John Fante Trailers
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John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an Italian-American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of a struggling writer, Arturo Bandini, in Depression-era Los Angeles. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel and is one in a series of four novels, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet". Ask the Dust was adapted into a film made in 2006, starring Colin Farrell. In his lifetime, Fante published five novels, one novella, and a short story collection. Additional works, including two novels, two novellas, and two short story collections, were published posthumously. His screenwriting credits include, most notably, Full of Life (1956), based on his 1952 novel by that name, Jeanne Eagels (1957), and the 1962 films Walk on the Wild Side and The Reluctant Saint.
Most Popular John Fante Trailers
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26 November 1968
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
30 October 2019
Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years.
26 May 1966
A big-game hunter's son and a Hindu boy brave the jungle in order to deliver a baby white elephant to an Indian temple.
03 April 1963
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
02 February 2006
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
05 September 1952
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
11 May 1935
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
01 September 1944
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
02 November 1962
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith.
21 February 1962
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam.
01 January 2001
About a largely unsung writer of the twentieth century: John Fante, the renegade author whose highly autobiographical novels illustrate his deep-rooted love of Los Angeles and his struggles working through poverty and prejudice.
01 November 1989
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers.
02 August 1957
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
02 October 1989
The social democrats of the sixties and seventies worked on their grand plan to build a highway network in Germany that every German citizen could reach within five minutes of their home.
25 December 1956
A father-in-law's visit makes life even more complicated for a struggling writer and his pregnant wife.
16 August 1940
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
01 January 1943
An unfinished omnibus film project by Orson Welles exploring Latin American life through documentary and dramatized non-fiction.
