Directing

Piero Pierotti

Born January 1, 1912 · Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Died March 3, 1970 · aged 58

Piero Pierotti was an Italian film director and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the late 1960s. Born in Pisa, Tuscany, he began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to various Italian films. Pierotti made his directorial debut with The Last of the Vikings (1961), a historical adventure film. He continued to explore adventure and historical themes with films like Hercules and the Masked…

Known For

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis · 1969

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

MovieAdventureComedy

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.

Beautiful But Dangerous

Beautiful But Dangerous · 1955

Beautiful But Dangerous

MovieRomanceComedy

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".

The Witch's Curse

The Witch's Curse · 1962

The Witch's Curse

MovieAdventureFantasy

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Erik the Conqueror

Erik the Conqueror · 1961

Erik the Conqueror

MovieAdventureHistory

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

War of the Zombies

War of the Zombies · 1964

War of the Zombies

MovieFantasyHorror

A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!

Marco Polo

Marco Polo · 1962

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

The Intruder

The Intruder · 1955

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.

Hercules and the Masked Rider

Hercules and the Masked Rider · 1963

Hercules and the Masked Rider

MovieAdventureAction

In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the war in Flanders. Don Juan dons a mask and joins with a gypsy band led by Estella to fight against the forces of Don Ramiro.

Filmography

Sort

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis · 1969

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

MovieAdventureComedy

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.

Story

Beautiful But Dangerous

Beautiful But Dangerous · 1955

Beautiful But Dangerous

MovieRomanceComedy

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".

Screenplay

The Witch's Curse

The Witch's Curse · 1962

The Witch's Curse

MovieAdventureFantasy

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Writer

Erik the Conqueror

Erik the Conqueror · 1961

Erik the Conqueror

MovieAdventureHistory

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

Story

War of the Zombies

War of the Zombies · 1964

War of the Zombies

MovieFantasyHorror

A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!

Screenplay

Marco Polo

Marco Polo · 1962

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Director

The Intruder

The Intruder · 1955

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.

Screenplay

Hercules and the Masked Rider

Hercules and the Masked Rider · 1963

Hercules and the Masked Rider

MovieAdventureAction

In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the war in Flanders. Don Juan dons a mask and joins with a gypsy band led by Estella to fight against the forces of Don Ramiro.

Director

The Pirate and the Slave Girl

The Pirate and the Slave Girl · 1959

The Pirate and the Slave Girl

MovieActionAdventure

When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Diego with their recovery before they can be sold to Sultan Selim.

Director

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi · 1953

MovieDramaMusic

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.

Screenplay

The White Angel

The White Angel · 1955

The White Angel

In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for his former lover.

Story

SuperSeven Calling Cairo

SuperSeven Calling Cairo · 1965

SuperSeven Calling Cairo

MovieActionDrama

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.

Screenplay

The Love Specialist

The Love Specialist · 1957

The Love Specialist

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.

Co-Writer

Son of Black Eagle

Son of Black Eagle · 1968

Son of Black Eagle

Count Aleksej is a notorious seducer at the Czar court but also the son of local Caucasus hero Black Eagle. When the Russians invade his land Aleksej must decide where to stand while pursuing his passion for Natascia, who detests him.

Screenplay

Hercules Against Rome

Hercules Against Rome · 1964

Hercules Against Rome

MovieFantasyAdventure

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by the leader of the pretorian guards.

Director

Lost Treasure of the Incas

Lost Treasure of the Incas · 1964

Lost Treasure of the Incas

MovieWesternAdventure

A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, where they come up against an outlaw gang that is searching for a buried Inca treasure, which is guarded by a lot Inca tribe.

Director

Hercules and the Pirates

Hercules and the Pirates · 1964

Hercules and the Pirates

MovieAdventureAction

aka Hercules and the Black Pirates. Brave and noble Samson fights pirates as a soldier in the royal army. He wants to marry lovely fair maiden Rosita, but her haughty governor father disapproves. Meanwhile, the cunning and duplicitous Rodrigo Sanchez joins forces with the wicked Black Pirate to thwart Samson.

Writer

Guai ai vinti

Guai ai vinti · 1954

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.

Screenplay

A Queen for Caesar

A Queen for Caesar · 1962

A Queen for Caesar

MovieAdventureHistory

Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.

Director

The Avenger of Venice

The Avenger of Venice · 1964

The Avenger of Venice

Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape.

Director

Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails · 1969

Shanda is charged with the murder of the banker, Burton and to save her from being lynched, the sheriff sends her off to Phoenix. During the trip the two deputies to whom she's been entrusted rape and leave her in the desert, certain that she's dead. The girl is found by Black Talisman, an outlaw, who takes her to his hideout, nurses her back to health and after hearing her story, determines to avenge her and clear her name.

Director

Giant of the Evil Island

Giant of the Evil Island · 1965

Giant of the Evil Island

MovieAdventureAction

A Spanish sea captain is sent to clean out Evil Island, from where pirate bands are raiding Spanish shipping under the leadership of a pirate named Moloch.

Writer

Zorro il ribelle

Zorro il ribelle · 1966

Zorro il ribelle

California, a province of the Spanish colony Mexico. Don Ramiro, the secretary of the tyrannical governor, is charged with assuring his son, don Luis, the chief of the military police, can marry Isaballe, the daughter of don Miguel, who plans to divide his land among his tenants, a recipe for revolt. Secretly don Ramoro is Zorro, the masked leader of the popular rebels. Both parties resort to desperate means, while don Carmello, the forcefully persuasive mission priest, guards morality.

Writer

The Young Caruso

The Young Caruso · 1951

The Young Caruso

MovieDramaMusic

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

First Assistant Director