Star Maker (The)
Original Title
L'uomo Delle Stelle- Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
- Writer: Fabio Rinaudo; Giuseppe Tornatore
- Producer: Vittorio Cecchi Gori; Mario Cotone
CGiii Comment
'Dottore' Joe Moretti travels round Sicily doing screen tests for the big Roman studios. He's a conman and takes money or favours for his efforts. Beata, a young illiterate convent girl desperately wants to change her life and falls for him, belatedly he realises his feelings for her. Their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.
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Cast & Characters
Sergio Castellitto as Joe Morelli;
Tiziana Lodato as Beata;
Franco Scaldati as Brigadiere Mastropaolo;
Leopoldo Trieste as Mute;
Clelia Rondinella as Anna's mother;
Tano Cimarosa as Grandpa Bordonaro;
Nicola Di Pinto as Communal Functionary;
Costantino Carrozza as The Collector;
Jane Alexander as Princess;
Tony Sperandeo as 1st Baldalamenti;
Leo Gullotta as Vito;
Luigi Maria Burruano as Flirtatious Client;
Carmelo Di Mazzarelli as Old Man in Wheelchair;
Antonella Attili as Nurse;
Domenico Dolce as Peasant on Bus