Valentina Cortese and Lee J. Cobb, "The House on Telegraph Hill" (1951) directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), with Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien. In Europe she starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Le Amiche" (1955), Gérard Brach's "The Boat on the Grass" (1971), Terry Gilliam's British film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), and in Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" (1972), the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977) and the film "Sparrow" (1993). Her final American film role was in "When Time Ran Out"
Baron Munchausen the filmmaker Josef von Báky to direct "Münchhausen", a big-budget color film about the Baron. David Stewart Hull describes Hans Albers's Baron as "jovial but somewhat sinister", while Tobias Nagle writes that Albers imparts "a male and muscular zest for action and testosterone-driven adventure". A German musical comedy, "Münchhausen in Afrika", made as a vehicle for the Austrian singing star Peter Alexander, appeared in 1957. Karel Zeman's 1961 Czech film "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen" commented on the Baron's adventures from a contemporary perspective, highlighting the importance of the poetic imagination to scientific achievement; Zeman's stylized "mise-en-scène", based on Doré's illustrations