List of Italian films of 1972

A list of films produced in Italy in 1972 (see 1972 in film):

Italian films released in 1972

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York	Luigi Vanzi	Tony Anthony, Adolfo Celi, Richard Conte	Crime
Alfredo, Alfredo	Pietro Germi	Dustin Hoffman, Carla Gravina, Stefania Sandrelli	Comedy
All the Colors of the Dark	Sergio Martino	George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov	Giallo	Italian-Spanish co-production[1][2]
An Animal Called Man	Roberto Mauri	Vassili Karamesinis, Omero Capanna, Gillian Bray	Western	[3]
The Avenger, Zorro	Rafael Romero Marchent	Fabio Testi, Simonetta Vitelli, Riccardo Garrone	Western	[4][5] [6]
L'amico del padrino	Farouk Agrama	Richard Harrison, Erika Blanc, Krista Nell	—	Italian-Turkish co-production[7]
Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire	Giuseppe De Santis	Lino Capolicchio, Riccardo Cucciolla, Femi Benussi, Robert Hoffmann	drama
Arcana	Giulio Questi	Lucia Bosè, Tina Aumont	—	[8][9]
The Assassin of Rome	Damiano Damiani	Nino Manfredi, Gabriele Lavia	historical drama
Baron Blood	Mario Bava	Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti	—	Italian-West German co-production[10]
Beati i ricchi	Salvatore Samperi	Paolo Villaggio, Sylva Koscina	Comedy
Beau Masque	Bernard Paul	Luigi Diberti	Drama
Beyond the Frontiers of Hate	Alessandro Santini	Giovanni Scarciofolo, Stefania Nelli, George Cavendish	Western	[3]
La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia	Mariano Laurenti	Edwige Fenech, Piero Focaccia	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Ben and Charlie	Michele Lupo	Giuliano Gemma, George Eastman, Marisa Mell	Western	[3]
Bianco, rosso e...	Alberto Lattuada	Sophia Loren, Adriano Celentano	Comedy
The Black Decameron	Piero Vivarelli	Beryl Cunningham	Comedy
Black Turin	Carlo Lizzani	Bud Spencer, Françoise Fabian, Andrea Balestri	—	Italian-French co-production[11]
Blood Story	Amasi Damiani	Tony Kendall, Femi Benussi, Philip McNamara	—	[12]
Bloody Friday	Rolf Olsen	Gianni Macchia, Raimund Harmstorf, Amadeus August	—	West German-Italian co-production[12][13]
Boccaccio	Bruno Corbucci	Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Sylva Koscina	Comedy
The Boldest Job in the West	Jose Antonio de la Loma	Mark Edwards, Fernando Sancho, Carmen Sevilla	Western	Spanish-Italian-French co-production[3]
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna)	Franco Zeffirelli	Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker	Drama
A Bounty Killer for Trinity	Joe	Giovanni Scarciofolo, Enzo Pulcrano, Marina Malfatti	Western	[3]
Byleth - The Demon of Incest	Leopoldo Savona	Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi	—	[14]
La calandria	Pasquale Festa Campanile	Lando Buzzanca, Barbara Bouchet, Agostina Belli	Comedy
Caliber 9	Fernando Di Leo	Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf	—	[15]
The Call of the Wild	Ken Annakin	Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf	Western	British-French-German-Italian-Spanish co-production[3]
Can Be Done... Amigo	Mauizio Lucidi	Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestiè	Western	Italian-French-Spanish co-production[3]
Casa d'appuntamento	Ferdinando Merighi	Anita Ekberg, Barbara Bouchet	giallo
Il caso Pisciotta	Eriprando Visconti	Tony Musante, Carla Gravina	historical drama
The Canterbury Tales	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti	Erotic	Golden Bear winner at Berlin. Second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. Spoken in English
The Case of the Bloody Iris	Giuliano Carnimeo	Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini	Giallo
Una cavalla tutta nuda	Franco Rossetti	Don Backy, Barbara Bouchet, Renzo Montagnani	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Chronicle of a Homicide	Mauro Bolognini	Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Turi Ferro	Crime
Il coltello di ghiaccio	Umberto Lenzi	Carroll Baker, Evelyn Stewart	Giallo
Crime Boss	Alberto De Martino	Antonio Sabàto, Telly Savalas, Paola Tedesco	—	[16]
The Dead Are Alive	Armando Crispino	Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley	horror
The Deadly Trackers	Tanio Boccia	Richard Harrison, Anita Ekberg, Dada Gallotti	Western	[3]
Death Played the Flute	Angelo Pannaccio	Michael Forest, Franco Borelli, Giuseppe Cardillo	Western	[3]
Devil in the Brain	Sergio Sollima	Keir Dullea, Stefania Sandrelli	Giallo
Django... Adios	Roberto Mauri	Brad Harris, Jose Torres, Vassili Karamesinis	Western	[3]
Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si sevizia un paperino)	Lucio Fulci	Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, Florinda Bolkan	Giallo	Acclaimed giallo noted for its dark subject matter on child killings.
Doppia coppia con Regina	Julio Buchs	Marisa Mell, Gabriele Ferzetti	thriller
I due gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam	Osvaldo Civirani	Franco and Ciccio	Comedy
The Eroticist	Lucio Fulci	Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Execution Squad	Mario Caiano	Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Cyril Cusack	Poliziotteschi	Italian-West German co-production[17][18]
Eye in the Labyrinth	Mario Caiano	Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Alida Valli	horror
The Fabulous Trinity	Ignacio F Iquino	Richard Harrison, Fernando Sancho, Fanny Grey	Western	[3]
Fiorina la vacca	Vittorio De Sisti	Janet Agren, Gastone Moschin, Ornella Muti	Comedy
Frankenstein 80	Mario Mancini	John Richardson, Gordon Mitchell, Dalila Di Lazzaro	—	[19]
Gang War in Naples	Pasquale Squitieri	Fabio Testi, Jean Seberg, Raymond Pellegrin	—	Italian-French co-production[20]
Il generale dorme in piedi	Francesco Massaro	Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato	Commedia all'italiana
Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado	—	Gordon Mitchell, Stelvio Rosi, Craig Hill	Western	[21]
God in Heaven...Arizona on Earth	Juan Bosch	Peter Lee Lawrence, Maria Pia Conte, Roberto Camardiel	Western	Spanish-Italian co-production[3]
God is My Colt	Luigi Batzella	Giovanni Scarciofolo, Donal O'Brien, Krista Nell	Western	Italian-German co-production[3]
The Grand Duel	Giancarlo Santi	Lee Van Cleef, Horst Frank, Alberto Dentice	Western	Italian-French-German co-production[3][22]
The Great Treasure Hunt	Tonino Ricci	Mark Damon, Rosalba Neri, Stelvio Rosi	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[22]
A Gunman Called Dakota	Mario Sabatini	Gordon Mitchell, Mario Novelli, Bill Vanders	Western	[22]
Hallelujah & Sartana Strike Again	Mario Sicilliano	Ron Ely, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Uschi Glas	Western	Italian-German co-production[22]
The Hassled Hooker	Eriprando Visconti	Terence Hill, Paola Pitagora, Martin Balsam	Crime
Hector the Mighty	Enzo G. Castellari	Vittorio Caprioli, Giancarlo Giannini	Comedy
His Name Was Holy Ghost	Giuliano Carnimeo	Gianni Garko, Pilar Velázquez, Cris Huerta	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[22]
La prima notte di quiete	Valerio Zurlini	Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna	Drama, Romance	[22]
The Infamous Column	Nelo Risi	Helmut Berger, Vittorio Caprioli, Francisco Rabal	historical drama
The Italian Connection	Fernando Di Leo	Henry Silva, Mario Adorf, Woody Strode	Crime	Italian-West German co-production[23][24]
It Can Be Done Amigo	Maurizio Lucidi	Bud Spencer, Jack Palance	Spaghetti Western
Jesse & Lester: Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity	—	Richard Harrison, Donal O'Brien, Gino Marturano	Western	[22]
Jus primae noctis	Pasquale Festa Campanile	Lando Buzzanca, Renzo Montagnani, Marilù Tolo	comedy
Kill the Poker Player	Mario Bianchi	Robert Woods, Nieves Navarro, Frank Braña	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[22]
The Killer is on the Phone	Alberto De Martino	Telly Savalas, Anne Heywood, Rossella Falk	giallo
Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo Tango a Parigi)	Bernardo Bertolucci	Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider	Romantic Drama
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?	Giulio Petroni	Tomas Milian, Gregg Palmer, Janet Ågren	Western	Italian-French-German co-production[21]
Liza (La cagna)	Marco Ferreri	Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni	drama
Lo chiameremo Andrea	Vittorio De Sica	Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato	Commedia all'italiana
Long Arm of the Godfather	Nardo Bonomi	Adolfo Celi, Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc	—	[25]
Ludwig	Luchino Visconti	Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Trevor Howard, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini	Historical drama	David di Donatello winner. There's a restored long version. It's about Ludwig II of Bavaria
The Master and Margaret	Aleksandar Petrović	Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer	fantasy
The Master Touch	Michele Lupo	Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan	Crime	Italian-West German co-production[26]
The Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei)	Francesco Rosi	Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Franco Graziosi	Political drama	Palme d'Or winner at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Based on the death of Enrico Mattei
Miss Dynamite	Sergio Grieco	Antonio Sabàto, Marisa Mell, Fernando Sancho	Western	Italian-German-Spanish co-production[6]
La Mortadella (Lady Liberty)	Mario Monicelli	Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito	Comedy
Lucifera: Demon Lover	Paolo Lombardo	Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri	Horror	[27][28]
The Magnificent West	Gianni Crea	Vassili Karamesinis, Dario Pino, Gordon Mitchell	Western	[22]
Man Called Amen	Alfio Caltabiano	Luc Merenda, Sydne Rome	Western	[21]
Man of the East	Enzo Barboni	Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Henry Carey Jr.	Western	Italian-French-Yugoslavian[22]
Man from the Deep River	Umberto Lenzi	Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai	horror
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire	Bruno Corbucci	Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Erminio Macario	Comedy
More Sexy Canterbury Tales	Joe D'Amato	Monica Audras, Attilio Dottesio, Ari Hanow	decamerotico
La morte accarezza a mezzanotte	Luciano Ercoli	Susan Scott, Peter Martell	Giallo
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life	Ettore Scola	Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur	Commedia all'italiana
My Dear Killer	Tonino Valerii	George Hilton, Marilù Tolo	Giallo
My Horse... My Gun... Your Widow	Juan Bosch	Craig Hill, Claudie Lange, Cris Huerta	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[22]
Naked Girl Killed in the Park	Alfonso Brescia	Robert Hoffmann, Adolfo Celi	Giallo
The Night of the Devils	Giorgio Ferroni	Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera		Italian-Spanish co-production[29][30]
Now They Call Him Sacramento	Alfonso Balcázar	Michael Forest, Fernando Bilbao, Malisa Longo	Western	Spanish-Italian co-production[22]
The Adventures of Pinocchio	Giuliano Cenci	Renato Rascel, Lauro Gazzolo	animated film
Il provinciale	Luciano Salce	Gianni Morandi, Maria Grazia Buccella	Comedy
La ragazza dalla pelle di luna	Luigi Scattini	Zeudi Araya, Ugo Pagliai, Beba Lončar	erotic
The Red Headed Corpse	Renzo Russo	Farley Granger, Erika Blanc, Krista Nell	Giallo
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times	Emilio Miraglia	Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Sybil Danning	Giallo	Italian-West German co-production[31][32][33]
The Return of Clint the Stranger	Alfonso Balcázar	George Martin, Klaus Kinski	Western	[22]
Return of Halleluja	Giuliano Carnimeo	George Hilton, Lincoln Tate	Western	Italian-German-French co-production[21]
Return of the Holy Ghost	Roberto Mauri	Vassili Karamesinis, Craig Hill, Remo Capitani	Western	[21]
The Ribald Decameron	Giuseppe Vari	Malisa Longo, Orchidea De Santis	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Tough Guy	Franco Prosperi	Robert Blake, Catherine Spaak, Ernest Borgnine	Film noir	[34]
Roma	Federico Fellini	Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Alvaro Vitali	Felliniesque	Cannes Award
La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no	Giorgio Capitani	Lando Buzzanca, Catherine Spaak	Comedy
The Scientific Cardplayer (Lo scopone scientifico)	Luigi Comencini	Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Mario Carotenuto	Commedia all'italiana	2 David di Donatello
The Seduction of Mimi (Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore)	Lina Wertmüller	Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato	Commedia all'italiana	Entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids	Umberto Lenzi	Rossella Falk, Antonio Sabàto	Giallo
Shadows Unseen	Camillo Bazzoni	Frederick Stafford, Marilù Tolo, Franco Fabrizi	—	Italian-French-West German co-production[35]
Shoot Joe, and Shoot Again	Emilio Miraglia	Richard Harrison, Jose Torres, Franca Polesello	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[21]
The Sicilian Checkmate	Florestano Vancini	Enrico Maria Salerno, Gastone Moschin, Mario Adorf	—	[36]
The Sicilian Connection	Ferdinando Baldi	Ben Gazzara, Silvia Monti, Fausto Tozzi	—	[37]
Il sindacalista	Luciano Salce	Lando Buzzanca, Paola Pitagora	Comedy
Slap the Monster on Page One	Marco Bellocchio	Gian Maria Volonté, Laura Betti	Drama
Smile Before Death	Silvio Amadio	Jenny Tamburi, Rosalba Neri	Giallo
Sonny and Jed	Sergio Corbucci	Tomas Milian, Susan George, Telly Savalas	Western	Italian-Spanish-German co-production[3]
So Sweet, So Dead	Roberto Bianchi Montero	Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina	Giallo
Spirits of Death	Romano Scavolini	Evelyn Stewart, Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov	—	[38]
Sting of the West	Enzo G. Castellari	Jack Palance, Lionel Stander	Western	[21]
Summertime Killer	Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi	Ben Gazzara, Silvia Monti, Fausto Tozzi	—	Spanish-French-Italian co-production[39][34]
Tarzan and the Brown Prince	Manuel Caño	Steve Hawkes	Jungle adventure
They Believed He Was No Saint	Juan Bosch	Anthony Steffen, Daniel Martin, Tania Alvardo	Western	Spanish-Italian co-production[21]
They Call Him Amen	Alfio Caltabiano	Luc Merenda, Alfio Caltabiano, Tano Cimarosa	Western	[21]
They Call Him Varitas	Luigi Perelli	Mark Damon, Pat Nigro, Pietro Ceccarelli	Western	[21]
This Kind of Love	Alberto Bevilacqua	Jean Seberg, Ugo Tognazzi	drama
Thunder Over El Paso	Roberto Bianchi Montero	Antonio Sabàto, Chris Avram, Erika Blanc	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[21]
Tragic Ceremony	Riccardo Freda	Camille Keaton, Luciana Paluzzi, Luigi Pistilli	Horror	[40]
Trinity and Sartana are Coming	Mario Siciliano	Alberto Dell'Acqua, Harry Baird, Beatric Pella	Western	[21]
The Two Faces of Fear	Tulio Demicheli	George Hilton, Luciana Paluzzi	giallo	Spanish-Italian co-production
Two Sons of Trinity	Osvaldo Civirani	Franco and Ciccio, Lucreita Love	Western	[21]
Ubalda, All Naked and Warm	Mariano Laurenti	Edwige Fenech, Pippo Franco	Commedia sexy all'italiana
L'uccello migratore	Steno	Lando Buzzanca, Rossana Podestà	Comedy
L'udienza	Marco Ferreri	Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman	comedy-drama	Entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival
The Valachi Papers	Terence Young	Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura	Crime
Valerie Inside Outside	Brunello Rondi	Barbara Bouchet, Pier Paolo Capponi, Erna Schürer	drama
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key	Sergio Martino	Edwige Fenech, Beba Lončar, Anita Strindberg	Giallo
Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return	Pedro Luis Ramirez	George Martin, Fernando Sancho, Vittorio Richelmy	Western	[6]
The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive	Francesco Mazzei	Renzo Montagnani, Eva Czemerys	Giallo
What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?	Sergio Corbucci	Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio	Western	Italian-Spanish co-production[6]
What Have You Done to Solange?	Massimo Dallamano	Fabio Testi, Cristina Galbó	Giallo
When Women Lost Their Tails	Pasquale Festa Campanile	Senta Berger, Lando Buzzanca, Frank Wolff	Comedy
When Women Were Called Virgins	Aldo Grimaldi	Edwige Fenech, Vittorio Caprioli	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Winged Devils	Duccio Tessari	Riccardo Salvino, Barbara Bouchet	Adventure
Without Family	Vittorio Gassman	Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio	Commedia all'italiana
Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?	Giuseppe Vari	Lou Castel, Beba Lončar, Adolfo Celi	Crime
Who Saw Her Die? (Chi l'ha vista morire? )	Aldo Lado	George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi	Crime
You Are a Traitor and I'll Kill You	Manuel Esteba	Pierre Brice, Giuseppe Cardillo, Fernando Sancho	Western	Spanish-Italian co-production[6]
You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento	Giorgio Cristallini	Ty Hardin, Christian Hay, Jenny Atkins	Western	[6]

References

Footnotes

1. Curti 2017, p. 77.
2. Curti 2017, p. 78.
3. Grant 2011, p. 460.
4. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 23.
5. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 24.
6. Grant 2011, p. 463.
7. Curti 2013, p. 60.
8. "Arcana (1972)". Archivdelcinemaitalian.it (in Italian). Retrieved December 17, 2018.
9. Curti 2018, p. 111.
10. Curti 2017, p. 53.
11. Curti 2013, p. 50.
12. Curti 2013, p. 51.
13. "Blutiger Freitag". Filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2018.
14. Curti 2017, p. 60.
15. Curti 2013, p. 52.
16. Curti 2013, p. 55.
17. Curti 2013, p. 56.
18. Curti 2013, p. 57.
19. Curti 2017, p. 69.
20. Curti 2013, p. 59.
21. Grant 2011, p. 462.
22. Grant 2011, p. 461.
23. Curti 2013, p. 61.
24. Curti 2013, p. 62.
25. Curti 2013, p. 63.
26. Curti 2013, p. 64.
27. Curti 2017, p. 50.
28. Curti 2017, p. 51.
29. Curti 2017, p. 74.
30. Curti 2017, p. 75.
31. Curti 2017, p. 62.
32. Curti 2017, p. 63.
33. Curti 2017, p. 64.
34. Curti 2013, p. 69.
35. Curti 2013, p. 65.
36. Curti 2013, p. 66.
37. Curti 2013, p. 67.
38. Curti 2017, p. 57.
39. Curti 2013, p. 68.
40. Curti 2017, p. 65.

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
• Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
• Curti, Roberto (2018). Mavericks of Italian Cinema. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-7242-7.
• Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.
• Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.

External links

• Italian films of 1972 at the Internet Movie Database