Love and Blood

1951 film

Gino De Santis
Ernst Marischka
Paola Ojetti

Produced byWilliam A. SzekeleyStarring

Maria Montez
Alan Curtis

CinematographyAnchise BrizziEdited byLoris BelleroMusic byRenzo Rossellini

Production
companies

A. B. Film
Comedia-Film
La Quercia Produzione Film

Release date

5 April 1951 (1951-04-05)

Running time

86 minutesCountries

Italy
West Germany

LanguageItalian

Love and Blood (Italian: Amore e sangue) is a 1951 Italian-German crime melodrama film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Maria Montez in one of her last roles.^[1] It was also known as City of Violence. The film's art direction was by Max Mellin and Rolf Zehetbauer.

A separate German-language version Shadows Over Naples was also made, directed by Hans Wolff.^[2]

Cast

Maria Montez as Dolores
Massimo Serato as Peppuccio
Hans Söhnker as Marco, capo camorra
Carlo Giustini as Paolo
Mirella Uberti [it] as Nennella
Folco Lulli as Pietro
Andrea Checchi
Josef Meinrad as Otto
Vittorio De Sosti
Alan Curtis
Pina Piovani
Dina Romano
Riccardo Valente
Diego Pozzetto
Dario Michaelis
Siegfried Breuer
Pasquale Fasciano as Ercole
Liana Del Balzo
Petra Peters
Clelia Matania
Otto Wernicke
Domenico Baiardo
Viktor Afritsch [de]
Ursula Herking
Anita Angius
Ernst Rotmund
Giulio Battiferri

References

^ Amore e Sangue at Maria Montez Fan Fage
^ Bock & Bergfelder, p. 546.

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.