The Gold of Naples

L'Oro di Napoli
Poster
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
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Distributed by	Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures
Release dates	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 anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

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 unfaithful 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 of "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller" who "solves problems".

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")

References

External links

• The Gold of Naples at the Internet Movie Database