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Word: sordi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...Alberto Sordi brings his sunny southern warmth to this Italian comedy about a frisky fur merchant who discovers firsthand that sex in Stockholm is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 24, 1964 | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Everybody Go Home. Alberto Sordi is fairly funny in a fairly funny comedy about Italy's armed farces during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 14, 1962 | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...months in Italian history. On Sept. 3, the Allies cross from Sicily; on Sept. 8, the Badoglio government surrenders; on Sept. 10, the Germans start to take over; on Sept. 12, Mussolini escapes and sets up as a German puppet. Like most of his countrymen Lieut. Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi) gets dizzy on the seesaw of events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Is Heh-Heh-Hell | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror, like flint against steel, and hope that sparks will fly. Now and then they do, but usually they don't; and they don't because the humor is too mild, too healthy, too Italian. Director Comencini might as well be striking flint against ravioli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Is Heh-Heh-Hell | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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