Known for Writing
Luciano Vincenzoni (7 March 1926 – 22 September 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for 65 films between 1954 and 2000. Vincenzoni was born in Treviso, Veneto. He is probably best known in world cinema for his scriptwriting of Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966, but he also wrote for a number of other Spaghetti Westerns.
Born
March 7, 1926
Died
September 22, 2013 (age 87)
Birthplace
Treviso, Veneto, Italy
Filmography
95 films


Blowing Hot and Cold
1989 · 1h 25m · AU
The story of two men from opposite backgrounds and social structures who become friends. Jack Phillips is a laid-back, wry service station proprietor in a small Australian country town. His world is disrupted when a fast talking, gesticulating, vocal Italian, Nino Patrovita bursts upon the scene.


Miami Supercops
1985 · 1h 36m · IT
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.


Casablanca, Casablanca
1985 · 1h 49m · IT
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.


Tit for Tat
1984 · 1h 42m · IT
Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.


Hearts and Armour
1983 · 1h 38m · IT
Love blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a woman knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. But a sorceress predicts to Bradamante her beloved will die in battle at the hand of fellow Christian paladin Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.


Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
1983 · 1h 37m · IT
Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."


Count Tacchia
1982 · 1h 57m · IT
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.


The Paramedic
1982 · 1h 50m · IT
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes


Tony: Another Double Game
1980 · 1h 28m
A kind-hearted vagabond, Tony, being targeted by a gang when he tries to stop a kidnapping. He must turn to his friend, police Santini, and use their wits to survive.


Orca
1977 · 1h 32m · IT
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.


Italy is Rotten
1976 · 1h 38m · IT
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.


The Boss and the Worker
1975 · 1h 44m · IT
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.


The Babysitter
1975 · 1h 50m · DE
Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is informed of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. However, upon arrival, Michelle makes a horrifying discovery.


Cry, Onion!
1975 · 1h 32m · DE
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.


Libera, My Love
1975 · 1h 50m · IT
A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.


Policewoman
1974 · 1h 40m · IT
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.


The Beast
1974 · 1h 35m · IT
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.


Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973 · 1h 33m · FR
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.


Mr. Hercules Against Karate
1973 · 1h 43m · IT
A skinny troublemaker and his good-natured, bemuscled sidekick find trouble in Hong Kong.


The Heroes
1973 · ES
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."


Black Turin
1972 · 1h 45m · IT
Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.


Duck, You Sucker
1971 · 2h 37m · IT
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.


Roma bene
1971 · 1h 34m · DE
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.


That's How We Women Are
1971 · 1h 52m · IT
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.


The Mercenary
1968 · 1h 41m · IT
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.


A Quiet Place in the Country
1968 · 1h 46m · IT
A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disintegrate.


Death Rides a Horse
1967 · 1h 55m · IT
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.


The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 · 2h 41m · US
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.


The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1966 · 1h 55m · IT
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.


For a Few Dollars More
1965 · 2h 12m · DE
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.


It's a Hard Life
1964 · 1h 39m · IT
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.


Seduced and Abandoned
1964 · 1h 58m · IT
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.


La cuccagna
1962 · 1h 44m · IT
Rossella, a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the "greasy pole", which is the economic miracle, is only an illusion, and the world is far more ruthless than she could believe. But fate brings together Giuliano, the only man who did not ask for anything and who - like her - is not inclined to compromise.


Seduction Of The South
1961 · 1h 42m · FR
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.


Revolt of the Mercenaries
1961 · 1h 38m · ES
Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.


...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960 · 1h 46m · IT
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.


The Great War
1959 · 2h 17m · FR
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.


Venetian Honeymoon
1959 · 1h 27m · FR
There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.


È arrivata la parigina
1958 · 1h 30m · IT
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.


Il cocco di mamma
1957 · 1h 33m · IT
Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?


The Railroad Man
1956 · 1h 55m · IT
Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.