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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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  • Director
    • Hugo Fregonese
  • Writers
    • 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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  • Director
    • Hugo Fregonese
  • Writers
    • 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
    • Fiammettaas Fiammetta…
    Louis Jourdan
    Louis Jourdan
    • Giovanni Boccaccioas Giovanni Boccaccio…
    Godfrey Tearle
    Godfrey Tearle
    • Ricciardoas Ricciardo…
    Joan Collins
    Joan Collins
    • Pampineaas Pampinea…
    Binnie Barnes
    Binnie Barnes
    • Contessa di Firenzeas Contessa di Firenze…
    Meinhart Maur
    • Sultanas Sultan
    Gordon Whiting
    Gordon Bell
    • Merchantas Merchant
    Van Boolen
    • Captainas Captain
    Melissa Stribling
    Melissa Stribling
    • Girl in Villaas Girl in Villa
    Stella Riley
    • Girl in Villaas Girl in Villa
    Mara Lane
    Mara Lane
    • Girl in Villaas Girl in Villa
    Gérard Tichy
    Gérard Tichy
      Diaz de Mendoza
      Carlos Villarías
      Carlos Villarías
        Eliot Makeham
        Eliot Makeham
        • Governor of Majorcaas Governor of Majorca
        Marjorie Rhodes
        • Signora Buccaas Signora Bucca
        Noel Purcell
        Noel Purcell
        • Father Franciscoas Father Francisco
        • Director
          • Hugo Fregonese
        • Writers
          • 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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        7/10
        20 years before Pier Paolo Pasolini.
        It was about 20 years before Pier Paolo Pasolini,whose version(1971) of Boccacio's work was much more daring,more erotic and bawdier;but it was 1953 and the censorship would not have tolerated such things.

        Let's say it: Fregonese's Decameron is at least as good,as entertaining ,nay more elegant and subtler than that of his Italian colleague.Everything is suggested ,full of (more or less)veiled innuendos and it works quite well:three segments based on three tales told by the writer or Flamette;and what a good idea to have the actors play the "real" plot and the fictions !Joan Fontaine ,for instance ,is cast against type as a ship's boy and later an oriental one ,complete with turban and she manages quite well ,in this Virginia Mayo style.French Louis Jourdan ,who is still living ,is ideally cast as the handsome lady killer:and what a pleasure to hear him say in his first language "Bon Voyage" or "rendezvous"!;the cinematography is splendid and the screenplay is remarkably constructed.
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        • Oct 20, 2012

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        • Release date
          • November 16, 1953 (United States)
        • Countries of origin
          • United Kingdom
          • Spain
        • Language
          • English
        • Also known as
          • Boccaccios Liebesnächte
        • 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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          1 hour 33 minutes
        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.37 : 1

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