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Giorgio Mangiamele

Born August 13, 1926 · Catania, Sicily, Italy

Died May 13, 2001 · aged 74

Giorgio Mangiamele studied Fine Arts in Catania, Italy; Film Production at the Polizia Scientifica, Rome, Italy; and journalism in the Faculty of Journalism, Pro-Deo University in Rome, Italy. He emigrated to Australia in 1952, and became a Naturalised Australian citizen in 1957. Soon after arrival in Australia, he set up a photographic studio in Carlton, and started making films. In the late fif…

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Clay

A killer on the run is found lying flat on his face in a wet clay bank. He is rescued by potters who shelter him within their community. There he falls in love with a woman. Unfortunately, another man who has been calling upon the woman gets jealous and turns the fugitive in to the cops. The woman gets revenge.

Beyond Reason

Beyond Reason · 1970

MovieThrillerDrama

Nuclear war breaks out and the staff and patients of a mental hospital take refuge in an underground bunker and accidentally get locked in. Disciple soon disintegrates and the patients, led by Richard, start to resist authority. Richard devises a scheme for a new social order where the sane will take no part. The doctors try to resist but are ultimately overcome.

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Clay

A killer on the run is found lying flat on his face in a wet clay bank. He is rescued by potters who shelter him within their community. There he falls in love with a woman. Unfortunately, another man who has been calling upon the woman gets jealous and turns the fugitive in to the cops. The woman gets revenge.

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Beyond Reason

Beyond Reason · 1970

MovieThrillerDrama

Nuclear war breaks out and the staff and patients of a mental hospital take refuge in an underground bunker and accidentally get locked in. Disciple soon disintegrates and the patients, led by Richard, start to resist authority. Richard devises a scheme for a new social order where the sane will take no part. The doctors try to resist but are ultimately overcome.

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