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Word: theodoli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nero (Niccolo Theodoli; Italian Film Export) is the first of what may be a cycle of foreign films ribbing American movies.** This Italian production, with English dubbed in, is a satire on the type of superspectacle exemplified by Hollywood's Quo Vadis. If Quo Vadis was one of the costliest ($6,500,000) movies ever made, O.K. Nero is certainly one of the silliest. It has knockdown clowning, pratfalls, songs, dances, and an existentialist ballet. Constantly rowdy, it is only intermittently funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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