I was watching Antonioni's Il Grido and noted that the hero is played by an actor named Steve Cochran, who I've never heard of. It seems that Cochran appeared in some Warner movies between 1949-1952, even White Heat, with James Cagney. I assume he was one of the henchmen. Furthermore, he seems to have produced Il Grido with his company, Robert Alexander Productions. It would appear to be his only Italian movie, and one of the last that he made. In 1965 he went sailing near Guatemala, apparently scouting locations, and died at sea of a lung infection. Here is a partial list of his movies:

• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• White Heat (1949)
• The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
• Highway 301 (1950)
• Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
• I, Mobster (1958)
• The Beat Generation (1959)

Of this last work the poster claims:

The wild, weird, world of the Beatniks! ...Sullen rebels, defiant chicks...searching for a life of their own! The pads...the jazz...the dives... those frantic "way-out" parties... beyond belief!

There's an impressive tribute to Cochran here (among other things) and the standard Internet Movie Database entry.

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