Ragazzi del Juke-Box

Ragazzi del Juke-Box
Ragazzi del Juke-Box
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Directed by	Lucio Fulci
Written by	Lucio Fulci; Piero Vivarelli; Vittorio Vighi
Produced by	Giovanni Addessi
Starring	Mario Carotenuto ; Elke Sommer ; Anthony Steffen
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori
Edited by	Gabriele Varriale
Music by	Eros Sciorilli
Production; company	Era Cinematografica
Distributed by	Lux Film
Release date	August 13, 1959;
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Box office	1.4 million lira

Ragazzi del Juke-Box (a.k.a. Juke-Box Kids) is a 1959 Italian "musicarello" film directed (and co-written) by Lucio Fulci and starring Mario Carotenuto, Elke Sommer and Anthony Steffen.^[2] Lucio Fulci has a cameo in the film as a festival organizer.^[3]

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More than for the subject and the script, it deserves to be considered for the cast comprising some of the greatest characters of Italian pop music at the time of the screamers. The film sees the first film success of Adriano Celentano (who the previous year had made a first appearance in I frenetici) and includes for example the version of the band I Campioni of the song considered the first Italian rock'n roll, Ciao ti dirò del 1958 with text by Giorgio Calabrese and music by Gian Franco Reverberi [1] already interpreted by Giorgio Gaber and then by Ricky Gianco.^[4]

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Sir Cesari (Mario Carotenuto) runs a record company that promotes the classical music he loves. But when he goes to prison, his attractive young daughter Giulia (Elke Sommer) takes over the company and uses it to promote rock n' roll singers instead.

Mario Carotenuto: Commander Cesari
Elke Sommer: Giulia Cesari
Anthony Steffen: Paolo Macelloni
Giacomo Furia: Gennarino
Yvette Masson: Maria Davanzale
Fred Buscaglione and his Asternovas: Fred and his band
Adriano Celentano and the Modern Jazz Gang: Adriano and his band
Betty Curtis: Betty Dorys
Gianni Meccia: Jimmy
Tony Dallara: Tony Bellaria
Mario Ambrosino: il contino
Giuliano Mancini: Jimmy
Karin Well: Girl at club
Umberto D'Orsi
Enzo Garinei
Ornella Vanoni
Lucio Fulci: Festival organizer^[5]

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[1]
Thrower, Stephen (1999). Beyond Terror, the films of Lucio Fulci. FAB Press. page 272.
[2]
"RAGAZZI DEL JUKE BOX (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
[3]
Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. Page 70.
[4]
Scalenghe, Franco; Sampietro, Piero; Andreoletti, Emilio Gian (January 1967). "Alcuni aspetti del controllo ormonale de glicogeno nel cuore e nel muscolo schetrico del Tritone crestato". Bolletino di Zoologia. 34 (1–4): 172. doi:10.1080/11250006709440839. ISSN 0373-4137.
[5]
Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. page 70.

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[1] [1]
Thrower, Stephen (1999). Beyond Terror, the films of Lucio Fulci. FAB Press. page 272.

[2] [2]
"RAGAZZI DEL JUKE BOX (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2018-10-25.

[3] [3]
Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. Page 70.

[4] [4]
Scalenghe, Franco; Sampietro, Piero; Andreoletti, Emilio Gian (January 1967). "Alcuni aspetti del controllo ormonale de glicogeno nel cuore e nel muscolo schetrico del Tritone crestato". Bolletino di Zoologia. 34 (1–4): 172. doi:10.1080/11250006709440839. ISSN 0373-4137.

[5] [5]
Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. page 70.

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