{{short description|1951 film}} {{for multi|the 2006 Korean [[martial arts]] film|The City of Violence|the 2017 album by [[Shane Nicholson (singer)]]|Love and Blood (album)}}
{{use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Love and Blood | image =Love and Blood.jpg | caption = French film poster | director =[[Marino Girolami]] | producer = [[William A. Szekeley]] | writer ={{ubl|[[Gino De Santis]]|[[Ernst Marischka]]|[[Paola Ojetti]]}} | starring = {{ubl|[[Maria Montez]]|[[Alan Curtis (American actor)|Alan Curtis]]}} | music =[[Renzo Rossellini (composer)|Renzo Rossellini]] | cinematography =[[Anchise Brizzi]] | editing = [[Loris Bellero]] | studio = {{plainlist| * A. B. Film * Comedia-Film * La Quercia Produzione Film }} | distributor = | released = {{film date|1951|4|5|df=y}} | runtime = 86 minutes | country = {{ubl|Italy|West Germany}} | language = Italian | budget = }} '''''Love and Blood''''' ({{langx|it|'''Amore e sangue'''}}) is a 1951 Italian-German [[crime film|crime]] [[melodrama film]] directed by [[Marino Girolami]] and starring [[Maria Montez]] in one of her last roles.<ref>[http://mariamontez.org/amoreesangue2.html ''Amore e Sangue''] at Maria Montez Fan Fage</ref> It was also known as ''City of Violence''. The film's [[art direction]] was by [[Max Mellin]] and [[Rolf Zehetbauer]].
A separate German-language version ''[[Shadows Over Naples]]'' was also made, directed by [[Hans Wolff (director)|Hans Wolff]].{{sfn|Bock|Bergfelder|p=546}}
==Cast== {{cast listing| * [[Maria Montez]] as Dolores * [[Massimo Serato]] as Peppuccio * [[Hans Söhnker]] as Marco, capo camorra * [[Carlo Giustini]] as Paolo * {{ill|Mirella Uberti|it}} as Nennella * [[Folco Lulli]] as Pietro * [[Andrea Checchi]] * [[Josef Meinrad]] as Otto * Vittorio De Sosti * [[Alan Curtis (American actor)|Alan Curtis]] * [[Pina Piovani]] * [[Dina Romano]] * Riccardo Valente * [[Diego Pozzetto]] * [[Dario Michaelis]] * [[Siegfried Breuer]] * Pasquale Fasciano as Ercole * [[Liana Del Balzo]] * [[Petra Peters]] * [[Clelia Matania]] * [[Otto Wernicke]] * Domenico Baiardo * {{ill|Viktor Afritsch|de}} * [[Ursula Herking]] * Anita Angius * [[Ernst Rotmund]] * [[Giulio Battiferri]] }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Bock|Bergfelder}} | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0044002}} * {{IMDb title|0043281|Love and Blood}} * [http://mariamontez.org/amoreesangue2.html Film information at Mariamontez.org]
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