
Nora Orlandi
Sound
Biography
Nora Orlandi, also known by the pseudonym Joan Christian (Voghera, June 28, 1933 – Rome, January 1, 2025), was a versatile and fundamental figure in Italian music, distinguishing herself as a singer, pianist, violinist, and composer. Raised in a family of artists, she graduated in composition, harmony, and singing from the Conservatory of Genoa. Her career took off in 1951 in Rome when she was hired as a violinist in the RAI Orchestra under the direction of Pippo Barzizza, later collaborating with masters such as Lelio Luttazzi and Bruno Canfora. After a phase as a soloist characterized by a melodic style with jazz influences, she founded the Quartetto 2 + 2 in 1952. The definitive evolution came with the creation of I 4 + 4 di Nora Orlandi, an iconic vocal group that became a pillar of Italian record and television productions, also participating in films. Nora Orlandi was one of the few women to establish herself as a soundtrack composer, excelling particularly in the Western genre. In 1966, she received the Critics' Prize for the soundtrack of Johnny Yuma. She also collaborated with Armando Trovajoli in writing lyrics and was the author of numerous successful advertising jingles. In the 1980s, she disbanded the vocal group to dedicate herself to teaching. She wrote an influential Modern Singing Method and brought her experience to television as a teacher in the second edition of Amici di Maria De Filippi. She passed away in Rome on January 1, 2025, followed shortly after by her sister Paola, also a singer-songwriter.
Known For

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.
$10,000 for a Massacre

After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.
Double Face

Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father's murder. They suspect a number of people in the town of Owell Rock and hire a professional gunfighter to help them in their quest for vengeance... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Death at Owell Rock

Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.
Johnny Yuma

A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
The Sweet Body of Deborah

A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
The Double

French documentary on the Spaghetti Western genre, with numerous interviews.
Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Clint Harrison is a gunfighter who has been on the run from a vengeful family for years. He returns to his home town to discover that his wife has taken his son and fled north to escape his unsavory reputations. Following her in an attempt to make amends, he rides into the middle of a land-grab war between a group of desperate farmers and an unscrupulous rancher named Shannon and his brutal foreman. Promising his wife that he won't use this gun, Clint must stand by as Shannon's men eliminate the farmer's in a series of well-staged set pieces calculated to make the audience anticipate the inevitable moment when Clint is forced to turn his guns and settle accounts.
Clint the Stranger

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
The Career of a Chambermaid

Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now.
Vengeance Is Mine

Fulgencio and Scott fled the place where they have just committed a robbery. As Fulgencio scapes, Scott is captured by the police. After serving years in prison, Scott looks for his former partner who fled to Mexico and, with the money, bought a bar. Scott's plan is to force Fulgencio, under threat of denouncing him, to work with him in another robbery.
Night of Hate

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Non vogliamo morire

Written and directed by Sergio Pastore in 1969. Il diario proibito di Fanny is an anthology film starring Giovanna Lenzi as four different women, all named Fanny. The film touches upon all the hot-button issues of 1968: illegal immigrants from the Eastern bloc, the Prague Spring, the Italian star cult and even abortion.
Secret Diary of Fanny

Thanks to his ability, Danny can draw each of the bandits who robbed the stage coach in which he was traveling with his father, who was killed. When he arrives to the next town he looks for a job helped by the sheriffs` daughter. In the bulletin board there are some posters of people and they offer a dollar reward for providing information about them. After many obstacles, each of the components of the band gradually disappears. Danny believes that only fits the sheriff, but he is in love with his daughter.
Prey of Vultures

Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact with Ms Beckett, who should tell him. Segura's intentíons, but the woman is found killed. Subsequently, Rogerson, another American, presents Cooper to Segura himself and so Rod can enter his organization. Here he discovers that the colonel tries to attract a certain number of Americans to use them in an attack against the president of a state of southern America and thus promote communist expansion. Segura soon discovers Rod's real identity and tries to get rid of him; but the agent manages to reverse the situation and kills Segura in a shoot-out.
The Beckett Affair

A gunman teams up with a small time sheriff to rob a shipment of gold.
Sheriff With the Gold

Rare interview of Sergio Martino and Edwige Fenech (with Luciano Martino, Ernesto Gastaldi & George Hilton) discussing their film The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
Dark Fears Behind the Door

A woman from Czechoslovakia escapes her homeland after the occupation by the armies of Warsaw pact to Italy to tell the tale...
Una ragazza di Praga

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