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MADE IN ITALY. An assortment of scenes -some merely gentle sketches, some with stings in their tales-that portray modern-day Italy and the Italians. Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) directs a fine cast that includes Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak...
MADE IN ITALY. An assortment of scenes-some merely gentle sketches, some with stings in their tales-that portray modern-day Italy and the Italians. Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) directs a fine cast that includes Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak...
...should have been there to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, were absent. France's Jean Monnet, generally acknowledged as the father of the Common Market, did not receive an invitation, and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow who had all the fun was the one who deserved it least. He was Charles de Gaulle, whose narrow view of Europe has probably done most to harm the Common Market and slow...
...longer stories come equipped with stings in their tales and often seem to be born out of O. Henry by Moravia. In one of the most moving incidents, a girl (Catherine Spaak) puts on airs with a boy she has just met, describes Capri as a passe resort, and puts down her wealthy parents as "bourgeois." When he escorts her to her Roman town house, she climbs up the stairs-and then climbs down again as soon as he is gone. After descending still farther, she goes into the janitor's basement apartment, where her father greets her with...
Room 1026, the Audubon Suite, is occupied by Kevin McCarthy and Catherine Spaak, a hotel tycoon and the ornamental mistress he has purchased with his profits. A pious fraud who prays before he preys, McCarthy is determined by deal or steal to make the charming old hotel of the title just one more link in his chain. In an attempt to corrupt Hotel Manager Rod Taylor, McCarthy shamelessly offers him Spaak as a bribe. Rod likes, she likes. In the end, the villain misses a mistress...