GLORIOUS BASTA

If the movie were as good as the poster it would be an all-time classic.

Basta Guadarla isn’t a movie that fits our expanded definition of pulp, but its promo poster is so nice we decided to share it anyway. The scan of this we found is more than two-thousand pixels wide, and we’re considering sticking it in a frame. We deduced that it was painted by Giuliano Nistri because he painted the second poster, which you see below, and signed it, which leads us to believe both are his work. The movie is about a peasant girl played by Maria Grazia Buccella who joins a traveling musical revue called Silver Boy. Such revues were a thing in Italy and were known as avanspettacoli.

As we’ve mentioned before, Italian comedies are terrifyingly bad, residing somewhere between low budget variety television and Vaudeville. Basta Guadarla is the same, but actually has some charms. The most important of those is humor that works intermittently, but it also benefits from the beautiful Buccella, who at the end wears an outfit similar to the one on the poster, except there’s less of it. Instead of bikini bottoms it’s more of a paste-on dealie with no sides, a very sexy get-up. Still, the movie isn’t good enough to be recommendable. It premiered today in 1970.

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January 17

1950—The Great Brinks Robbery Occurs

In the U.S., eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts. The skillful execution of the crime, with only a bare minimum of clues left at the scene, results in the robbery being billed as “the crime of the century.” Despite this, all the members of the gang are later arrested.

January 17

1977—Gary Gilmore Is Executed

Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States. Gilmore’s story is later turned into a 1979 novel entitled The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, and the book wins the Pulitzer Prize for literature.

January 16

1942—Carole Lombard Dies in Plane Crash

American actress Carole Lombard, who was the highest paid star in Hollywood during the late 1930s, dies in the crash of TWA Flight 3, on which she was flying from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after headlining a war bond rally in support of America’s military efforts. She was thirty-three years old.

January 15

1919—Luxemburg and Liebknecht Are Killed

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Freikorps was a term applied to various paramilitary organizations that sprang up around Germany as soldiers returned in defeat from World War I. Members of these groups would later become prominent members of the SS.

January 14

1967—Summer of Love Begins

The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with between 20,000 to 30,000 people in attendance, their purpose being to promote their ideals of personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological preservation, and higher consciousness. The event is considered the beginning of the famed counterculture Summer of Love.