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Overview

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5.9/10   80 votes
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Writers:
Ennio De Concini (writer)
Flora Sandstrom (novel)
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Release Date:
4 May 1962 (Finland) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
She's a Honeyhaired Dish of Dynamite - Who Explodes Joy On the Screen! more
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User Comments:
early sixties sex comedy that doesn't quite work more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Maurice Chevalier ... Father Antonio

Angie Dickinson ... Jessica
Noël-Noël ... Old Crupi
Gabriele Ferzetti ... Edmondo Raumo
Sylva Koscina ... Nunzia Tuffi

Agnes Moorehead ... Maria Lombardo
Marcel Dalio ... Luigi Tuffi
Antonio Cifariello ... Gianni Crupi
Marina Berti ... Filippella Risino
Georgette Anys ... Mamma Parigi
Kerima ... Virginia Toriello
Carlo Croccolo ... Beppi Toriello
Rossana Rory ... Rosa Masudino
Manuela Rinaldi ... Lucia Casabranca
Angelo Galassi ... Antonio Risino
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
La sage-femme, le curé et le bon Dieu (France)
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Runtime:
112 min
Country:
France | USA | Italy
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:Btl
Filming Locations:
Forza d'Agrò, Messina, Sicily, Italy
Company:
Dear Film Produzione more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Jessica: You think that they're right to do a thing like this to me? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Wild Seed (1965) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
early sixties sex comedy that doesn't quite work, 8 December 2007
3/10
Author: gaynor.wild from nashville, tn

The basic plot line is that Jessica (Angie Dickinson), who is new in a small Italian village, and is working as a midwife, frightens the town's women. They fear she will steal their husbands, as she is presented as being amazingly alluring to all the men. The main problem with this premise, at least from a man's point of view, is that Silva Koscina, who plays one of the wives, is far more attractive, both facially and overall physically, than Angie Dickinson. (Perhaps the Italian men were mesmerized by Ms. Dickinson's blonde hair.) The women are presented as getting together and planning to deny their husbands sex, in order to prevent pregnancies and therefore drive the midwife out of town. The plots of comedies are expected to be kind of dumb, but this one really takes the cake: they deny both their husbands and themselves any sex, because they are jealous of a new woman? How many women do you know who would react that way? Three stars out of ten, and while I'm at it, Maurice Chevalier really can't sing, can he?

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