rec.arts.movies.past-films

Bill Anderson wrote:

>Hey Brian! We made it into this week's Answer Man column:
>
>Q. Your reader wanted to know the name of a foreign comedy about an
>actor who starts out on top of a can of milk that a cow bumps into, and
>he rolls down the hill. The rest of the film has birds, flies and bees
>turning against him. The answer appears to be "Lo Scatenato." It was
>found by Brian Kraft in the newsgroup .
>
>Bill Anderson, Washington, .
>
>A. Movies Unlimited writes: "Italy's premier male model is attacked by
>the entire animal kingdom. Horses throw him, bees sting him, dogs bite
>him and bulls charge him! Is it only his imagination or is the harassed
>hunk the victim of a beastly plot?"
>
>Released in 1967, it stars Vittorio Gassman, Gila Golan and Martha Hyer,
>and is also known as "The Unchained" or "Tutti Frutti."

When I caught most of this movie on TV about 35 years ago, it made me an
immediate fan of Gassman whom I'd never heard of before. He was
hilarious, so years later when "Big Deal on Madonna Street" was showing
at the local arthouse theater, I went just because he was in it.

You know how easily that can happen - watching one old film instantly
makes you a big fan of an actor you never knew about. This year I
finally saw Ken Russell's "Savage Messiah" and suddenly I'm a new
admirer of the late Dorothy Tutin, years after her death from leukemia.