The Actor Who Disappeared
1941 film
- 2 June 1941 (1941-06-02)
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The Actor Who Disappeared (Italian: L'attore scomparso) is a 1941 Italian comedy mystery crime film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Vivi Gioi, María Mercader and Giulio Donadio. It is a remake of the German film Was wird hier gespielt? (1940) based on the eponymous play by Theo Lingen.[1] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Giorgio Pinzauti.
Synopsis
A young actor, frustrated by the negligible roles he keeps being cast in, plans a hoax. The play he is appearing in, involves his character being shot dead while hiding in a cupboard by an outraged husband. However, when the door is opened he has completely vanished forcing the management to return the audience's money. However, one of the spectators, a police officer had received an anonymous letter claiming that a murder was to take place at that theatre that night and begins an investigation.
Cast
- Vivi Gioi as L'attrice
- María Mercader as L'attrice ingenua
- Stefano Sibaldi as L'attore
- Giulio Donadio as Il commissario de polizia
- Carlo Campanini as L'altro attore
- Lauro Gazzolo as L'impresario
- Bianca Della Corte as La figlia
- Maria Jacobini as La madre
- Virgilio Riento as Il trovarobe
- Arturo Bragaglia as Il suggeritore
- Carlo Lombardi as Il "grande" attore
- Manoel Roero as Il regista
- Valentina Cortese as Minor role
References
- ^ "L'attore scomparso". MyMovies. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
Bibliography
- Curti, Roberto. Italian Giallo in Film and Television: A Critical History. McFarland, 2022.
- Moliterno, Gino. The A to Z of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- The Actor Who Disappeared at IMDb
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Films directed by Luigi Zampa
- The Actor Who Disappeared (1940)
- C'è sempre un ma! (1942)
- The Adventures of Fra Diavolo (1942)
- Signorinette (1942)
- L'abito nero da sposa (1945)
- A Yank in Rome (1946)
- To Live in Peace (1947)
- Angelina (1947)
- Difficult Years (1948)
- Alarm Bells (1949)
- Children of Chance (1949)
- The White Line (1950)
- His Last Twelve Hours (1950)
- Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
- The City Stands Trial (1952)
- We, the Women (1953)
- Easy Years (1953)
- Of Life and Love (1954)
- Woman of Rome (1954)
- The Art of Getting Along (1955)
- Girls of Today (1955)
- Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
- The Love Specialist (1958)
- The Magistrate (1959)
- The Traffic Policeman (1960)
- Roaring Years (1962)
- Shivers in Summer (1963)
- A Question of Honour (1965)
- I nostri mariti (1966)
- Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
- Anyone Can Play (1968)
- Let's Have a Riot (1970)
- A Girl in Australia (1971)
- Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)
- The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
- Il mostro (1977)
- Tigers in Lipstick (1979)
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