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Overview

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Director:
Melville Shavelson
Writers:
Michael Pertwee (story) &
Jack Davies (story) ...
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Release Date:
7 August 1960 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations more
User Comments:
A nice romantic comedy, in which a sexy Queen captures the 'King of Hollywood.' more

Cast

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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
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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

Fun Stuff

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. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Michael gives money to Lucia, he puts his wallet away twice. more
Quotes:
Mario Vitale: A man can be a pig and a lawyer at the same time. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
It Started in Naples more

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22 out of 26 people found the following comment useful:-
A nice romantic comedy, in which a sexy Queen captures the 'King of Hollywood.', 9 July 2003
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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?'

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