Latest / 70 80 / SETTANTAxOTTANTA: 1966. Le spie, il telefilm americano portafortuna di Enzo Cerusico. Recita assieme a Raffaella Carrà
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- 1:01I'm with the journalist Enzo Mauri, who introduces
- 1:04today's topic. Good morning, today I'm talking
- 1:07to you about a particular telefilm. Let's admit
- 1:09it, the American telefilm The Spies, in Italy
- 1:11they remember it in few, yet among the elements
- 1:14that in the 60s distinguished it from production
- 1:17of the same type, some have to do with our country.
- 1:30Transmitted by NBC between 1965 and 1968 for
- 1:35a total of three seasons and 82 episodes, The
- 1:38Spies followed the trend of the period that saw
- 1:40most American and British television products
- 1:44make their way to the films of James Bond. The
- 1:46Spies in reality immediately distinguished itself
- 1:48for some fundamental characteristics, it was
- 1:50based first of all on realism and in the episodes
- 1:53non comparivano agg hipertecnologici, cattivi
- 1:56stravaganti e humorismo forzato. This guy is
- 2:04a European national, man. Thank you, Venice.
- 2:51Protagonists of the series, two agents of the
- 2:53United States intelligence, the one fake tennis
- 2:56coach, already mentioned Alexander Scott, accompanied
- 2:59by the student, also faked, Kelly Robinson, the
- 3:02actor Robert Culp. In Sofia, the third episode
- 3:05of the second season shot in Rome, several Italian
- 3:08actors appeared. In the role of Sofia, a young
- 3:11Raffaella Carrà. The Italian icon was not new
- 3:14to foreign productions. In 1965 she had played
- 3:17Gabriella in the Hollywood film The Colonel Ford.
- 3:21Brian Conofranc Sinatra. In The Spies, the actor
- 3:35Enzo Cerusico played Gino, Sofia's boyfriend,
- 3:38in the process of marrying her. During the film,
- 3:41it will be discovered that the girl was adopted
- 3:42during the Second World War by agent Scott. Gino,
- 3:46on the other hand, will reveal himself to be
- 3:47a thief of jewels. The two secret agents will
- 3:50even end up in jail in an attempt to get him
- 3:53out of trouble, and in the end they will succeed
- 3:54in their attempt. Thanks to that part, Enzo Cerusico
- 3:58was chosen by Sheldon Leonard, producer. as the
- 4:01protagonist of another of his productions, Tony
- 4:04and the Professor, along with James Whitmore,
- 4:06Professor John Woodruff. The choice turned out
- 4:08to be fortunate. Enzo Cerusico became one of
- 4:11the few Italian actors known overseas. The Italian
- 4:14public still remembers him with affection in
- 4:16that role. In The Spies, many important Italian
- 4:19names were recited, and not Carlo Croccolo, Gabriele
- 4:22Ferzetti, Martin Landau, Ron Howard, Boris Karloff,
- 4:25Riccardo Montalban, G. Nakma. Thanks to Enzo
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