The Gorgon (1942)
1h 25m
Running Time
October 12, 1942Release Date
The Gorgon (1942)
1h 25m
Running Time
October 12, 1942Release Date
Plot.
1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
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Cast & Crew.
Mariella Lotti
Spina di Pietro, la Gorgona
Rossano Brazzi
Lamberto Finquinaldo
Camillo Pilotto
Marcello Finquinaldo, padre di Lamberto
Annibale Betrone
Il conte Ranieri
Piero Carnabuci
Arrigo del Coscetto
Tina Lattanzi
La contessa Matilde di Toscana
Guido Brignone
Director
Sem Benelli
Writer
Lauro Gazzolo
Il fedele servo di Spina
Tomaso Smith
Writer
Enza Delbi
Bianca
Enzo Masetti
Composer
Gorella Gori
Berta
Emilio Cigoli
Miniato - lo scudiero
Otello Martelli
Cinematographer
Giulia Martinelli
Celeste
Dolores Tamburini
Editor
Amelia Beretta
Berta
Achille Majeroni
Il console Marignano
Cesare Fantoni
Pietro Moricone - vescovo
Giorgio Capecchi
Capitano Borso
Giovanni Onorato
Nicastro
Tatiana Farnese
Figlia del conte Ranieri
Loli Bonfanti
Seconda figlia
Amedeo Trilli
Il guardiano marito di Angela
Raimondo Van Riel
Pietro Capronesi
Luigi Carpentieri
Assistant Director
Rosi Gori
Costume Design
Mario Zama
Production Manager
Tullo Parmegiani
Sound
Domenico Gaido
Costume Design
Tullio Covaz
Assistant Director
Enrico Miniati
Production Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1942
Original NameLa Gorgona
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Genres
Wiki.
The Gorgon (Italian: La Gorgona) is a 1942 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Mariella Lotti, Rossano Brazzi and Camillo Pilotto. It was adapted from the play by Sem Benelli and is set in the Republic of Pisa during the eleventh century.
It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome.