Adolfo Celi

Grand Prix -- Oscar-winning editing and sound propel this action-packed look at the intertwining lives of four competitive Grand Prix race car drivers.

The Agony and the Ecstasy -- The story of the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, as well as its commissioning by Pope Julius II.

A young reformed drug-addict turned successful author, whose work concerns the hellish life of a junkie, decides to investigate his aunt's murder in Pompeii. After the indifference of the authorities (who think he's just a junkie hallucinating), threatening phone calls, and paranoiac suspicions, he has a nervous breakdown.

"Von Ryan's Express" features a troop of allied soldiers trying to break away from a prison camp in Italy. While the majority of the prisoners at the camp are British, a strong-minded, quick-witted American Air Force colonel takes charge and leads the escape, which requires that the prisoners to sneak onto a German train bound for Switzerland. Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a hazardous escape from the Germans in Italy by taking over the German train. Having apparently made errors of judgment, Ryan has to earn the support of the British soldiers he is commanding.

This fourth James Bond installment finds the world threatened with destruction....Sean Connery's fourth turn as indestructible Agent 007 finds him in pursuit of Largo, SPECTRE's mastermind. Largo has hijacked two atomic warheads and a NATO jet during a NATO training mission, and threatens to nuke two English or American cities...if $280 million in ransom is not paid by the British by a certain date. Based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham and on the original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming.

Sean Connery, is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as an OPEC member. One by one, the leaders of the oil cartel are assassinated.

Sean Connery, is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as an OPEC member. One by one, the leaders of the oil cartel are assassinated.

After a small-time Italian pimp is framed for the theft of a shipment of heroin bound for the U.S., two American gunmen come to Milan looking for him. Meanwhile, the hoods who stole the dope try to kill him to prevent him from revealing the truth.

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the barefoot monk from Assisi undoubtedly had the courage that comes from deep faith and was able to transcend the oppressiveness of the time. In this Italian/British-produced film, director Franco Zeffirelli attempts to bring his vision of this great man to the screen. The contemporary (1970s) example of the hippie movement contributed a great deal to the style in which the story is told. The musical score, using ancient Italian melodies, was arranged by Donovan. The film is visually beautiful in a way which tends to minimize the squalor of the times. As the movie begins, Francis (Graham Faulkner) is the son of wealthy merchants, and enjoys his share of wine, women and song without serious thought. When war and disease devastate his neighborhood, Francis undergoes an anguished transformation which culminates in his appearing before the local bishop and removing his clothes to renounce his previous life and family before dedicating himself to God. The culminating dramatic moment is Francis' appearance before Pope Innocent III (Sir Alec Guinness), to make his case for an independent religious order under new rules.

St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying.

St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying.