Title: Gold of Naples /
Authors: De Sica, Vittorio, 1901-1974,; De Laurentiis, Dino; Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007; Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989,; Totò, 1898-1967; Marotta, Guiseppe.; Audio Brandon Films.; Ponti-De Laurentiis (Firm)
Publisher: Audio Brandon,
Year: 1954
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Prostitutes Italy Rome Drama.; Women Italy Social conditions.; Poor families.; Women Sexual behavior.; School children Italy Drama.; Youth; Adultery; Italy Economic conditions Drama.
Abstract: This was one of several collaborations De Sica engaged in with renowned screenwriter Cesare Zavattini. Director De Sica who began his career as an actor, plays the part of an aging count who passes his time gambling with the son of his doorman who consistently beats him at cards. The boy only plays cards with the count at the insistence of his father, but he finds the activity boring while he simultaneously strips the count of all his valuables. Tribute to Naples, is a collection of six Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; a pizza seller (Sophia Loren) losing her husband's ring ; the funeral of a dead child ; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a boy; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute ; and the professor Ersilio Micci, a wisdom seller. The film is charming portrait of life in Naples immediately after the war. Zavattini was one of the most prolific script writers of the Italian cinema. He spent the postwar years working with De Sica on what are now considered to be the milestones of Italian neorealist cinema.