Piero Pierotti

1912-01-01 Pisa, Tuscany, Italy 36 Credits

Biography

Piero Pierotti was an Italian film director and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the late 1960s. Born in Pisa, Tuscany, he began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to various Italian films. Pierotti made his directorial debut with The Last of the Vikings (1961), a historical adventure film. He continued to explore adventure and historical themes with films like Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963) and The Adventurer of Tortuga (1965). Pierotti's work is characterized by its dynamic ...

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La grande avventura di Scaramouche

La grande avventura di Scaramouche

1972

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

At the beginning Scaramouche saves a woman from some nasty swordsmen who attempt to murder her , she is really a powerful countesss and Queen's friend...

Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere

Robin Hood, l'invincibile arciere

1970

Screenplay

Writing

Robin Hood tries to help a crossed gentleman, in love with Isabel, because the girl's uncle has decided to marry her with another.

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis

1969

Story, Writer

Writing

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.

Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails

1969

Director, Story, Screenplay

4.8
Directing Writing

Shanda is charged with the murder of the banker, Burton and to save her from being lynched, the sheriff sends her off to Phoenix. During the trip the ...

Son of Black Eagle

Son of Black Eagle

1968

Screenplay

4.5
Writing
Assault on the State Treasure

Assault on the State Treasure

1967

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.8
Directing Writing

Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world ar...

Zorro il ribelle

Zorro il ribelle

1966

Writer, Director

5.5
Writing Directing

California, a province of the Spanish colony Mexico. Don Ramiro, the secretary of the tyrannical governor, is charged with assuring his son, don Luis,...

SuperSeven Calling Cairo

SuperSeven Calling Cairo

1965

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.

Giant of the Evil Island

Giant of the Evil Island

1965

Writer, Director

4.5
Writing Directing

A Spanish sea captain is sent to clean out Evil Island, from where pirate bands are raiding Spanish shipping under the leadership of a pirate named Mo...

Lost Treasure of the Incas

Lost Treasure of the Incas

1964

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, ...

Hercules Against Rome

Hercules Against Rome

1964

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in ...

The Avenger of Venice

The Avenger of Venice

1964

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tu...

War of the Zombies

War of the Zombies

1964

Screenplay

3.6
Writing

A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!

Hercules and the Pirates

Hercules and the Pirates

1964

Writer

4.0
Writing

aka Hercules and the Black Pirates. Brave and noble Samson fights pirates as a soldier in the royal army. He wants to marry lovely fair maiden Rosita,...

The Tyrant of Castile

The Tyrant of Castile

1963

Writer

5.5
Writing

it's a fast moving blood and thunder tale well rendered and at least rooted in fact, and has a good feel for the period. It's interesting to have a lo...

Hercules and the Masked Rider

Hercules and the Masked Rider

1963

Director, Screenplay

3.3
Directing Writing

In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the famil...

Napoleone a Firenze

1963

Director, Writer

Directing Writing
A Queen for Caesar

A Queen for Caesar

1962

Director

5.2
Directing

Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo

1962

Director, Writer

4.2
Directing Writing

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

The Witch's Curse

The Witch's Curse

1962

Writer

4.6
Writing

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Planets Around Us

Planets Around Us

1962

Writer

3.0
Writing

An alien race sends cyborgs — made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet — to Earth to help pave...

Erik the Conqueror

Erik the Conqueror

1961

Story, Screenplay

6.4
Writing

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nea...

Knight of 100 Faces

Knight of 100 Faces

1960

Screenplay

Writing

Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.

Cavalcata selvaggia

Cavalcata selvaggia

1960

Writer, Director

Writing Directing
The Pirate and the Slave Girl

The Pirate and the Slave Girl

1959

Director, Story, Screenplay

4.8
Directing Writing

When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Dieg...

The Black Archer

The Black Archer

1959

Screenplay, Story, Director

4.0
Writing Directing

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina

1958

Screenplay, Story

7.0
Writing

Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German pol...

The Love Specialist

The Love Specialist

1957

Co-Writer

5.8
Writing

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but thing...

La trovatella di Pompei

La trovatella di Pompei

1957

First Assistant Director

Directing

Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy fr...

Porta un bacione a Firenze

Porta un bacione a Firenze

1955

Story

Writing

After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets A...

Beautiful But Dangerous

Beautiful But Dangerous

1955

Screenplay, Second Unit Director

6.0
Writing Directing

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his ...

The Intruder

The Intruder

1955

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters he...

The White Angel

The White Angel

1955

Story

6.1
Writing

In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for h...

Guai ai vinti

Guai ai vinti

1954

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman d...

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

1953

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of hi...

The Young Caruso

The Young Caruso

1951

First Assistant Director

6.0
Directing

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.