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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 & 2 nominations
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
- TriviaDirector Vittorio De Sica, who also plays the role of Count Prospero, often used to pick up actors for his movies from the streets. He proposed the role of Count Prospero to lawyer Alfredo Jelardi, whom he had seen in action in a court in Naples and who was well known in Naples. De Sica invited the lawyer in a hotel in Naples to discuss the proposal: Jelardi was really interested, despite never having performed in any kind of recitation, but at the end he decided to refuse the proposal because the role remembered him too much some aspects of his private life. Jelardi asked De Sica to personally play the role drawing inspiration from him.
- 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)
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I am Italian and I saw this movie on TV a few days ago. I had not seen it in the past. Totò is absolutely fantastic in his role. But the most astonishing episode is that of the 'funeralino', the funeral of a child: that is very 'neapolitan' to me. Sorrow and attention to manners are co-existent and you never know whether it is true sorrow or pure acting. Paolo Stoppa is also excellent in his role as a new widower. Of course, the movie is quoted because of Sofia Loren, who was helping her husband in his job of making pizzas. This is the movie where her nickname 'la pizzaiola' came from. While watching it, I did not realize that it had been made so many years ago. It well deserves to be seen.
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- 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
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $5,046
- Runtime2 hours 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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