Jack Lemmon
Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
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Avanti! is a 1972 American/Italian international co-production comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season.
Dec 17, 1972 · Avanti!: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews. A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Billy Wilder
- 1972-12-17
Based on the play by Samuel Taylor, this comedy finds Wendell Armbruster Jr. (Jack Lemmon) journeying to the Italian island of Ischia to claim the body of his millionaire father, who died while on...
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- Billy Wilder
- R
- Jack Lemmon
Harried straight-laced Baltimore-based business executive Wendell Armbruster, Jr. is rushing to Ischia, Italy to claim the body of his father, who died in a car accident. Wendell's father spent a month vacation by himself at the same Ischia resort every summer for the past 10 years.
Avanti! For more than 10 years, the American tycoon Walter Armbruster, Sr., has been accustomed to spend the month of Aug. 15 to Sept. 15 at the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Ischia, where the radioactive mud baths were said to be good for arthritis, acidity, gout and potency. Apparently they were.
When his millionaire father dies in an automobile accident, pompous American businessman Wendell Armbruster, Jr. must fly to Italy to claim the body. Arriving in Rome on a Saturday morning, Wendell immediately takes the train to Naples, followed by a boat trip to the resort island of Ischia, where his father died.
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Avanti! An uptight, middle-aged, married American journeys to Italy to claim the remains of his father, who was killed in an automobile accident. He learns that the old gent didn't die alone his English mistress was with him.
