Sexy Cop (La Poliziotta Della Squadra Del Buon Costume)

This is a scene from Michele Massimo Tarantini's La Poliziotta Della Squadra Del Buon Costume (1979), the second of three comedies about the adventures of a sexy policewoman, Gianna, played by Edwige Fenech. NoShame released all three films in a nice DVD-box, but without English subtitles.



I can't understand what they're saying, but it is so dated, and so over the top, that it still made me laugh eventually. Unfortunately Fenech isn't in this clip.

Mondo Cannibale

This is the trailer for Ruggero Deodato’s Last Cannibal World (1977). It obviously tries to lift on the success of the Mondo films, by hinting that the film itself is in fact a sort of pseudo-Mondo. The genre had become more extreme and shocking as the years went by, as can been seen in the following shocking video from Antonio Climati’s The Great Hunting (1974), in which a man is eaten by lions.



Two years later, with Cannibal Holocaust, Deodato turned that kind of Mondo into one of the subjects of his film. And funny enough it’s with that film that some people thought, that what was onscreen, was actually real...

Venantino Venantini in Portable Apple ad

This old commercial for Apple's portable computer stars Venantino Venantini (aka Vernon Vernons), who played numerous supporting roles in italian movies. He's probably most famous for drilling a hole into poor Giovanni Lombardo Radice's head in The city of the living dead (1980, Paura nella città dei morti viventi).

Although he was for me one of the first recognizable faces in italian genre cinema, he never made much of an impression. But in this commercial he's stylish and charismatic and I can't shake the feeling that most movies wasted his talents.