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Victor Rietti is a Actor born on 28 february 1888
Victor Rietti (29 February 1888 - 3 December 1963) was an Italian-born actor and director who became known through his work in television, especially through the many live television productions of the Italian play To Live in Peace during the 1950s. He was knighted by the Italian government.
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Victor Rietti
Birth name Vittorio Rietti
Birth 28 february 1888
Death 3 december 1963 (at 75 years)
Birth 28 february 1888
Death 3 december 1963 (at 75 years)
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Filmography of Victor Rietti (17 films)
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Come Fly with Me (1963)
, 1h49Directed by Henry Levin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Dawn Addams
Roles Passenger (cameo)
Rating61%
Three air hostesses, based in New York City, are working for the fictional airline Polar Atlantic Airways. The three serve on a Boeing 707 making regular flights between New York, Paris and Vienna. Along the way, air hostess Donna Stuart (Dolores Hart), meets Baron Franz Von Elzingen (Karlheinz Böhm), an impoverished Austrian baron who turns out to be a diamond smuggler. "Southern belle" Carol Brewster (Pamela Tiffin) develops a crush on the plane's First Officer, Ray Winsley (Hugh O'Brian), who himself is having an affair with a married woman (Dawn Addams). The third air hostess, Hilda "Bergie" Bergstrom, (Lois Nettleton) gets noticed by a multi-millionaire widower from Texas named Walter Lucas (Karl Malden).
The Naked Truth (1957)
, 1h31Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Joan Sims
Roles Doctor
Rating67%
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is a blackmailer who threatens to publish embarrassing secrets in his magazine The Naked Truth. After attempting to blackmail a famous scientist (who commits suicide), and an MP (who suffers a heart attack in parliament, and probably succumbs), his latest targets are Lord Henry Mayley (Terry-Thomas), television host Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), writer Flora Ransom (Peggy Mount), and model Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton).
The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
, 1h43Directed by David Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson, June Clyde, Bessie Love
Roles Signor Gatti
Rating63%
With her marriage to womaniser Carlo Landi (Rossano Brazzi) in ashes, wealthy and childless Margaret Landi (Joan Crawford) finds an emotional outlet in patronizing a 15-year-old deaf, dumb, and blind Irish girl named Esther Costello (Heather Sears). Esther's disabilities are the result of a childhood trauma and are psychosomatic rather than physical. As Costello makes progress with Braille and sign language, she is seen as an example of triumph over adversity. Carlo gets wind of Margaret's new life and re-enters the scene. He views Esther as a source of cheap financial gain and arranges a series of exploitative tours for her under a mercenary manager Frank Wenzel (Ron Randell). One day when Margaret is absent from the Landi apartment, Carlo seduces and rapes the now 16-year-old Esther. The shock restores the girl's sight and hearing. When Margaret learns of her husband's business duplicities and the rape, she consigns Esther to the care of a priest and a young reporter who loves her (Lee Patterson). Margaret then kills Carlo and herself.
Hotel Reserve (1944)
Directed by Mutz Greenbaum, Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Herbert Lom, Martin Miller, Frederick Valk
Roles Restaurant Owner
Rating62%
In 1938, refugee Peter Vadassy (James Mason) decides to take a vacation at the Hotel Reserve to celebrate both his completion of medical school and his impending French citizenship. When he goes to pick up some photographs at the local pharmacy, he is taken away and questioned by Michel Beghin (Julien Mitchell) of French naval intelligence. When his negatives had been developed, some of them turned out to be of French military installations. It is discovered that while the camera is the same make as Peter's, the serial number is different. Peter is released on condition that he find out which other hotel guests have cameras like his.
Give Us the Moon (1944)
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Roland Culver, Jean Simmons, Eliot Makeham, George Relph
Roles Maître d (uncredited)
Rating57%
A young layabout son of a hotel owner becomes involved with a group equally committed to doing no work and tries to join. Perhaps because the theme of people avoiding work was abhorrent to wartime audiences, the film was set in the near future.
Thunder Rock (1942)
, 1h52Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy
Themes Théâtre, Ghost films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer, Finlay Currie, Frederick Valk
Roles Doctor (uncredited)
Rating64%
During the late 1930s, David Charleston (Redgrave) is an ambitious campaigning newspaper journalist, a fierce opponent of fascism and the British policy of appeasement. He wishes to alert his readers to the dangers of German rearmament and the folly of ignoring what is going on in Europe, but the reports he submits are censored by the editor of his newspaper. He subsequently quits his job and sets off on a speaking tour around the country under the slogan "Britain, Awake!" The lack of interest and response indicates that Britain is happy to keep slumbering. The final straw comes when Charleston is at the cinema, and the newsreel feature comes on the screen detailing the German occupation of the Sudetenland. The audience show themselves completely uninterested in the newsreel, taking the opportunity to chat among themselves or go in search of refreshments. In despair at the way his countrymen seem totally oblivious to the ever-more impending doom which is about to engulf them, and appear to be content to go about their daily business as normal while all the time sleepwalking towards disaster, he decides to turn his back on Britain and find a far-flung location where he can withdraw from the world and all its contemporary woes.
21 Days Together (1940)
, 1h12Directed by Basil Dean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Francis L. Sullivan, David Horne, Robert Newton
Roles Antonio
Rating60%
Larry Durrant (Laurence Olivier) is a bit of a disappointment to his family, and even more so when he kills Henry Wallen (Esme Percy), the husband of his lover Wanda (Vivien Leigh). The long-missing Henry shows up on Wanda’s doorstep and threatens to kill her. Larry accidentally kills him in the ensuing fight.
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
, 1h32Directed by Tim Whelan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson, Morton Selten, Gus McNaughton
Roles Hotel Manager
Rating65%
Leslie Steele (Merle Oberon), a guest at a costume party, is forced to stay overnight in a hotel because of a particularly bad London fog. As there are no rooms available, Steele talks her way into sharing a suite with Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier), a handsome but somewhat stiff lawyer. They spend the night together, quite chastely, but Logan becomes convinced that Leslie must be married. His conviction is confirmed when an old school friend, Lord Mere (Ralph Richardson), arrives and asks Everard to represent him in a divorce case against his wife, Lady Claire (Binnie Barnes).
London Melody (1937)
, 1h15Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati, Robert Douglas, Miki Hood, Davina Craig, Arthur Chesney
Roles Waiter
Rating71%
A musical with a trial. One of several Anna Neagle - Tullio Carminati vehicles of the 1930s, London Melody was one of five films directed in 1937 by Neagle's future husband, Herbert Wilcox. This time around, Carminatti is cast as Marius Andreani, a cultured Italian diplomat. While in London on business, Marius makes the chance acquaintance of boisterous cockney street entertainer Jacqueline (Neagle). It's love at first sight, but hero and heroine must undergo a dizzying series of roadblocks and misunderstandings before the climactic clinch. Meanwhile, Jacqueline rises to the top of show-business success, never dreaming (until the end, at least) that it's all the secret handiwork of faithful Marius.
The Ghost Goes West (1936)
, 1h35Directed by René Clair
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Political films
Actors Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester, Patricia Hilliard, Chili Bouchier
Roles Scientist
Rating66%
Peggy Martin (Parker), the daughter of a rich American businessman (Eugene Pallette), persuades him to purchase a Scottish castle from Donald Glourie (Robert Donat), dismantle it and move it to Florida. Along with the castle goes its ghost.
Jack of All Trades (1936)
, 1h16Directed by Robert Stevenson, Jack Hulbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Mary Jerrold, Cecil Parker, Athole Stewart, Felix Aylmer
Roles Head Waiter
Rating59%
Jack, out of work and responsible for an aged mother, takes a succession of jobs, bluffing his way through them all.
Juggernaut (1936)
, 1h4Directed by Henry Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Boris Karloff, Arthur Margetson, Mona Goya, Morton Selten, Nina Boucicault, Gibb McLaughlin
Roles Doctor Bousquet
Rating48%
Victor Sartorius (Karloff) is an ailing doctor working in Morocco. He teams up with Lady Yvonne Clifford (Mona Goya) in a plot to poison her husband, Sir Charles Clifford (Morton Selten), so he can collect the 20,000 pounds necessary to save his experiments and his funding. Roger Clifford (Arthur Margetson), the son of Sir Charles has also been marked for death. The only one who can stop the murder plot of Sartorius is Nurse Eve Rowe (Joan Wyndham).
Where There's a Will (1936)
, 1h20Directed by William Beaudine, John Putch
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Will Hay, Frank Whaley, Keith Carradine, Graham Moffatt, Christine Elise, Norma Varden
Roles Maître D
Rating62%
Dusty Ermine (1936)
, 1h24Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sports films, Films based on plays
Actors Anthony Bushell, Jane Baxter, Margaret Rutherford, Ronald Squire, Austin Trevor, Davina Craig
Roles Luggage Snatcher (uncredited)
Rating62%
After being released from prison Jim Kent, a leading forger, is approached by an international counterfeiting organisation. He rejects their offer of employment as he intends to go straight, but when he discovers that his nephew is now working for the outfit he travels to Switzerland to try and help him out. An ambitious young detective from Scotland Yard is also on the trail of the forgery ring, and mistakenly comes to the conclusion that Jim Kent is still working as a master counterfeiter.
Escape Me Never (1935)
, 1h35Directed by Paul Czinner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Elisabeth Bergner, Griffith Jones, Hugh Sinclair, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Rosalinde Fuller, Victor Rietti
Roles Shopkeeper
Rating55%