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Matrimonio all'italiana

C. C. Champion

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Marriage Italian Style

Sophia Loren

Marcello Mastroianni

Aldo Puglisi

Tecla Scarano

Marilù Tolo

Gianni Ridolfi

Generoso Cortini

Vito Moricone

Rita Piccione

Lino Mattera

Alfio Vita

Alberto Gastaldi

Anna Santoro

Enza Maggi

Mara Maryl

Antonietta D'Onofrio

Raffaello Rossi Bussola

Pia Lindström

Salvatore Porcaro

Piero De Bernardi

Renato Castellani

Eduardo De Filippo

Adriana Novelli

Armando Trovajoli

Vittorio De Sica

Carlo Ponti

Tonino Guerra

Leonardo Benvenuti

Titina De Filippo

Mario Abussi

Carlo Egidi

Piero Tosi

Elvira D'Amico

Giorgio Russo

Vittorio Bucci

Amalia Paoletti

Ennio Sensi

Ada Palombi

Matteo Spinola

Franco Di Giacomo

Giuseppe Banchelli

Giuseppe Annunziata

Dario Micheli

Nino Cristiani

Roberto Gerardi

Marisa Letti

Vera Marzot

Vittorio De Sisti

Alfredo Melidoni

Jone Tuzi

Franco Indovina

Franco Montemurro

Claudio Mancini

Luisa Alessandri

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Sometimes when you watch Sophia Loren's Hollywood efforts, she can look a bit unnatural - forced, even. Put her in front of Vittorio De Sica and pair her with Marcello Mastroianni, though, and she is in her element - and that makes for a really enjoyable comedy drama here. It's all set in Naples after the end of WWII when the wealthy "Don Domenico" alights on the seventeen year old, down at heel, hooker "Filumena" and over the years she becomes his mistress whom he supports comfortably. His eyes are set on a younger women for marriage and when "Filumena" discovers this she plays the ultimate of tricks on her beau forcing him to marry her instead. It's a short lived victory, however, when it transpires that her motives were less than honourable and that she has three children only one of whom is his! She won't tell him whom, he is desperate to know - will it end in tears of joy or disaster? It does take a little bit of time for us to get up to speed, but once we are in a higher gear this is a wittily written and funny story that sort of becomes a battle of the sexes - a battle of wits, certainly! Mastroianni and Loren have chemistry a-plenty between them and you can't help but have sympathy for his poor old sidekick "Alfredo" (Aldo Puglisi) too, as the romantic mayhem ensues in quite a stylish fashion. It's really well worth a watch, this - two stars at the top of their game and some fine location photography and rickety old cars!

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