Brief Rapture

Brief Rapture
Brief Rapture
Directed by	Enzo Trapani
Written by	Enzo Trapani; Leopoldo Trieste
Starring	Amedeo Nazzari ; Lois Maxwell ; Umberto Spadaro
Cinematography	Bitto Albertini
Edited by	Renato Cinquini
Music by	Charlie Beal ; Vincenzo Falcomata ; Benito Pérez
Production; company	Perla Film
Release date	1 February 1951;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Brief Rapture (Italian: Lebbra bianca) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Enzo Trapani and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell and Umberto Spadaro.^[1] An Italian war veteran teams up with a police inspector to pursue the drug-dealing gang who have killed his sister.

It was shot at the SACI Studios in Rome.

Plot

Stefano returns to Rome to look for Lucia, a sister he hasn't heard of for months now. Lucia works with a rich family, Stefano goes to the family and finds in Lucia's suitcase an address of a pension, when he arrives at the pension he meets Erika a foreign girl who is a friend of Lucia, but Erika has no information to give him. Stefano who has fallen in love with Erika goes with her to a dance hall where he works, when he arrives at the club he comes into contact with a gang of cocaine traffickers; discovering that Erika is their contact. At this point Stefano goes to a clandestine gambling den and while there is a police raid he learns that Lucia has committed suicide in the Tiber. The traffickers responsible for Lucia's death, fearful of retaliation by Stefano, order Erika to kill him, Erika reveals everything to Stefano, and together they will face the traffickers.^[2]

Main cast

Amedeo Nazzari as Francesco Leverrier
Umberto Spadaro as Police chief
Lois Maxwell as Erika
Ermanno Randi as Stefano Ferrari
Juan de Landa as Boss
Sophia Loren as A girl in the boardinghouse
Folco Lulli
Silvio Bagolini as Gorini
Gilberto Mazzi as Alfonso
Massimo Sallusti as Carlo

References

^ Pruzzo & Lancia p.129
^ Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico; Pecorari, Mario (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959 (in Italian). Gremese Editore. ISBN 978-88-7605-548-5.

Bibliography

Piero Pruzzo & Enrico Lancia. Amedeo Nazzari. Gremese Editore, 1983.

External links

Brief Rapture at IMDb

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[1] Pruzzo & Lancia p.129

[2] Chiti, Roberto; Poppi, Roberto; Lancia, Enrico; Pecorari, Mario (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959 (in Italian). Gremese Editore. ISBN 978-88-7605-548-5.

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