#franco nero

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Franco Nero and Anthony Rogers as Lancelot and Sir Dinadan in Camelot (1967) dir. Joshua Logan

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THE DAY OF THE OWL dir. Damiano Damiani (1968)

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MAN, PRIDE AND VENGEANCE (1967) written and directed by Luigi Bazzoni 

“Carmen (Tina Aumont) is indeed stunning but you know she never really cares for José (Franco Nero) and that she is basically manipulating him." (x)

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“Querelle, a strange blend of sodomy and homicide, is alternately appealing, intriguing and silly. Brad Davis is cast in the title role, that of a seagoing sexpot who’s desired by all of the principal characters and by several of the minor ones, as well … The action transpires on campy, blatantly artificial sets straight out of an MGM musical from the forties. (The lighting, too, is garishly theatrical). The soundstage is swarming with sweaty semi-nude sailors. The mooring posts on the dock are unmistakably phallic. Even the swooping Art Nouveau ornamentation on the windows is obscenely suggestive. Anything, apparently for erotic effect … we get the feeling that if they upped the decadence by one iota, the screen would start oozing fungus …”

/ Author Paul Roen reflecting on Querelle in his 1994 book High Camp: A Gay Guide to Camp and Cult Films, Volume 1 /

“The idea of murder often evokes the idea of sea and seafarers ...” opens Querelle of Brest, French literary bad boy Jean Genet’s notorious novel (written in 1947, published in 1953). It’s also the opening line of Querelle (1982), the great maverick German director Rainer Werner’s Fassbinder’s final film (he died of a drug overdose aged just 37 before it premiered) – which opened in French cinemas on this day (8 September 1982). Starring rugged Brad Davis in the lead role, Franco Nero and then-reigning queen of European art cinema Jeanne Moreau, Querelle is a fascinating, hallucinatory experiment, a powerful study of decadence and a feverish (wet) dream of a movie! Pictured: Davis and Fassbinder conferring during production of Querelle. Now sing along with me: “Each man kills the thing he loves …”

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Franco Nero (b. 1941)

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Un Tranquillo Posto di Campagna (1969) Elio Petri

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Because I am a Rascal (and I wish to keep you all entertained while I take ungodly amounts of time between rounds)...

As was the case with our Hottest Arthur Poll, the BBC Merlin candidate won with a crushing landslide, which surprised absolutely none of us.

But as I was in my bath this morn, I bethought me, t'would be a jolly thing were we to see how the scales may tip without fair Santiago in the ranks.

So we pose the query

Who IS the Hottest Lancelot? (THAT ISN'T from BBC'S Merlin)?

Row 1

- William Russell, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956)

- Franco Nero, Camelot (1967)

Row 2

- Luc Simon, Lancelot du Lac (1974)

- John Cleese, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Row 3

- Nicholas Clay, Excalibur (1981)

- Noah Wyle, Guinevere (1994)

Row 4

- Richard Gere, First Knight (1995)

- Michael Vartan, The Mists of Avalon (2001)

Who is the Hottest Lancelot?

William Russell

Franco Nero

Luc Simon

John Cleese

Nicholas Clay

Noah Wyle

Richard Gere

Michael Vartan

Voting ended onNov 3, 2025