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...Little World of Don Camillo. A film version of Giovannino Guareschi's bestselling novel about a militant parish priest and a Communist mayor; with France's Fernandel, Italy's Gino Cervi (TIME...
Inevitably, the gang fell apart. Gino became a pervert and ended his life in jail. Carlo scrambled off to fight in Ethiopia and died for II Duce. Giorgio, the leader, became an antiFascist; it was he who taught Valerio that life meant more than the flashy nihilism of the Blackshirts...
...months ago the Montecatini Co., which runs the mine, put a notice on its bulletin board. "Meticulous research," it read, "has established that the mine, in effect, is exhausted." Some 860 of Cabernardi's 1,000 miners would have to be laid off permanently. "Unjust," cried Communist Miner Gino Santorelli. "Capitalistic maneuvers! The company must carry out more intelligent research." Father Gino Tomaselli, Cabernardi's parish priest, issued a quiet demurrer. "I am convinced," he told his parishioners, "that Montecatini has carried out all possible research. Unfortunately, very little of the mineral is left...
...after day Gino and his companions stayed down in the damp, hot (104°) shaft, 1,600 feet below the green vineyards of Cabernardi. They bedded down in mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note...
...continuity is shoddy in spots and the photography only average for such a highly-touted foreign film. But Pier Angeli and Gino Leurini head a well-acting cast with their sensitive portrayals of the young lovers...