Volpone

Volpone (2003)

Actors: Olivier Bériot (costume designer), Noëlle Boisson (editor), Jean-Pierre Guérin (producer), Daniel Prévost (actor), Teresa Madruga (actress), Philippe Perrin (producer), António da Cunha Telles (producer), Yves Verhoeven (actor), Rui Luís (actor), Jacques Mathou (actor), Gérard Jugnot (actor), Jean-François Stévenin (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Ana Silva (miscellaneous crew), André Gago (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Um Sonho a Mais (1985)

Actors: Susana Vieira (actress), José Lewgoy (actor), Anselmo Vasconcelos (actor), Henriqueta Brieba (actress), Marcus Vinícius (actor), Ney Latorraca (actor), Anselmo Vasconcelos (actor), Antonio Pedro (actor), Ney Latorraca (actor), Carlos Kroeber (actor), Ney Latorraca (actor), Ney Latorraca (actor), Ney Latorraca (actor), Roberto Talma (director), Lauro César Muniz (writer),

Genres: ,

Volpone (1978)

Actors: Rolf Hoppe (actor), Jadranka Matkovic (actress), Friedrich Wilhelm Junge (actor), Rolf Dietrich (actor), Annelies Thomas (director),

Genres: Drama,

Borsalino and Co. (1974)

Actors: Marius Laurey (actor), Reinhard Kolldehoff (actor), Daniel Ivernel (actor), Marcel Gassouk (actor), Jean Abeillé (actor), Philippe Castelli (actor), Henri Attal (actor), Riccardo Cucciolla (actor), Bruno Balp (actor), Jacques Debary (actor), Alain Delon (actor), Anton Diffring (actor), Marc Eyraud (actor), André Falcon (actor), Sylvain Levignac (actor),

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,

Volpone (1974)

Actors: Lajos Básti (actor), Mariann Wieber (costume designer), Gellért Raksányi (actor), Ildikó Bánsági (actress), Ferenc Bessenyei (actor), Ferenc Kállai (actor), Sándor Kömíves (actor), Tamás Major (actor), János Rajz (actor), László Helyey (actor), Gábor Presser (composer), Györgyi Andai (actress), György Fehér (writer), Ben Jonson (writer), György Fehér (director),

Genres: Comedy,

Volpone (1970)

Actors: Stefan Zweig (writer), Otto Anton Eder (director), Ben Jonson (writer), Kurt Müller-Walden (actor), Helmut Wlasak (actor), Dietrich Schlederer (actor), Norbert Scharnagel (actor), Hubert Chaudoir (actor), Siegfried Lusch (actor), Werner Ruzicka (actor), Inge Brunner (actress), Brigitte Schmuck (actress), Karl Heinz Köhn (director), Hans Sojer (actor), Hans Stöckl (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

The Honey Pot (1967)

Actors: Yvonne Axeworthy (miscellaneous crew), Susan Hayward (actress), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (writer), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (director), Maggie Smith (actress), Frank Latimore (actor), John Addison (composer), Raymond Burr (actor), Mimmo Poli (actor), Cliff Robertson (actor), Adolfo Celi (actor), Massimo Serato (actor), Rex Harrison (actor), Edie Adams (actress), Herschel Bernardi (actor),

Plot: Inspired by a performance of his favorite play, "Volpone," 20th-century millionaire Cecil Fox devises an intricate plan to trick three of his former mistresses into believing he is dying. Although the women are wealthy in their own right, all have good reason to covet his fortune. To assist him in his scheme, Fox hires William McFly, a gigolo and sometime actor, to act as his secretary/servant. Fox is soon visited at his "deathbed" by the three former mistresses: Merle McGill, a fading Hollywood sex symbol; Princess Dominique, who once took a cruise on Fox's yacht; and Lone Star Crockett, a Texas hypochondriac who travels with an enigmatic nurse/companion. As Fox and McFly act out the charade, things take an unexpected turn from comical farce to full-blown murder mystery.

Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-play, battle-of-wits, dead-telephone, dumbwaiter, ex-boyfriend-ex-girlfriend-relationship, fake-illness, greed, heritage, hourglass
Genres: Comedy, Crime,
Taglines: You are cordially invited to enjoy a perfectly elegant case of murder!

Quotes:

NurseWatkins: I don't want to sound like a voice for morality, it makes him angry and you angry. But there are some things...::Fox: What things?::NurseWatkins: Not gold, perhaps, but still precious. Not negotiable, not even legal tender. Just tender.::Fox: Love, for example?::NurseWatkins: You can't even say it, you poor man, you make it sound like hate.

William McFly: What will you drink, ladies?::Mrs. Sheridan: Root beer.::William McFly: Well, I'm afraid we haven't any...::Mrs. Sheridan: [Cutting him off] Of course not! Billions of dollars exporting the American way of life, and most of the world still never heard of root beer!

Merle McGill: I guess it must be hard for you to understand, Inspector, a man like me and Cecil Fox.::Inspector Rizzi: Not hard at all.::Merle McGill: But how can I say it, Inspector... He was my first... man. Somehow you just never forget your first man.::Inspector Rizzi: I remember mine - vividly. [Merle throws him a curious glance]::Inspector Rizzi: He also got away.

Fox: Nothing like gold to pass the time. It is even the color of time... Gold. How little most people value time, little people. Like everything else, they will choose what's more, not what's better. Even time, they will pray to live 100, long, miserable years and feel cheated if they had say 50 of the best. Quantity yes, quality no. Venice is tiny and precious. Los Angeles is gigantic and terrifying. Who wants it? Most people, that's who. There's good time and bad time, you know, the clocks don't give a damn what time they measure. We do. We special ones. We slow down for the good. We sip it second by second like great wine. We speed up the bad. The little people, chumps, swallow time like hamburger. One hundred years of well done hamburger, they will all settle for that. If I were to tell you that for me, the next 10 minutes of my life will be fuller and richer than the next 10 years for any chump in London, Paris, Rome, New York, or Bangkok, would you know what the hell I was talking about?

Volpone (1964)

Actors: Annemone Haase (actress), Dieter Franke (actor), Hans Knötzsch (director), Stefan Zweig (writer), Wolf Kaiser (actor), Rolf Ludwig (actor), Willi Narloch (actor), Lissy Tempelhof (actress), Siegfried Weiß (actor), Gerd Biewer (actor), Hermann Hiesgen (actor), Ben Jonson (writer), Hans-Georg Voigt (actor), Rudolf Horn (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Volpone (1958)

Actors: Otto Tausig (director), Egon Geißler (actor), Hans-Joachim Hanisch (actor), Rolf Ludwig (actor), Alfred Maack (actor), Siegfried Weiß (actor), Stefan Zweig (writer), Franz Kutschera (actor), Peter Dornseif (actor), Wolfgang Hohensee (composer), Ulrich Folkmar (actor), Ben Jonson (writer), Hans Krebs (actor), Gerti Soltau (actress), Elfriede Garden (actress),

Genres: ,

Volpone (1941)

Actors: Marcel Cravenne (editor), Colette Régis (actress), Jacques de Baroncelli (director), Maurice Tourneur (director), Harry Baur (actor), Jean Témerson (actor), Stefan Zweig (writer), Louis Jouvet (actor), Robert Seller (actor), Fernand Ledoux (actor), Édouard Francomme (actor), Marcel Melrac (actor), Roger Blin (actor), Alexandre Rignault (actor), Alfred Baillou (actor),

Plot: Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.

Keywords: based-on-play, foreign-language-adaptation, theater
Genres: Comedy,