His Last Twelve Hours
1951 film
- 14 February 1951 (1951-02-14)
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Italy
His Last Twelve Hours (French: Pour l'amour du ciel, Italian: È più facile che un cammello...) is a 1951 French-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jean Gabin, Mariella Lotti and Elli Parvo.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. It was shot at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia near Cinecittà in Rome.[2]
Plot
Died in a car accident, the wealthy footwear industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil when he was alive. Defending himself from the accusation in a passionate harangue, however, he manages to get back to earth for a few hours, in order to repair the evil committed and above all the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's attempted suicide.
Cast
- Jean Gabin as Carlo Bacchi
- Mariella Lotti as Margot, Bacchi's wife
- Julien Carette as Amedeo Santini
- Elli Parvo as Lidia Guidi, Bacchi's friend
- Antonella Lualdi as Maria
- Antonietta Pietrosi as Anna, Carlo Bacchi's daughter
- Paola Borboni as Luisa
- Carlo Sposito as The Duke Sorino
- Marga Cella as Mrs. Gigliosi
- Fausto Guerzoni as A worker
- Piero Pastore as A working trade unionist
- Dante Maggio as The cobbler
- Enrico Luzi as Witness of the accident
- Dino Raffaelli as Giuseppe
- Bella Starace Sainati as Luisa, Bacchi's aunt
- Bice Valori as Witness of the accident
References
- ^ Hal Erickson (2011). "New York Times: His Last Twelve Hours". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
- ^ Chiti & Poppi p.139
Bibliography
- Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
External links
- His Last Twelve Hours 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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