It Started in Naples (1960)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Melville Shavelson

Writers:

Michael Pertwee (story) &
Jack Davies (story) ...

Release Date:

7 August 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother...

Plot Keywords:

Italy | Place Name In Title | Beautiful Woman | Affair | Claim In Title

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations

Cast

Clark Gable	...	Michael Hamilton
Sophia Loren	...	Lucia Curcio
Vittorio De Sica	...	Mario Vitale
Marietto	...	Nando Hamilton
Paolo Carlini	...	Renzo
Giovanni Filidoro	...	Gennariello
Claudio Ermelli	...	Luigi
Bob Cunningham	...	Don Mc Guire - Train Passenger
Marco Tulli
Carlo Rizzo
Yvonne Monlaur

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) | West Germany:12 | France:U | Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Capri Productions

Trivia:

This was the last movie Clark Gable made that was released during his lifetime. The 33-year age difference between him and Sophia Loren was blamed for the film's poor performance. There was in fact some surprise that he had accepted the part, since at a press conference while filming But Not for Me (1959) he had announced that he was no longer going to play romantic leads.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Michael gives money to Lucia, he puts his wallet away twice.

Quotes:

Mario Vitale: A man can be a pig and a lawyer at the same time.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

It Started in Naples

A nice romantic comedy, in which a sexy Queen captures the 'King of Hollywood.'

Philadelphia lawyer Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable) arrives in Naples to settle the estate of his philandering brother...

He learns that his brother had taken a common-law wife who died with him in an automobile accident, leaving a ten-year-old lovechild named Nando...

Nando (Marietto) is looked after by his attractive aunt Lucia (Sophia Loren), a dazzling night-club dancer on Capri, who dreams of someday becoming a movie star...

Almost immediately, Mike and Lucia clash over the boy's upbringing...

Lucia wants to keep the lad and let him live as he chooses... The street urchin stays up half the night in the club, smokes cigarettes and indulges in trivial theft... Mike is aghast, and insists he be giving a proper formal and social education...

The matter is put to the court, but during the struggle for Marietto's affections, the couple fall in love and fight a lot when Hamilton makes it clear that marriage is out...

Photographed in Capri, the Island of Dreams, the pearl of the Mediterranean sea, the film is a nice romantic comedy in which a sexy Queen captures the 'King of Hollywood.'

Gable delivers one of the most memorable lines of the movie when he asks, at night, a waiter: 'How are people supposed to sleep on this island?'