Hell in the City
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Renato Castellani
Casts & Crew
Anna Magnani
Giulietta Masina
Myriam Bru
Cristina Gaïoni
Anita Durante
Milly
Marcella Rovena
Miranda Campa
Saro Urzì
Renato Salvatori
Alberto Sordi
Marcella Valeri
Angela Portaluri
Umberto Spadaro
Sergio Fantoni
Gina Rovere
Alba Maiolini
Marisa Natale
Mara Oscuro
Ada Passari
Paola Piscini
Pia Velsi
Also Directed by Renato Castellani
A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.
An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Inspired by a real-life event that took place in Calabria at the end of World War 2, the film is the story of a young farmer who led peasants to revolt, after being falsely accused of murder.