Silvio Siano
Directing
Biography
Silvio Siano was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his work in the mid-20th century. Born in Naples, he began his career in the Italian film industry as an assistant director before transitioning to directing and writing. Siano directed several films, including La legge della mafia (1965) and Il lungo giorno della violenza (1971), which explored themes of crime and justice. His films are characterized by their gritty realism and exploration of moral dilemmas. Siano's contributions to Italian cinema reflect the socio-political climate of his time, offering audiences a glimpse into the complexities of Italian society.
Known For
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.
Speed Driver
A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.
Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.
San Babila-8 P.M.
Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder corporation. Acampora (Mario Merola) is believed to be the prime suspect although he later proves to be one of the mafia's targets. As if all that wasn't enough, Paolo has to face his own nephew who seems to be involved in all sorts of dirty business.
Hunted City
Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...
Five Women for the Killer
Rudy Wallace arrives home to take over the family ranch as his father was killed by cattle baron Morrison. Morrison wants no competition and instructs all other ranchers not to sell Rudy any cattle. A sheriff has followed Rudy to arrest him as an accomplice in a series of holdups but eventually finds out that Rudy is innocent and helps him defeat the crooked Morrison. Filmed back-to-back with Damned Pistols of Dallas
Three Dollars of Lead
Two episodes on the theme of love and death. In the first, set in nineteenth-century Russia, we have a vehement passion that a family feud turns into tragedy. The second is a Boccaccio comedy in contemporary Sicily.
Virginity
Susy, a call girl from Milan, receives a castle as a gift from one of her old clients, Baron Colletta di Sant'Omero. When she arrives, she is mistaken for the widow of the deceased squire and is immediately surrounded by the mayor, members of the town council, and other people who all aspire to take over the dilapidated property for little money, whose future is guaranteed by the industrial expansion of the Calabrian village. Susy realizes the situation and astutely takes advantage of it. She manages to obtain the unanimous vote of the city council against the expropriation of her land, and, having duped all her suitors, she devotes herself to Corrado, a technician at some important factories in the area.
La vedovella
After leaving the reformatory where they spent their childhood, three boys begin their journey in life. The protagonist ends up becoming a criminal, but is finally redeemed by another of his former classmates, who has become a priest.
Saranno uomini
Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
Night Police Station
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
Lo sgarro
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Napoli eterna canzone
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La donnaccia
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Soli per le strade
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Fuoco nero
An Italian film from 1956, directed by Silvio Siano.