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Gold of Naples. A great Italian director, Vittorio De Sica, makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica...
Gold of Naples (Ponti-De Laurentiis; DCA). Once there was an aging nobleman (Vittorio De Sica) who, having gambled away the better part of his estate, was registered incompetent and placed in the legal guardianship of his wife. The lady, of course, cut off her husband's funds at once, and his fever for the tables raged in impotence. Every day, when he went for his walk, the count would bully the doorman, who, fearing for his job, would force his son (Piero Bilancioni), a boy about ten years old, to play cards with...
...Gambler is one of four good reasons why the latest work of Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine, Bicycle Thief, Umberto D) to be released in the U.S. is a notable example of the rare sort of laughter that leaves in the mind a melancholy aftertone. The three other reasons, equally good, are the other episodes in this masterly collection of Giuseppe Marotta's tales of Naples, translated to the screen by Marotta, De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini...
Third item in this batch of operatic rarities: Arrigo Boïto's Mefistofele, newly recorded by RCA Victor on 2 LPs (with Boris Christoff, Giacinto Prandelli, Orietta Moscucci; Orchestra and Chorus of the Rome Opera conducted by Vittorio Gui). Known chiefly as a poet and mighty librettist (Verdi's Otello and Falstaff), Boïto always remained an interesting oddity as a composer; he premiered his version of Goethe's Faust at La Scala in 1868 only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more...
...quietly pointed out to the Italians that her country frowned on foreign aid for Communist-dominated enterprises, helped open the eyes of Italian businessmen to the fact that they did not have to accept supinely the Communists' control of labor unions. Italian business leaders, led by Vittorio Valletta, president of the big Fiat auto works, began to speak out plainly against Communist labor domination. Result: the Communists were ousted from dominance in Fiat's big Turin plant and scores of other factories; in the last two years the Italy-wide ratio of Communist to non-Communist union membership...