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The first scene in Giuseppe De Santis’ 1949 film Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) is at Turin train station. Waves of women, of all ages, make their way across the tracks to board a train for Vercelli and 40 days of work as seasonal rice paddy workers known as
mondine. Also in the throng is petty thief Walter (Vittorio Gassman) and his accomplice, Francesca (Doris Dowling), who are on the run from the police after stealing a necklace. Having tracked the waves of women, the camera chases the couple as they try to escape and infiltrate the mondine, then glides through the packed train before focusing back on the platform and a young mondina called Silvana (played by the magnificent and indolent Silvana Mangano), who is dancing.
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The Explosive Story of a Very Bungled Stunt in The Italian Job
An Aston Martin DB4, a cliff, and some explosives made for a stunt gone very wrong.
By Matthew Field
Little ephemera from filming
The Italian Job survived production. But an original, leather-bound copy of the script belonging to a crewmember revealed a tantalizing mystery. Hidden inside the script’s pages was a folded wire message that simply read: “Peter confirms Aston should go straight over cliff without teetering Michael Deeley.”
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The Godfather, Part III offers a certain promise. It presents the expectation of a ruthless Michael Corleone center stage, waging war to protect his business at all costs, focused on The Family as much or more than his own family. After two highly successful films carrying the title, itâs understandable that an audience would come to expect the familiar and be turned off by the uncertain. Itâs even more understandable that an audience would be confused by a film whose makers had no intention of continuing in that vein, which is why director/writer Francis Ford Coppola and author Mario Puzo wished to call their film
.The cast of 1990 s The Godfather Part III is shown in a scene in a recut version, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, from director and co-writer Francis Ford Coppola. (CNS photo/courtesy Paramount)
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NEW YORK (CNS) Long reviled as a pale afterthought compared to its two predecessors, 1990 s The Godfather Part III (Paramount) is now available in in a recut version, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, from director and co-writer Francis Ford Coppola.
For those who have not seen it, or haven t viewed it in some time, it s a reminder that although mobster dramas that draw on events of the past can be engrossing, historical truth always loses out in the process.
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