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Suor Letizia

Suor Letizia - Some scenes in Ischia 

In Suor Letizia, it tells the story of a nun who returns to Italy after years of missionary work in Africa and is immediately sent to deal with the sale, in Ischia, a decayed convent. The impact of the nun in the island can be summarized by the comment that says, "This is worse than in Africa, sisters". In fact, life is hard work in the fields extreme, the children steal the goats, the fishermen do not have the money to buy the nets, the island is depopulated by emigration". On the Island it is evident that there is still no sign of tourism. Sister Letizia off the vaporetto, solitary, only serves to bring the boat back to Naples or the villagers, who go to work. This film was not appreciated by many critics considered it a melodrama full of affectation.

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  •  Title SUOR LETIZIA
  •  Release date(s) 1956
  •  Other titles IL PIU' GRANDE AMORE
  •  Based on AN IDEA OF ANTONIO ALTOVITI AND GIOSE RIMANELLI
  •  Genre PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA
  •  Production SANDRO PALLAVICINI PER RIZZOLI FILM, PALLAVICINI
  •  Direction MARIO CAMERINI

 

  •   Photography: Gianni Di Venanzo
  •  Editing: Giuliana Attenni
  •  Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

 

PLot

Sister Letizia (Anna Magnani), a nun who has spent twenty years in the African missions and has just returned to Italy, is sent to an island in the Gulf of Naples (Ischia), where a monastery is in a precarious state. She will have to adjust in the best way all the slopes, close the convent and bring the little sisters to the church. While she devoted herself to the task entrusted to her, Sister Letizia knows a poor abandoned child, whose sad fate inspires a deep understanding and Salvatore has no father, his mother Assunta is about to leave him to follow in America Peppino, a worker who promised to marry her on condition that she give up the child. Moved by a feeling of heartfelt piety, Sister Letizia welcomes in the convent Salvatore together with other children will reopen the school, everything is renewed and reborn. The monastery rises to new life. Gradually Sister Letizia feel awake in my heart a feeling unknown, a maternal feeling, which drives her to become attached to particular Salvatore. But soon the Superior calls it, and she has to be separated from his protected, which belongs to his real mother. Sister Letizia went to Naples and convinces Peppino to make adjust his relationship with Assunta and take Salvatore. The separation from his protected is the sister painful, but the future of the child is assured.
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In Island Monster

Island Monster - The most beautiful scenes shot in Ischia 

Many of these films use the island only as a location, as in the case of the film shot in '45, just after the Second World War, "Island Monster" of 1953, directed Roberto Bianco Montero, in which the horror arises by subtraction rather than visionary power, as in the character of this film, sublimated in the collective icon stout and staggering, with his face sewn up, the monster of Frankenstein.

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  •  Title SLAND MONSTER
  •  Release date(s) 1953
  •  Genre DETECTIVE STORY
  •  Running time 90 Min
  •  Production FORTUNATO MISIANO PER ROMANA FILM
  •  Direction ROBERTO BIANCHI MONTERO - FRANK FED

 

  •  Starring: Boris Karloff, Gianni Breschi, Bruna Camerini, Giuseppe Chinnici, Alberto D'Amario, Domenico De Ninno, Angelo Dessy, Jole Fiero, Carlo Duse, Clara Gamberini, Giuseppe Addobbati, Giulio Battiferri, Germana Paolieri
  •  Photography: Augusto Tiezzi
  •  Music: Carlo Innocenzi

 

Plot

An officer of the financial police, Lieutenant Andreani, who has a particular expertise in the fight against drug smugglers, is sent to the island of Ischia, where it is suspected that this form of smuggling has one of the most important towns. No one suspects, however, that the leader of the smugglers is Don Gaetano, the benefactor of the island, the man who founded and maintained at his own expense a hospital for sick children or sickly. The investigations started by Andreani irritate Don Gaetano, who is to induce him to desist kidnap the daughter of Lieutenant. These will not be intimidated and flows into the fight with greater commitment posing as a broker, who wants to negotiate the purchase of drugs, Andreani goes into the den of smugglers, where he finds to his surprise an old acquaintance, the singer Gloria D 'Auro. The woman, however, not the complaint and he can continue in fiction. With the help of Gloria, the child is released; meanwhile Andreani with her around the house, Don Gaetano and stop the smugglers. But the old man manages to escape with the girl, who took over after Gloria mortally wounded. Andreani chasing the offender and with the help of the Czar, the faithful shepherd, fond of the child, is able to capture it, saving her daughter.
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The Crimson Pirate

Scenes from the film The Crimson Pirate 

Of great importance for a wider knowledge of the island, not only in Italy but also abroad, was the making of the film "The Crimson Pirate" released in '52, directed by Robert Siodmak, inspired by some sequences of the swashbuckling film "the Black Pirate", which it is said that back in the '20s, the silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks Sr., had asked the production house to realize in Ischia this film, but the proposal fell into nothingness. It is also noted in the film, an unexpected propensity of Siodmak have the best in the comic acrobatic couple Lancaster - Cravat "invented" by Tourneur for the film "The Legend of the archer to fire".

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  •  Title THE CRIMSON PIRATE
  •  Release date(s) 1952
  •  Genre ADVENTURE FILM
  •  Running time 104 Min
  •  Production HAROLD HECHT/NORMA PICTURES
  •  Direction ROBERT SIODMAK

 

  •  Photography: Otto Heller
  •  Editing: Jack Harris
  •  Music: William Alwyn

 

 

Plot

A pirate brig, under the command of the famous Captain Vallo, catching in the Caribbean Sea a Spanish galleon with arms, ammunition and 200 soldiers under the command of Don José Gruda, sent to fight the rebels of the island Salina, led by El Libre. Vallo decided to sell weapons to the rebels, but in the meantime pretends to accept the proposals of Don José who offers him 50,000 florins to deliver El Libre. The ship arrives at the port: overnight Vallo down to earth with a man of the crew and met Consuelo, daughter of El Libre, from whom he learns that his father is in prison. He promises to get rid of it, with her back on the galleon, where wearing the clothes of Don José, while the sailors wear the uniforms of the soldiers. Taken to the envoy of the King, Vallo can release El Libre and the scientist Prudence, but identified, had to take refuge with others on the galleon. Here the pirates who hoped to sell arms, realizing that Vallo wants to give her the insurgents, mutinied. In the conflict El Libre is killed and Vallo and Prudence, chains, are lowered into a boat and adrift. However, they are saved and landed safely. Having become a rebel leader, Vallo vanquishes opponents, regaining the galleon and free the island (from cinematografo.it ). "Admirable history of one of the many adventures of the famous Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster), undefeated champion of piracy, terror of the Caribbean Sea, thief of treasures and ... hearts. Although the story takes place in the eighteenth century, we see a balloon used in battle, powerful explosives and a submarine. But, being pirates, it would be dangerous to make any objections or questions: do therefore an act of faith, and if you cannot believe everything you think one half "( Novelle FILM, N. 502/1957 ).(Novelle Film, n. 502/1957).
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The Cliff of Sin

"The cliff of sin" of '50, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero, was a film made especially in the municipality of Forio, the unmistakable image of the Church of Soccorso. It tells the story of a woman to ruin an entire country, Ischia. (Mereghetti, 2002). The island is crucial to support the film, which, though attended by Gino Cervi, is quite labile in the plot.

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  •  Title THE CLIFF OF SIN
  •  Release date(s) 1950
  •  Genre DRAMA FILM
  •  Running time  93 Min
  •  Production INTERNATIONAL URANIA FILM
  •  Direction ROBERTO BIANCHI MONTERO

 

  •  Starring: Virginia Balistrieri, Gino Cervi, Augusto Ciabatti, Silvia Fazi, Margaret Genske
  •  Photography: Carlo Nebiolo
  •  Music: Alberto De Castello

 

PLot

Silvano, a man of mature age, sickly and misanthropic, addicted to alcohol, lives alone in his hut. One day reappears in the island Stella, a young woman of dissolute life, which has been the bane of Silvano. She goes to him, trying to seduce him again, but when she sees the old man only wants to hide the stash, causes a dose of medicine so strong as to cause death. Stella is so mistress of the hut and the hoard, and took to the country, manages to seduce Paul, a young fisherman. He, experiencing the charm of the sorceress, neglects his girlfriend and gets involved in shady dealings of a band of smugglers. Michele, suddenly back in the country, imposes Paul to fulfill his promise to his sister, but then surrenders himself to the seduction of Stella, which in turn becomes her lover. Involved in the smuggling, Michele is at first arrested, then released after some time. He went to the hut of Stella, surprises her with Paul, between the two men kindled a violent brawl. Stella, which seeks to foster Michele, is rejected and falls into the sea. Missing the enchantress, the two men are forced to shake hands: the island returns in peace.
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O.K. Agostina

The film "Ok Agostina" of 1949, directed by Luigi Zampa, seems to show the island at that time real enough. Immediately after the war, in fact, in the film, Agostina and Australia landed in Ischia, after receiving the deportation order for being prostitutes, in a landscape still ravaged by war. Life seems to start for them. Ischia is a land of work, where the port cleaning the barrels, probably due to a recovery in exports of "Forastera" typical white wine of the island, it is a poor country where it does not take much to have fun: parties are organized by country races the sack race on the beach. The piles of rubble that mark the landscape are not the only legacy of the war, there is also the sad phenomenon of abandoned: the illegitimate children born as a result of permanent employment of the crew, refused to shame by their mothers, are welcomed in the small church of Santa Maria del Soccorso and caring for them is a priest (Eduardo De Filippo) who must struggle against the insensitivity of the country and in particular of its notables. Inspiration of bad criticism levied in that movie is just the director's position, which - according to Aristarchus - it was believed in duty to take, very clumsily, the defense of the unfortunate victims of venal love against the bourgeois conviction.

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  •  Title Ok Agostina
  •  Release date(s) 1949
  •  Genre Dramatic
  •  Running time  100 min
  •  Production CARLO PONTI PER LA LUX FILM
  •  Direction LUIGI ZAMPA

 

  •  Main actors: Eduardo De Filippo, Gina Lollobrigida,
    Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano
  •  Photography: Carlo Montuori
  •  Editing: Eraldo Da Roma
  •  Music: Nino Rota

 

Plot

Agostina is a maid, that after the war has set out to make a "Miss". Her savings sends them away to the priest of his country, why keep them to him. Left allies, Agostina goes to the country, to withdraw her money. But here is waiting for a nasty surprise. The old priest died and the new one, Don Andrea, not knowing at first in which use is intended that sum, it’s worth to create an orphanage. Now the money have been spent and Don Andrea calls for more help. When she learns the true origin of savings of Agostina, Don Andrea, sick of heart, remains nearly electrocuted. To return at least part of the money, imagine a ruse. He rings the bells and people rushed to declare that no longer has the means to provide for orphans. She has applied unsuccessfully to the mayor to allocate the money collected at the hospice to erect a monument. Now he has to close the hospice and the orphans entrusted to the population. The girls spend the night crying on the steps of the churchyard, but the mayor in the face of protests from the population sends the money to the priest, who wants to deliver Agostina. But she renounces and Don Andrea, for the various emotions, dies. Clearly identifiable various places on the island.

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  • Surface: 46 Kmq
  • Hight: 789 mt
  • Lat.: 40° 44',82 N
  • Long.: 13° 56',58 E
  • Periplus: 18 miglia
  • Coasts: 51.2 Km
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