Hand of Death (1949 film)
1950 film by Carlo Campogalliani
Hand of Death or Man of Death (Italian: La mano della morta) is a 1949 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring María Martín, Adriano Rimoldi and Carlo Ninchi. It was shot at the Icet Studios in Milan.
Plot
Cast
María Martín as Satanella
Adriano Rimoldi as conte Orazio Altieri
Carlo Ninchi as Simone Bossi
Renato De Carmine as Flavio Altieri
Germana Paolieri as contessa Altieri
Saro Urzì as zingaro Marco
Marisa Mari as Lucia Altieri
Ernesto Sabbatini
Raffaele Pindinelli as usuraio Schultz
Domenico Viglione Borghese
Lina Volonghi as Carmela Caputo
Marcello Giorda as Direttore d'orchestra
Fernando Farese as Fernando Tibaldi
Silvio Bagolini as Ufficiale
Tina Spezia as Evelina
Gianni Guarnieri as impresario Gemelli
Nerio Bernardi as senatore Tibaldi
Alberto Archetti
Gianni Cavalieri
Egisto Olivieri
Silvana Calvi
Arrigo Peri
Giuliana Pinelli
Nera Bruni
Darma Doriano
Ernesto Nelli
References
Bibliography
Bayman, Louis. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
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