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Word: sica (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gable is a Philadelphia lawyer who flies to Naples to wind up the affairs of a black-sheep brother who has died when his sailboat capsized. Gable learns from Attorney Vittorio De Sica that his brother's estate consists of $14,000 worth of unsalable fireworks and the rocket-propelled Marietto, a by-blow for freedom conceived with the help of an unmarried lady who is also dead. The boy lives in Capri with his Aunt Sophia, a cabaret canary who describes herself aptly as Gable's "sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Roof. Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica finds a subtler way of saying that the sun in sunny Italy shines only on the rich (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: BEST PICTURES OF 1959 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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