Word: brides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Serena Russell, 22, debutante daughter of former. Vogue Publisher Edwin F. Russell and Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill (Winston's cousin); and R. Stephen Salant Jr., 25, Manhattan commodity broker; in a tense ceremony at which the bride's parents tried to smile away the fact that Mom was just in from Reno, where she'd gone to sue Dad for divorce, and Dad had just gone to court to prevent Mom from taking three other daughters out of the state; in Southampton...
...contrary, the lady's husband (Lando Buzzanca), a Sicilian yokel whose passion for honor is exceeded only by his lust for lucre, has hardly any difficulty deciding how much the honor of his bride (Maria Grazia Buccella) is worth. A few days later he discovers it was worth less than he thought. The police inform him that 1) the million-lira check has bounced, and 2) he will go to jail unless he can explain what he did to earn so much money...
...story of the bartered bride is older than Boccaccio, but this Italian retelling of the tale-the best of the film's four briskly lubricous episodes-is red-peppered with high spirits and low jinks. It provides much amusement for the young in gland, but more mature moviegoers may feel surfeited by 106 minutes of unadulterated adultery...
...hick who can't get the hang of English or even much pidgin and is unable to make the cultural struggle into a girdle. She is about to be supplemented by a "parlor wife." Odili, a man of many resources, wants this luscious literate for himself, despite the "bride price" being negotiated for her back home in the village by his patron, the gallant and ever-jovial Chief Nanga. Meanwhile, he attends cultural events, not the least of which is a night of instant integration with the wife of a U.S. information officer...
...debacle. Odili is beaten nearly to death by the chiefs forthright constituents, and it is back to the village for him. But all is well. A military coup deposes Nanga's gang, and, with a more or less good conscience, the convalescent Odili is able to pay the "bride price" for the now redundant "parlor wife." He does it from party funds...