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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...
Naturally, a custody suit is filed, and naturally, De Sica, hired by Gable to represent him, pays more attention to Loren than to law. Some fine shouting matches occur, in one of which an enraged bystander, delivering a memorable non sequitur, shouts at Gable, "Get out of the Middle East...
...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...
...Anatomy of Love (Italian). Five short stories, somewhat uneven but generally diverting, with Vittorio De Sica and a brief appearance by Sophia Loren...
...Anatomy of Love (Lux Film Cines; Kassler), an Italian film that tells five short stories, is at its best in the two that star Vittorio De Sica: as a count who has lost everything but his nobility ("I'd decided not to outlive my youth no matter how rich I was"), and as a Naples bus driver, a laughing hedonist who has developed a talent for catching and lifting girls' skirts in the bus's snapping-jaw folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven...