Uno strano tipo

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Uno strano tipo
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Directed byLucio Fulci
Screenplay by
Story byVittorio Metz[1]
StarringAdriano Celentano
CinematographyGuglielmo Mancori[1]
Edited byOrnella Micheli[2]
Production
company
Giovanni Addessi Produzione Cinematografica S.p.A.
Release date
  • March 6, 1963 (1963-03-06) (Bari)
Running time
90 minutes[1]
CountryItaly
Box officeITA 87 million

Una strano tipo (lit.'A Strange Type') is a 1963 Italian musicarello directed by Lucio Fulci. The film stars musician Adriano Celentano as himself. Celentano arrives in a small town on vacation when he finds that everyone in town hates him. He soon finds out a local troublemaker named Peppino is a lookalike and has been claiming to be the famous singer.[1]

The film was the third of Fulci's musical films and feature Celentano. It grossed a total of 87 million Italian lire on its domestic release in Italy.

Production

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Uno strano tipo was an Italian production from Giovanni Addessi Produzione Cinematografica S.p.A..[1] The film was shot in Amalfi.[3] Like Fulci's earlier films Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959) and Urlatori alla sbarra (1960), Uno strano tipo was a musicarello.[4] The musicarello was a short-lived cycle of musical films produced primarily between 1958 and 1971, which were primarily targeted to audiences in their late teens and early 20s. [5]

Adriano Celentano performs in the film, as he had for Fulci's previous films Ragazzi del Juke-Box and Urlatori alla sbarra.[6] Celentano performs as himself and a buffonnish double in the film.[7] On set, Celentano met Claudia Mori and were married the next year.[7]

Release

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Uno strano tipo was released in Bari, Italy on March 6, 1963.[1] It was next shown at the Bordighera Festival Internazionale del Film Comico e Umoristico, which ran from March 10 to 19 in 1963.[7] It was later released in Turin on April 4 and Rome on July 27, 1963.[1] It grossed a total of 87 million Italian lire domestically in Italy.[8]

It was released in the United States in Chicago on May 18, 1965, and Philadelphia on October 3, 1965. It was shown at two cinemas that specialized in films for Italian-American audiences.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Thrower 2018, p. 66.
  2. ^ ANICA.
  3. ^ Stamp Sera 1964, p. 11.
  4. ^ Thrower 2018, p. 57.
  5. ^ Hotz 2017, p. 64.
  6. ^ Thrower 2018, p. 57-58.
  7. ^ a b c Thrower 2018, p. 67.
  8. ^ Grainger & Thrower 2002, p. 273.

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