The Italian

Summary Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to contemplate marriage. To crown it all he is nearly certain to land a senior position at the dealership. But there is a tiny wee problem. The funny Italian is not Italian at all! His real name is Mourad and he is actually of Algerian origin. So, when to please his father (who does not know his son pretends to be Italian), he promises him to celebrate Ramadan he is bound to get into serious trouble... View more details

The Italian

Directed : Olivier Baroux

Written : Olivier Baroux Jean-Paul Bathany Stéphane Ben Lahcene

Stars : Kad Merad Roland Giraud Valérie Benguigui Philippe Lefebvre

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Genres : Comedy Drama

Release date : Jul 13, 2010

Countries of origin : France

Language : French

Filming locations : Casablanca, Morocco

Production companies : M6 Films Pathé Eskwad

Summary Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to contemplate marriage. To crown it all he is nearly certain to land a senior position at the dealership. But there is a tiny wee problem. The funny Italian is not Italian at all! His real name is Mourad and he is actually of Algerian origin. So, when to please his father (who does not know his son pretends to be Italian), he promises him to celebrate Ramadan he is bound to get into serious trouble... View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Drama

Release date : Jul 13, 2010

Countries of origin : France

Language : French

Filming locations : Casablanca, Morocco

Production companies : M6 Films Pathé Eskwad

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Taming the Wild

Taming the Wild

June Bolton (Maxine Doyle) is strong-willed, beautiful, reckless girl,blessed with money and a fond mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bolton (Zella Russell), who knows not the first principle of maternal rule. Emerging from a reckless, on her part, automobile wreck and escaping the police, she is sought by police detectives as she escapes to Los Angeles. Her mother, a passenger aboard the incoming steamship Melolo, learns of June's latest escapade by cable and she wires the family legal adviser, Dick Clayton (Rod LaRocque), to find June and guard her until she arrives home. Clayon catches up with June in a downtown hotel but, already, Jimmy Taylor, a tabloid newspaper reporter, has also located her and headline again threaten the family name. In front of the hotel, June escapes Clayton by jumping into a limousine and rides away with Bret Graham, a charming but vicious racketeer. Clayton follows her to Graham's notorious inn, the Red Mill, where June has instantly acquired the friendship of Hazel White (Barbara Pepper), a dancer. Clayton arrives and he and Graham have a fistfight and,in the confusion, June and Hazel are arrested. Steve McDonald, a Graham henchman, who is in love with Hazel, bails both girls out of jail. The enraged Graham orders Steve to "take Clayton for a one-way ride" but allows Clayton to escape. This enrages Graham to the point that he murders Steve. June now finds herself caught in the midst of Los Angeles crime but more than ever determined to have her fill of adventure. She bitterly resents Clayton's attempts to get her out of the wild-side life, slaps him and dismisses him as her attorney. The resigned and hopeless Clayton does so. Riding with Graham and Hazel, June is a witness as Graham's gangster enemy, Red Hogan (Vincent Dennis) fires a hail of lead into the car, striking the racketeer down, Graham recuperates at a hospital and Junes finds her name in the news again. Hogan determines to silence June and goes to her hotel room. Clayton breaks in as Hogan is overpowering June with brutal strength. Clayton put the gangster down as the police arrive, June laughs. "The man doesn't live who can tame me," she taunts Clayton. Clayton seizes her and takes a hair brush from the dressing table. He then delivers a a sound spanking to June and it has a sobering effect. June calls him back as he is leaving and hands him the spanking brush. "Perhaps,"she tells him, "you'll need it again."

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