Mario Landi

Mario Landi

Born	(1920-10-12)12 October 1920 Messina, Sicily, Italy
Died	18 March 1992(1992-03-18) (aged 71) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Director
Known for	Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

Mario Landi (12 October 1920 – 18 March 1992) was an Italian director known for his giallo movies such as Giallo a Venezia and his television series Le inchieste del commissario Maigret.^[1]

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Life and career

Born in Messina, Sicily, Landi attended the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, graduating in direction in 1944.^[2] He began his career in theater, working with the best actors of his time, in particular being one of the most active protagonists of the "Diogene" cultural circle in Milan, a reference point for the Italian theater in the 1950s.^[2] He made his debut as a film director in 1950, with the musical film Canzoni per le strade, but soon his interests shifted to the new medium of his era, the television;^[2] he is regarded as a pioneer of Italian television, for which he worked since 1952, when RAI started experimental broadcasting before starting the regular TV service.^[2]^[3] From 1955 to 1979 he directed a very large number of television movies and series, occasionally directing a few variety shows, including an edition of Canzonissima.^[2]^[3] He was less active in cinema, in which he sporadically directed a number of low-profile genre films.^[2]

Reception

The films of Mario Landi were not well received. Paolo Mereghetti, author of Il Mereghetti, wrote of Maigret a Pigalle: "the direction is slovenly",^[4] while of Giallo a Venezia he wrote that it:^[5]

"deserves (or perhaps does not deserve) to be remembered as one of the most idiotic Italian thrillers ever made, a collage of soft-porn sequences and dismemberments of rare brutality that fall into the void, in a childish attempt to astonish."

Filmography

As actor

Howlers in the Dock (1960, as Il regista Lando)
Cry of a Prostitute (1974, as Don Turi Scannapieco)

As director

Songs in the Streets (1950)
Siamo tutti Milanesi (1953)
Così è (se vi pare) (1954)
Andrea Chénier (1955)
Cime tempestose (1956, TV Mini-Series)
All'insegna delle sorelle Kadar (1957)
Canzonissima (1958, TV series)
Canne al vento (1958)
Il povero fornaretto di Venezia (1959)
Il romanzo di un maestro (1959, TV Mini-Series)
Lo schiavo impazzito (1960)
Ragazza mia (1960, TV Mini-Series)
Racconti dell'Italia di ieri - Un episodio dell'anno della fame (1961)
Il piacere dell'onestà (1961)
Racconti dell'Italia di oggi - Una lapide in Via Mazzini (1962)
Ritorna il tenente Sheridan (1963, TV series, 6 episodes)
Giacobbe ed Esau (1963)
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964-1972, TV series, 16 episodes)
Maigret a Pigalle (1967)^[6]
Questi nostri figli (1967, TV Mini-Series, 4 episodes)
Dossier Mata Hari (1967, TV Mini-Series, 4 episodes)
I racconti del maresciallo (1968, TV series, 6 episodes)
Dal tuo al mio (1969)
Un mese in campagna (1970)
Nessuno deve sapere (1972, TV Mini-Series, 4 episodes)
Serata al gatto nero (1973, TV Mini-Series, 2 episodes)
Batton Story (1976)
L'altro Simenon (1979, TV Series)
Accadde ad Ankara (1979, TV Mini-Series)
La vedova e il piedipiatti (1979, TV Mini-Series, 6 episodes)
Supersexymarket (1979)
Giallo a Venezia (1979)^[6]^[7]^[8]
Il viziaccio (1980)
Patrick Still Lives (1980)^[6]

As Screenwriter

The Two Sergeants (1951)

References

^ Louis, Paul (2004). Italian Horror Film Directors. McFarland & Company. p. 1979. ISBN 0786418346.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
^ ^a ^b Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. Enciclopedia della Televisione. Garzanti, 1996 – 2003. ISBN 881150466X.
^ Mereghetti, Paolo (2003). Il Mereghetti: Dizionario dei Film 2004. Vol. Le schede. Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. p. 1357. ISBN 88-8490-419-6. la regia è sciatta.
^ Mereghetti, Paolo (2003). Il Mereghetti: Dizionario dei Film 2004. Vol. Le schede. Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. p. 987. ISBN 88-8490-419-6. merita di essere ricordato (o forse non lo merita) come uno dei thriller italiani più cretini mai realizzati, collage di sequenze porno-soft e di squartamenti di rara efferatezza che cascano nel vuoto, nel puerile tentativo di stupire.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mereghetti, Paolo (2003). Il Mereghetti: Dizionario dei Film 2004. Vol. Gli indici. Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. p. 997. ISBN 88-8490-419-6.
^ Jaworzyn, Stefan (1994). Shock Xpress: v.2: Essential Guide to Exploitation Cinema (Vol 2). Titan Books Ltd. pp. 70, 71, 73. ISBN 1852865199.
^ "There's Always Room for Giallo: Giallo a Venezia (Giallo in Venice)". MovieFone. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.