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"
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen Among the exciting and satiric adventures are sword and sea battles with the Turks, being swallowed by a giant fish, and ending the conflict between two warring kingdoms. The film was released internationally throughout the 1960s, including a 1964 American dub under "The Fabulous Baron Munchausen". Howard Thompson of "The New York Times" described it as "a delectable oddity with a perky, intriguing music track," and writer Harlan Ellison termed it a "charming and sweethearted 1961 Czech fantasy filled with loopy special effects." César Santos Fontenla of "" called the film "a masterpiece" and added: "the film is undoubtedly the