2+5: Missione Hydra (1966)

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Director

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Pietro Francisci (also credited as screenwriter and editor)

Storyline

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A spaceship from Hydra crashes on Sardinia. Aliens take a scientist, his daughter, technicians and spies hostage to fix their ship. After repairs, aliens abduct the humans but they rebel, sending the ship into deep space. (from IMDb)

Cast

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• Credited
• Uncredited A-Z
• Unidentified

Notes

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The images here are in 4/3 ratio, which is how it is presented on the blu-ray release. It seems it was filmed in this ratio and then cropped at the top and bottom for cinema release, rather than these images being cropped and missing information from the left and right. I considered cropping the images to 1.85/1 ratio which would have made the images bigger on our pages, but then you would have lost some actors in a few images such as the lecture, so I have left them as they were.

There is a lot of bad information to be found about this film online and elsewhere. The commentary on this blu-ray mixes up the identities of Snell and Ruffo, while ANICA mis-credits Leontine May in the role played by Leontine Snell.

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Cast

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Actors credited in the Italian version in credit order.

Leonora Ruffo
as Keyna

Mario Novelli
(credited as "Anthony Freeman")
as Paolo Bardi

Roland Lesaffre
as Professor Solmi

Kirk Morris
as Belsi

Alfio Caltabiano
as Artie

Leontine Snell
(credited as "Leontine")
as Luisa Solmi

Nando Angelini
as Morelli

Gianfranco De Angelis
(credited as "Giovanni De Angelis")
as Giulio

Mirella Panfili (c.s.c.)
Credit only

Gianni Solaro
(credited as "John Sun")
as Director of the Research Centre

Antonio Ho
as Doctor Chang
Uncertain identification based on the role named by ANICA. Ho has no other known credits.

John Chen
as Chang's assistant
Uncertain identification based on the role named by ANICA. Chen has no other known credits.

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Gordon Mitchell
as Murdu

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Uncredited actors A-Z

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Nello Appodia
as Dying alien

Luciano Bonanni
as Hydra robot

Angelo Casadei
as Lecture student

Pietro Francisci
as Maestro

Nadia Marsala
as Lecture student

Giulio Massimini
as Priest

Mario Meniconi
as Truck driver

Carlo Micolano
as Lecture student

Romano Milani
as Security officer on the film set

Renato Montalbano
as Doctor

Mario Pennisi
as Car driver

Additional actors who do not appear in the film, but are clearly seen in photographs

Sergio Fantoni
on-set image from Il leone di Amalfi (1950)

Vittorio Gassman
on-set image from Il leone di Amalfi (1950)

Sylva Koscina
on-set image from Le fatiche di Ercole (1958)

Gina Lollobrigida
on-set image from 'Na Sera 'e Maggio (1948)

Sophia Loren
on-set image from Attila (1954)

Steve Reeves
on-set image from Le fatiche di Ercole (1958)

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Unidentified actors

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Probably Massimo Sallusti

I still think the woman in red is probably Lucia Baldi

[Johan Melle]

4 is just Leontine Snell again wearing a costume.

14: Girl in first row on the right is Nadia Marsala. In the row behind her on the far right is Carlo Micolano.

16, 17A and 17 is Nello Appodia.

41 should be Giulio Massimini.

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14: Girl in first row on the right is Nadia Marsala. In the row behind her on the far right is Carlo Micolano.

16, 17A and 17 is Nello Appodia.

41 should be Giulio Massimini.

All added, thank you