with some gloriously garlicky slices of provincial Sicilian life, while Comedian Alberto Sordi struggles soberly with the insidious Mafia...