Mondo balordo
Cast & Crew
Roberto Bianchi Montero
Franz Drago
Boris Karloff
Enzo Alfonsi
Franco Bassi
Guido Castaldo
Film Details
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.
Director
Roberto Bianchi Montero
Crew
Enzo Alfonsi
Franco Bassi
Guido Castaldo
Lallo Gori
Ivanhoe Productions
Giuseppe La Torre
Nini Rosso
Francesco Torti
Albert T. Viola
Fred Von Bernewitz
Ted Weiss
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Released in Italy in 1964; running time: 93 min.