Vedi Napoli e poi muori (1951)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Riccardo Freda

Writers:

Ennio De Concini (story)
Alberto Vecchietti (story)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Enchanting! A Crowning Achievement! (print ad for U.S. release "See Naples and Die!")

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman

Cast

Gianna Maria Canale	...	Marisa
Renato Baldini	...	Giacomo Marini
Vittorio Sanipoli	...	Roberto Sanesi
Carlo Sposito		(as Carletto Sposito)
Duccio Sissia	...	Figlio di Marisa
Cicola Custureri
Franca Marzi	...	Amante di Sanesi
Claudio Villa
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vittoria Donato
Gimmi Doria
Nino Pavese

Directed by
Riccardo Freda

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ennio De Concini		story and screenplay
Alberto Vecchietti		story and screenplay

Produced by
Carlo Caiano	....	producer
Umberto Momi	....	producer

Original Music by
Carlo Innocenzi

Cinematography by
Gábor Pogány

Film Editing by
Otello Colangeli

Set Decoration by
Enzo Constantini
Piero Filippone

Makeup Department
Fulvia Dulac	....	hair stylist
Angelo Malantrucco	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Domenico Bologna	....	production manager
Marcello Simoni	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lodovico Borgo	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Raffaele Del Monte	....	sound
Pietro Seriffo	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Mario Capriotti	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Fernanda Materni	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Gino Fanano	....	production secretary
Luciano Momi	....	collaborator
Mario Tota	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Associati Produttori Indipendenti Film (API)

Distributors

• Crown (1959) (USA) (subtitled)

Also Known As:

See Naples and Die

Runtime:

USA:80 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Associati Produttori Indipendenti Film (API)

Italian Madame X

This is melodrama.The whole melodrama.Nothing but melodrama.Gianna Maria Canale -who,generally plays the treacherous beauty in peplums or swashbucklers-,suffers ,suffers, suffers:victim of her past,chased out by her virtuous hubby,estranged from her beloved son,persecuted by her ex-lover,etc.Nothing special but aficionados of the genre can have a look.

Riccardo Freda who tackled a lot of styles from the horror movie to the spy thriller would come back to melodrama in the sixties,when he adapted for the screen famous novels from the ninetieth century such as "Roger la Honte" and "Les deux orphelines" (which DW Griffith had already filmed as "orphans of the storm" in the silent era.