A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination
Pasquale Cennamo
- Don Carmine Savarone (segment "Il guappo")
- (as Pasquale Gennano)
Lars Borgström
- Federico - the Doorkeeper (segment "I giocatori")
- (as L. Borgoström)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMany cast and crew members, starting from Director Vittorio De Sica, stated that filming of this movie was a particularly good time for them all.
- Quotes
Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo"): "My condolences, Don Carmine, my condolences. Come have dinner at our place." That's what you told him. "Tonight you shouldn't be alone. Honor us." And it's been 10 years he's honoring us, this scum bag.
- Alternate versionsThe segment on the funeral of a dead child was deleted from all release versions, and the short segment on the Professor only appeared in the original Italian version. For the remaining four episodes, the time was 107 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Le ciné-club de Radio-Canada: Film présenté: L'or de Naples (1959)
Featured review
One of de Sica's major comedies and perhaps the best of them all
Vittorio de Sica knew his home town Naples by heart, as he, like his favourite actress Sofia Loren, practically had grown up there from the gutter. In these six episodes are reflected different insights and aspects of Napolitan life, reflecting both comedy, tragedy, drama and, as always in de Sica's films, deep humanity. One of the episodes is dedicated entirely to a funeral procession of a dead child. The most dramatic episode is the fifth with Silvana Mangano getting married to an unknown man, naturally she is shy and feels rather uncertain about the venture, and gradually the whole scheme of the situation unfolds, and she naturally reacts. Her performance is the most memorable in this film. Sophia Loren is still very young here and brilliant as a pizza hostess selling in the streets with her husband and extricating herself magnificently out of a scandal. Vittorio de Sica plays the lead himself in one of the episodes, actually making a satire out of himself, as he was a great gambler himself and needed some detachment and to handle the situation, which this sequence illustrates perfectly. The brilliant comedian Totó introduces the episodes in a very domestic situation of outrageous difficulties and awkwardness, and he manages it in a very Italian way. In brief, these six chapters of daily life in Naples in 1954 will go through to eternity with the rest of de Sica's films as timeless and ageless expressions of deep sympathy and keen warm-hearted observation.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Napuljsko zlato
- Filming locations
- Salita Cinesi, Rione Sanità, Naples, Campania, Italy(The switchback ramp featured in the vignette Il Guappo.)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $5,046
- Runtime2 hours 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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