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The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli)


Director: Vittorio De Sica

Genre: Drama

Year: 1954

Running time: 138 minutes

Territory: UK and Ireland

Studio: StudioCanal

Cast: Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo

Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing 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 prostitute ; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".




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