Sometimes dismissed as low-quality escapist fare, the Peplums allowed newer directors such as Sergio Leone and Mario Bava, a means of breaking into the film industry.

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

During the 1960s and 70s, Italian filmmakers Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda, Antonio Margheriti and Dario Argento developed giallo horror films that become classics and influenced the genre in other countries.

In France, Eyes Without a Face ( 1960 ) continued the mad scientist theme, while in Italy director Mario Bava began his own series of horror films.

Mario Bava is considered the progenitor of the genre, and his 1963 film The Girl Who Knew Too Much is considered the first giallo film.

* Mario Bava's 1971 film, Twitch of the Death Nerve ( aka Carnage ), written by Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello and Filippo Ottoni, features dialogue around the 10-minute mark describing the squonk and its attributes.

Cunningham, inspired by John Carpenter's Halloween, and films by Mario Bava, wanted Friday the 13th to be shocking, visually stunning and " you jump out of your seat ".

Argento subsequently took a break from directing to write two screenplays for Mario Bava's son, Lamberto Bava: Dèmoni ( 1985 ) and Dèmoni 2 ( 1986 ).

* The Whip and the Body ( La Frusta e il Corpo ) ( 1963 ), directed by Mario Bava and starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi

* Italian director and cinematographer Mario Bava was born in Sanremo in 1914.

The Anthony Quinn film Attila ( directed by Pietro Francisci in 1954 ), the Kirk Douglas epic Ulysses ( co-directed by an uncredited Mario Bava in 1954 ) and Helen of Troy ( directed by Robert Wise with Sergio Leone as an uncredited second unit director in 1955 ) were the first of the big peplum films of the 1950s.

* Hercules in the Haunted World ( Ercole al centro della terra / Hercules at the Center of the Earth ) 1961 ( directed by Mario Bava ) starring Reg Park

* Erik the Conqueror ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Gli Invasori / The Invaders, directed by Mario Bava, starring Cameron Mitchell

* Knives of the Avenger ( 1967 ) a. k. a. Viking Massacre, directed by Mario Bava

* Odyssey, The ( 1968 ) Cyclops segment directed by Mario Bava ; Samson Burke played the Cyclops

* Odyssey, The ( 1968 ) Cyclops segment directed by Mario Bava ; Samson Burke played Polyphemus the Cyclops

* Erik the Conqueror ( 1961 ) a. k. a. The Invaders, directed by Mario Bava, starring Cameron Mitchell

* Knives of the Avenger ( 1967 ) Cameron Mitchell, directed by Mario Bava

Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani, Nanni Moretti, Jacques Doillon, Mario Bava, Manoel de Oliviera, Raul Ruiz, Theodoros Angelopoulos and Alain Resnais.

A few examples include Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) directed by Mario Bava, Identity ( 2003 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), made-for-television films ( Dead Man's Island, 1996 ), a miniseries ( Harper's Island, 2009 ), and episodic television such as The Avengers (" The Superlative Seven "), The Wild Wild West (" The Night of The Tottering Tontine ") both from 1967, and Remington Steele (" Steele Trap ") in 1982.

The first important film in this genre is Blood and Black Lace ( 1964 ) directed by Mario Bava.

Giallo films that follow a murder mystery format include Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) by Mario Bava, three by director Dario Argento: The Cat o ' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet ( both 1971 ), and Deep Red ( 1975 ) – as well as A Lizard in a Woman's Skin ( 1971 ), Black Belly of the Tarantula ( 1971 ), Who Saw Her Die?

Mario Bava ( 31 July 1914 – 25 April 1980 ) was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist and cinematographer, remembered as one of the greatest names from the " golden age " of Italian horror films, and is considered to have kick-started the giallo film genre.

Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria.

At age 24, Fermi took a professorship at the University of Rome ( one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy ) which he won in a competition whose selection committee was chaired by Professor Orso Mario Corbino, director of the Institute of Physics.

** Mario Van Peebles, American actor and director

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When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei ), starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film.

His colleagues included Oscar D ' Agostino, Emilio Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi, Ettore Majorana and Enrico Fermi, as well as the director Orso Mario Corbino.

The Godfather DVD Collection was released on October 9, 2001 in a package that contained all three films — each with a commentary track by Coppola — and a bonus disc that featured a 73-minute documentary from 1991 entitled The Godfather Family: A Look Inside and other miscellany about the film: the additional scenes originally contained in The Godfather Saga ; Francis Coppola's Notebook ( a look inside a notebook the director kept with him at all times during the production of the film ); rehearsal footage ; a promotional featurette from 1971 ; and video segments on Gordon Willis's cinematography, Nino Rota's and Carmine Coppola's music, the director, the locations and Mario Puzo's screenplays.

Mario Adorf was considered for the part of Mapache ; the role went to Emilio Fernández, the Mexican film director and actor and friend of Peckinpah.

According to Bobby Sanabria, the 3-2, 2-3 concept and terminology was developed in New York City during the 1940s by Cuban-born Mario Bauzá, when he was music director of Machito's Afro-Cubans.

The letter was signed by 34 prominent figures in the U. S. entertainment industry, including the top executives of MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as actors Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, director Oliver Stone, writers Mario Puzo and Gore Vidal and talk-show host Larry King.

However, he did not appear in Mario Kart 7, explained by Kosuke Yabuki ( the game's director ) as due to " the game's charm.

The development of Super Mario 64 took less than two years, but it was reported that producer and director Shigeru Miyamoto had conceived of a 3D Mario game concept over five years before, while working on Star Fox.

Like its predecessor, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2 was created by director Hiroji Kiyotake rather than Mario series creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

He played Doctor Alfieri in an Anglo-Italian Columbia Pictures comedy Five Golden Hours under director Mario Zampi, alongside Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders.

" Before long, Buñuel was working for Epstein as an assistant director on Mauprat ( 1926 ) and La chute de la maison Usher ( 1928 ), and also for Mario Nalpas on La Sirène des Tropiques ( 1927 ), starring Josephine Baker.

The judges consisted of Dutch entertainer Simone Angel, concert booker Mario M. Mendryzcki and Rainer Moslener, an A & R director of Polydor Records.

* The novel Black Box, written by Mario Giordano and inspired by the experiment, was adapted for the screen in 2001 by German director Oliver Hirschbiegel as Das Experiment.

Lanier was the director of an experimental short film, and teamed with Mario Grigorov to compose the soundtrack to the documentary film, The Third Wave ( 2007 ).