The Gold of Naples

Infobox Film
name = L'Oro di Napoli


image_size = 220px
caption = Poster
director = Vittorio De Sica
producer = Dino De Laurentiis
Marcello Girosi
Carlo Ponti
writer = Giuseppe Marotta (novel)
Vittorio De Sica
narrator =
starring = Silvana Mangano
Sophia Loren
Paolo Stoppa
Totò
music = Alessandro Cicognini
cinematography = Carlo Montuori
editing = Eraldo Da Roma
distributor = Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures
released = 11 February 1957 (USA)
runtime = 131 minutes
country = ITA
language = Italian language
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0047313

"L'oro di Napoli" (English: "The Gold of Naples") is a 1954 Italian Golden Palm nominated comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film is considered a masterpiece in Italian cinema.Fact|date=December 2007

Plot overview

The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconsistent pizza seller (Sofia) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".

Cast

*Silvana Mangano ... Teresa (segment "Teresa")
*Sophia Loren ... Sofia (segment "Pizze a credito")
*Eduardo De Filippo ... Don Ersilio Miccio (segment "Il professore")
*Paolo Stoppa ... Don Peppino, il vedovo (segment "Pizze a credito")
*Erno Crisa ... Don Nicola (segment "Teresa")
*Totò ... Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")
*Lianella Carell ... Carolina, sua moglie (segment "Il guappo")
*Giacomo Furia ... Rosario, marito di Sofia (segment "Pizze a credito")
*Tina Pica ... La donna anziana (segment "Il professore")
*Alberto Farnese ... Alfredo, l'amante di Sofia (segment "Pizze a credito")
*Tecla Scarano ... L'amica del vedovo (segment "Pizze a credito")

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