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| Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
| Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis Marcello Girosi Carlo Ponti |
| Written by | Giuseppe Marotta (novel) Vittorio De Sica |
| Starring | Silvana Mangano Sophia Loren Paolo Stoppa Totò |
| Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
| Cinematography | Carlo Montuori |
| Editing by | Eraldo Da Roma |
| Distributed by | Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 11 February 1957 (USA) |
| Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
The Gold of Naples (Italian: L'oro di Napoli) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes: a clown exploited by a hoodlum; an inconsistent pizza seller (Loren) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a child; the impoverished inveterate gambler Count Prospero B. being reduced to force his concierge's preteen kid to play cards with him (and regularly being defeated); the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the exploits "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller" who "solves problems".
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