The Sex Machine

{{short description|1975 film by Pasquale Festa Campanile}} {{Infobox film | name = | image = Conviene far bene l'amore.jpg | director = [[Pasquale Festa Campanile]] | starring = {{plainlist| *[[Gigi Proietti]] *[[Agostina Belli]] *[[Eleonora Giorgi]] *[[Christian De Sica]] *[[Mario Scaccia]] *[[Adriana Asti]] }} | music = [[Fred Bongusto]] | cinematography = [[Franco Di Giacomo]] | editing = [[Sergio Montanari]] | released = {{Film date|1975}} | country = Italy | language = Italian }} '''''The Sex Machine''''' ({{Langx|it|Conviene far bene l'amore|lit=Love is worth making well"}}, also known as ''Love and Energy'') is a 1975 [[Science fiction film|sci-fi]] [[commedia sexy all'italiana]] film directed by [[Pasquale Festa Campanile]]. The film is based on a novel with the same name written by the same Campanile.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiavini |author2=Gian Filippo Pizzo |author3=Michele Tetro |title=Il grande cinema di fantascienza: da "2001" al 2001|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2001}}</ref>

== Cast == * [[Gigi Proietti]] as Prof. Enrico Coppola * [[Agostina Belli]] as Francesca Renzi * [[Eleonora Giorgi]] as Piera * [[Christian De Sica]] as Daniele Venturoli * [[Mario Scaccia]] as Mons. Alberoni * [[Adriana Asti]] as Irene Nobili * {{Interlanguage link|Franco Agostini|it}} as Dr. Spina * [[Monica Strebel]] as Angela * {{Interlanguage link|Quinto Parmeggiani|it}} as De Renzi * [[Gino Pernice]] as Coppola's Assistant * [[Mario Pisu]] as Minister * [[Franco Angrisano]] as Hotel Director * [[Enzo Robutti]] as Matteis * [[Oreste Lionello]] as Driver * {{Interlanguage link|Aldo Reggiani|it}} * [[Pietro Tordi]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== *Willis, Donald C. (1985), ''Variety's Complete Science Fiction Reviews'', Garland Publishing Inc., p. 299, {{ISBN|0824087127}}

==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb title|0072819}}

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