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The Gold of Naples (1954)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
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 prostitute; the “professor” Ersilio Micci, a “wisdom seller”.
Length 131 minutes
Actors
Silvana Mangano | Sophia Loren | Eduardo De Filippo | Paolo Stoppa | Erno Crisa | Totò | Lianella Carell | Giacomo Furia | Tina Pica | Alberto Farnese | Tecla Scarano | Pasquale Cennamo | Agostino Salvietti | Pasquale Tartaro | Teresa De Vita | Vittorio De Sica | Pierino Bilancioni | Lars Borgström | Mario Passante | Ubaldo Maestri | Nino Imparato | Gianni Crosio | Roberto De Simone | Rosetta Dei | Irene Montaldo | Gigi Reder | Nino Vingelli