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The Gold of Naples (Italian: L'oro di Napoli [ˈlɔːro di ˈnaːpoli]) is a 1954 Italian anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
The Gold of Naples: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo, Agostino Salvietti. A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1957-02-11
Mar 18, 2015 · Film centers around four separate stories about life in everyday Naples. A clown, a pizza chef, a gambler and a lady of the evening enliven six stories of Neapolitan life.
- Vittorio De Sica
- Silvana Mangano
The Gold of Naples. 1954 1h 47m Comedy. List. NEW Updates to the Score. The Audience score is now the Popcornmeter. Read More. An anthology of stories set in Naples, Italy, where director...
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- Sophia Loren
- Vittorio De Sica
- Comedy
The granddaddy and gold standard of European omnibus films, adapted from stories by Giuseppe Marotta (and scripted with Marotta by De Sica and longtime collaborator Cesare Zavattini), runs the gamut from pure farce to outright tragedy, with Loren’s gyrating walk in the rain her star-making moment.
Six separate stories, all with wonderful characters, including one starring De Sica himself as a frustrated Count, ready to wager the family silver and country estates in a desperate attempt to win an ongoing card game against an unbeatable street urchin.
Overview. Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of six Napolitean episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a ...
