Roberto Pistone

Italian TV adaptation of John Dickson Carr's mystery novel Fire, Burn! (1957).

Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tartarino sulle Alpi was broadcast by Rai, directed by Edmo Fenoglio, with Tino Buazzelli as the protagonist. The series was broadcast between 06/09/968 and 09/27/1968.

Ismael, tired of the troubles of life on land, decides to sign on as a sailor—but not on a merchant ship as usual, rather on a whaling vessel, accompanied by his faithful friend Queequeg. The two, despite the ominous warnings of the eccentric Elijah, choose Captain Ahab’s Pequod and his three officers—Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask—who are, despite themselves, subjugated by the captain’s monomaniacal obsession: to kill the white whale Moby Dick, who once tore off his leg.