Walter Chiari
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What Scoundrels Men Are! (Italian: Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!) is a 1932 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini.The film was a great success, De Sica and Lia Franca became stars and the song Parlami d'amore Mariù was a hit.
What Scoundrels Men Are! is a deceptively simple romantic comedy in the Hollywood vein, but there are a lot of interesting characteristics that sneak their way in. Its boy-meets-girl plot becomes tangled in a web of fascist/conservative familial values and technological promotion.
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- Società Italiana Cines
- Mario Camerini
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t ...
- Mario Camerini
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- Maria Denis
Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t ...
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni...: Directed by Mario Camerini. With Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti, Giacomo Moschini. Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Mario Camerini
- 1933-12-18
The Image: When the taverna owner's wife exclaims the title of the film, "What Scoundrels Men Are!'Bruno (Vittorio De Sica) has caddishly abandoned Mariucci...
- 3 min
- 63
- The aesthetic of the Image: [world] cinema clips
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The film was a great success, De Sica and Lia Franca became stars and the song Parlami d’amore Mariù was a hit. Rarelly in Italian film history, it was filmed on real Milan locations, nowadays it is a sort of documentary how was Milan in the 30s.
