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Decameron Nights

  • 19531953
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  • 1h 33m
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5.2/10
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Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan in Decameron Nights (1953)
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The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa wh... Read allThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding fol... Read allThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-... Read all
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    • Hugo Fregonese
    • Giovanni Boccaccio(novel "Tales from the Decameron, including Paganino the Pirate, Wager for Virtue and The Doctor's Daughter")
    • George Oppenheimer(screenplay)
    • Geza Herczeg(treatment)
  • Stars
    • Joan Fontaine
    • Louis Jourdan
    • Godfrey Tearle
    • Hugo Fregonese
    • Giovanni Boccaccio(novel "Tales from the Decameron, including Paganino the Pirate, Wager for Virtue and The Doctor's Daughter")
    • George Oppenheimer(screenplay)
    • Geza Herczeg(treatment)
  • Stars
    • Joan Fontaine
    • Louis Jourdan
    • Godfrey Tearle
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    • 6User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Joan Fontaine
    Joan Fontaine
    • Fiammetta…
    Louis Jourdan
    Louis Jourdan
    • Giovanni Boccaccio…
    Godfrey Tearle
    Godfrey Tearle
    • Ricciardo…
    Joan Collins
    Joan Collins
    • Pampinea…
    Binnie Barnes
    Binnie Barnes
    • Contessa di Firenze…
    Meinhart Maur
    • Sultan
    Gordon Whiting
    Gordon Bell
    • Merchant
    Van Boolen
    • Captain
    Melissa Stribling
    Melissa Stribling
    • Girl in Villa
    Stella Riley
    • Girl in Villa
    Mara Lane
    Mara Lane
    • Girl in Villa
    Gérard Tichy
    Gérard Tichy
      Diaz de Mendoza
      Carlos Villarías
      Carlos Villarías
        Eliot Makeham
        Eliot Makeham
        • Governor of Majorca
        Marjorie Rhodes
        • Signora Bucca
        Noel Purcell
        Noel Purcell
        • Father Francisco
          • Hugo Fregonese
          • Giovanni Boccaccio(novel "Tales from the Decameron, including Paganino the Pirate, Wager for Virtue and The Doctor's Daughter")
          • George Oppenheimer(screenplay)
          • Geza Herczeg(treatment)
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        • Trivia
          Peter Ustinov was originally to co- star, and also apparently contributed to the script.
        • Goofs
          As Boccaccio surveys the shore from his 14th century ship, a large white truck is visible on a road.
        • Quotes

          Fiammetta: But is there no way to keep you with me?

          Giovanni Boccaccio: Do you see this ring? When you wear this, and you bear me a child - then, and only then - will I become your husband in every sense of the contract.

          Fiammetta: But how can I wear your ring if you won't give it to me? And how can I give you a child if you - don't stay with me?

          Giovanni Boccaccio: You look like a resourceful woman.

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        6/10
        Medieval Italian romp
        Joan Fontaine reunites with her leading man from Letters From An Unknown Woman Louis Jourdan to present three tales from Giovanni Bocaccio in Decameron Nights. Bocaccio a most cynical fellow shares with the Countess Fiametta his rather cynical outlook on life and love. In many ways he and Don Juan have very similar views.

        In the framework of the film three of the almost 100 stories Bocaccio wrote are shared in the film with the leads playing the male and female protagonists. Personally I like the first one best where Jourdan makes good on his boast to have supper in the bedroom of Geoffrey Tearle's wife, much younger than him and played by Joan Collins. Who wouldn't risk life and limb for that?

        In years past Errol Flynn would have done justice to the part as would have others like Louis Hayward, Tyrone Power, and Douglas Fairbanks,Jr. Jourdan does more than very good with it and Fontaine finds the right note to use her beauty with a bit I've been around this track before wisdom.

        Decameron Nights was shot in Italy, the better to take advantage of the scenery already in place and medieval Italy in technicolor looks ravishing. Fontaine was on that side of the pond doing both Ivanhoe and an unbilled part in Orson Welles's Othello.

        Fans of both stars and Joan Collins will approve.
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          • November 16, 1953 (United States)
          • United Kingdom
          • Spain
          • English
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        • Filming locations
          • La Alhambra palace, Granada, Granada, Andalucía, Spain
        • Production companies
          • Cesáreo González Producciones Cinematográficas
          • Frankovich Productions
          • Suevia Films - Cesáreo González
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