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After 60 years, Dino De Laurentiis retains his zeal for making movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | De Laurentiis has been involved in producing such diverse movies as "Bitter Rice," "War and Peace," "Nights of Cabiria," "The Bible," "Waterloo," "Serpico," "Three Days of the Condor," "Ragtime" and "Conan the Barbarian." As executive producer or producer, he's had at least 60 movies under his belt, high-brow and low-brow, huge moneymakers and expensive flops. |
 | | De Laurentiis played a major role as producer in the postwar Italian films that stunned the world. |
 | | De Laurentiis built a huge new studio on the outskirts of Rome, called it Dinocitta (Dino city), and began producing spectacles with Hollywood stars: "War and Peace" (Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn), "Barrabas" (Anthony Quinn), "The Bible" (George C. Scott, Ava Gardner), "Anzio" (Robert Mitchum), "Waterloo" (Rod Steiger). |
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