Mondo balordo


1967

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1967
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 8 Mar 1967
Production Company
Cineproduzioni Associate
Distribution Company
Crown International Pictures
Country
Italy

Synopsis

A record of unusual and bizarre customs practiced throughout the world. Included in the footage are scenes of moviemakers utilizing special effects to make their film heroes look like modern-day Samsons; tourists in desert countries paying large fees to "go native" for a night; a Las Vegas beauty pageant; young girls in primitive locales being given in marriage at an age when their contemporaries in other lands are playing with dolls; the lottery craze in Italy; a visit to an oriental opium den; a transvestite bar; a man attempting to break through the Berlin Wall; Mediterranean fishermen secretly working for smugglers; children in Ecuador who are addicted to cocaine; the religious rites of India's "untouchables"; young boatmen in Capri taking foreign women out on fishing boats for the night; Arabian beauty parlors; a man living his life according to the conviction that he is the reincarnation of Rudolph Valentino; and Englishmen playing adult "parlor games" in Sherwood Forest.

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1967
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 8 Mar 1967
Production Company
Cineproduzioni Associate
Distribution Company
Crown International Pictures
Country
Italy

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Released in Italy in 1964; running time: 93 min.