Old Venetian Prison Film
February 8, 2007 1:53 PM Subscribe
Does anyone know the title of old Italian film - Partly set in a Venetian Jail?
I'm trying to find this film for an old friend - Who described it, but was very flaky about the details.
It's an old Italian film (poss. c1950's?)
Rough plot: A man is wrongly imprisoned (by the guilty person) in a Venetian prison. At one point in the film, water rises in the cell, and the man has to struggle to remain above the water.
I believe at the end of the film, the man is vanquished.
I'm trying to find this film for an old friend - Who described it, but was very flaky about the details.
It's an old Italian film (poss. c1950's?)
Rough plot: A man is wrongly imprisoned (by the guilty person) in a Venetian prison. At one point in the film, water rises in the cell, and the man has to struggle to remain above the water.
I believe at the end of the film, the man is vanquished.
Long shot, and not Italian, but Papillon has a scene where the wrongly imprisoned man is struggling to remain above the water in a Venezuelan jail.
posted by goo at 2:52 PM on February 8, 2007
posted by goo at 2:52 PM on February 8, 2007
The best match I find is Il Tradimento.
You can try using the IMDB power search to search. I was using these search parameters:
country of origin = Italy
release date between 1930-1970
plot summary include words: prison; jail; Venice (I did three separate searches).
posted by LobsterMitten at 2:54 PM on February 8, 2007
You can try using the IMDB power search to search. I was using these search parameters:
country of origin = Italy
release date between 1930-1970
plot summary include words: prison; jail; Venice (I did three separate searches).
posted by LobsterMitten at 2:54 PM on February 8, 2007
Papillon has a scene exactly like that. He is in a dug-out jail cell that is flooded twice a day whenever the tide comes in.
posted by afx237vi at 3:34 PM on February 8, 2007
posted by afx237vi at 3:34 PM on February 8, 2007
Response by poster: Thanks people!
I checked IMDB ealier (but I didn't know about the power-search, LobsterMitten)
Papillon seems too new (from what the chap spoke of the film, it seemed much older - That said, it could have been dubbed into Italian, and his memory may be playing tricks on him)
I'll have to quiz him some more about Casanova di Federico, Occhiblu. He may have "forgotten" the sexy scenes, because his wife was in the room :), but that seems quite recent too.
I hope others still contribute - I'd like to track this down for him.
posted by Dub at 4:35 PM on February 8, 2007
I checked IMDB ealier (but I didn't know about the power-search, LobsterMitten)
Papillon seems too new (from what the chap spoke of the film, it seemed much older - That said, it could have been dubbed into Italian, and his memory may be playing tricks on him)
I'll have to quiz him some more about Casanova di Federico, Occhiblu. He may have "forgotten" the sexy scenes, because his wife was in the room :), but that seems quite recent too.
I hope others still contribute - I'd like to track this down for him.
posted by Dub at 4:35 PM on February 8, 2007
vanquished? or vindicated?
posted by sergeant sandwich at 5:06 PM on February 8, 2007
posted by sergeant sandwich at 5:06 PM on February 8, 2007
He may have "forgotten" the sexy scenes, because his wife was in the room
Heh, they weren't all that sexy. It's mostly extreme close-ups of Donald Sutherland's face as he huffs and puffs away, as if you in the audience were his (bored) partner. It's hard to forget, and not really in a good way!
posted by occhiblu at 6:28 PM on February 8, 2007
Heh, they weren't all that sexy. It's mostly extreme close-ups of Donald Sutherland's face as he huffs and puffs away, as if you in the audience were his (bored) partner. It's hard to forget, and not really in a good way!
posted by occhiblu at 6:28 PM on February 8, 2007
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posted by occhiblu at 2:52 PM on February 8, 2007