A veritable globetrotter. Laura Grisi travelled across the world throughout the 1960s. During her travels, she recorded the image and sound of the wind. These various winds make up the subject of this film. During the -Teatro delle Mostre"(La Tartaruga Gallery: Rome) collective exhibition in May 1968, Laura Grisi artificially reconstructed one of these winds. The film ends with this sequence, in which we see visitors immersed in this installation, experiencing this confrontation with the elements of nature for themselves.
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder.
"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the aftermath is inevitable, and a normal human condition, for which like the ancients one can only have pity and understanding.
There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch.
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire.
Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed.
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