Defendant, Stand Up!
1939 film
- 13 October 1939 (1939-10-13)
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Defendant, Stand Up! (Italian: Imputato, alzatevi!) is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario, Ernesto Almirante and Greta Gonda.[1] It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[2]
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.
Plot
Italy, late 1930s. Cipriano, nurse and handyman in the pediatric clinic of a doctor his foster brother, is wrongly accused of having committed a murder. The process, however, proves his innocence, and Cipriano become so popular as to obtain a theatrical writing for a show that tells the true story of the murder. But the culprit is still there.
Cast
- Erminio Macario as Cipriano Duval
- Leila Guarni as Giorgetta
- Ernesto Almirante as André Copersche, il presidente del tribunal
- Greta Gonda as La cantante afona
- Enzo Biliotti as L'avvocato Gaveneau
- Carlo Rizzo as Il medico
- Armando Migliari as Il ladro Vetriolo
- Lola Braccini as La portinaia
- Arturo Bragaglia as Il proprietario del tabarin 'Mariette'
- Felice Romano as Il commissario
- Lauro Gazzolo as L'uomo dagli schiaffi
References
Bibliography
- Ernesto G. Laura. Comedy Italian Style. A.N.I.C.A., 1981.
External links
- Defendant, Stand Up! at IMDb
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- I Love You Only (1935)
- The Man Who Smiles (1936)
- Sette giorni all'altro mondo (1936)
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- The Last Days of Pompeo (1937)
- These Children (1937)
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- Destiny (1938)
- Triumph of Love (1938)
- Nonna Felicità (1938)
- A Lady Did It (1938)
- The Lady in White (1938)
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- We Were Seven Widows (1939)
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- Lo vedi come sei... lo vedi come sei? (1939)
- Abandonment (1940)
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- Non me lo dire! (1940)
- Light in the Darkness (1941)
- Schoolgirl Diary (1941)
- I Live as I Please (1942)
- Invisible Chains (1942)
- The Three Pilots (1942)
- The Lady Is Fickle (1942)
- Labbra serrate (1942)
- Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)
- The Valley of the Devil (1943)
- Lively Teresa (1943)
- Anything for a Song (1943)
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- Life Begins Anew (1945)
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- The Two Orphans (1947)
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- Fear and Sand (1948)
- Cab Number 13 (1948)
- Assunta Spina (1948)
- Little Lady (1949)
- The Firemen of Viggiù (1949)
- Adam and Eve (1949)
- Totò Tarzan (1950)
- The Merry Widower (1950)
- The Elusive Twelve (1950)
- The Cadets of Gascony (1950)
- Toto the Sheik (1950)
- Toto the Third Man (1951)
- The Steamship Owner (1951)
- Arrivano i nostri (1951)
- My Heart Sings (1951)
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- Five Paupers in an Automobile (1952)
- Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
- Neapolitan Turk (1953)
- Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
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- The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
- Poverty and Nobility (1954)
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- Eighteen Year Olds (1955)
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- Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics (1958)
- Move and I'll Shoot (1958)
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- Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
- Non perdiamo la testa (1959)
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- Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)
- Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961)
- Appuntamento in riviera (1962)
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- Corpse for the Lady (1964)
- For a Few Dollars Less (1966)
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