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6.4/10   173 votes
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Writers:
John Fante (novel)
John Fante (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 June 1957 (Sweden) more
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Plot:
Writer Nick and his wife Emily are expecting their first child. When a necessary home repair proves too costly to afford... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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(2 articles)
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Great little flick more (10 total)

Cast

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Judy Holliday ... Emily Rocco
Richard Conte ... Nick Rocco
Salvatore Baccaloni ... Papa Vittorio Rocco
Esther Minciotti ... Mama Pauletta Rocco
Joe De Santis ... Father Gondolfo
Silvio Minciotti ... Joe Muto
Penny Santon ... Carla Rocco
Arthur Lovejoy ... Mr. Jameson
Eleanor Audley ... Mrs. Jameson
Trudy Marshall ... Nora Gregory
Walter Conrad ... John Gregory
Sam Gilman ... Dr. Atchison
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Runtime:
91 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

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Salvatore Baccaloni's American film debut. more

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9 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Great little flick, 25 October 2000
Author: artzau from Sacramento, CA

This movie is a sleeper. Coming at a time when "homey" [not in the modern gangbanger sense of the term] was in vogue. A pregnant woman wants an addition to her house for the new baby and gets her father-in-law, the great opera singer, Salvatore Baccaloni, a carpenter with old fashioned Italian family values, to do the work, over her husband's (Richard Conte)reservations. Holliday was at her peak after her brush with the McCarthy witch hunters and gives a great performance in this display of cross-cultural and cross-ethnic clashes of values. A fun, entertaining movie. See it. Enjoy. Feel good for a change.

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