Dardano Sacchetti
{{Short description|Italian screenwriter}}
Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944) is an Italian screenwriter who often worked with Italian directors Lamberto Bava and Lucio Fulci.
Screenwriting
Sacchetti was born in 1944,{{sfn|Hutchings|2017|p=281}} in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film The Cat o' Nine Tails.{{sfn|Hutchings|2017|p=281}} He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava.{{sfn|Hutchings|2017|p=281}}
He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s.{{sfn|Hutchings|2017|p=281}} Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production.{{sfn|Shipka|2011|p=26}}
Producers such as De Angelis would come to him and ask him to write two to five lines for a film in various genres such as adventure films, westerns and pornography.{{sfn|Shipka|2011|p=26}} Following this posters would be made for the films. When Foreign production had found interest in his write-ups, he would state that De Angelis would phone him and tell him which of the stories he had potential to sell and to write the scripts immediately.{{sfn|Shipka|2011|p=26}}
He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s.{{sfn|Hutchings|2017|p=281}} As of 2017, Sacchetti was still writing for film and television.{{sfn|Hutchings|2017|p=281}}
Partial filmography
:Note: The films listed as N/A are not necessarily chronological.
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Footnotes
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- {{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786469765 |year=2013 }}
- {{cite book
|last=Curti
|first=Roberto
|title=Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979
|publisher=McFarland
|isbn=978-1476629605
|year=2017
}}
- {{cite book | last= Curti | first= Roberto | title= Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 |publisher= McFarland |year= 2019 |isbn= 978-1476672434}}
- {{cite book
|last=Hutchings
|first=Peter
|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield
|year=2017
|title=Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema
|edition=2
|isbn=978-1538102442}}
- {{cite book
|last1=Kinnard
|first1=Roy
|last2=Crnkovich
|first2=Tony
|title=Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990
|publisher=McFarland
|isbn=978-1476662916
|year=2017
}}
- {{cite book
|last=Paul
|first=Louis
|title=Italian Horror Film Directors
|year=2015|publisher=McFarland
}}
- {{cite book|
last=Shipka|
first=Danny|
publisher=McFarland|
title=Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980|
year=2011|
isbn=978-0786486090}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0332417}}
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Category:Italian screenwriters