The Gold of Naples

Dec 3, 1954

2h 11m

★ 7.3

A sextet of Neapolitan tales - six captivating stories - wry, delightful and dramatic with that special humor and temperament and that enduring zest for life that characterizes these volatile people...

Overview

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica

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Cast

Teresa (segment "Teresa")

Silvana Mangano

Sofia (segment Pizza on Credit)

Sophia Loren

Don Ersilio Miccio (segment "Il professore")

Eduardo De Filippo

Don Peppino, the widower (segment Pizza on Credit)

Paolo Stoppa

Don Nicola (segment "Teresa")

Erno Crisa

Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")

Totò

Carolina Petrillo (segment "Il guappo")

Lianella Carell

Rosario, Sofia's husband (segment Pizza on Credit)

Giacomo Furia

Old woman (segment "Il professore")

Tina Pica

Alfredo, Sofia's lover (segment Pizza on a Credit)

Alberto Farnese

Don Peppino's friend (segment Pizza on a Credit)

Tecla Scarano

Don Carmine Savarone (segment "Il guappo")

Pasquale Cennamo

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

7.5

Paisan

Dec 10, 1946

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

7.5

Domenica

Feb 2, 2001

Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.

4.0

Ventitré

Jan 21, 2004

In a small village of Naples three friends, Francis, Mimmo and Lello, manage to get a meeting with three beautiful Bulgarian girls known on the Internet, scheduled for Christmas. The wives alarmed try to stir the spirits of the three hot husbands, but the whole thing is just a trick of three Bulgarians with intent to deprive the people of their assets in the country and that the girls will not.

7.9

The Postman

Sep 22, 1994

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

6.5

The Knock Out Cop

Oct 25, 1973

Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.

5.7

A Husband for Anna

Aug 22, 1953

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

7.4

The Sucker

Mar 24, 1965

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

6.0

Perez.

Oct 2, 2014

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

7.3

Pater familias

Mar 14, 2003

No overview available.

4.1

Una notte

Mar 14, 2008

No overview available.

6.8

Libera

Dec 31, 1993

Three episodes. In the first, Aurora lives in a luxurious apartment. Among some workers called to her house, she recognizes an old lover, who returns to courting her, but then empties her house. In the second, a boy released from reform school discovers that his mother is actually his father: a transvestite. In the third, a newsagent, suspecting her husband, who constantly pretends to be ill, is cheating on her, places a video camera in her room. She records his sexual encounters on a videotape that she sells at newsstands. In his directorial debut, Corsicato demonstrates a sharp and poetic talent (he was Almodovar's assistant) in creating three portraits of women that are also portraits of his city, Naples.

7.0

Street Angel

Apr 9, 1928

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

7.4

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Dec 21, 1963

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

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6.0

Il Campanello

Jun 29, 2010

IL CAMPANELLO DI NOTTE, Farce in one act by Gaetano Donizetti, is set in Naples. Don Annibale Pistacchio, an old apothecary, have just married the young Serafina. Enrico, former lover of Serafina, interrupts constantly the wedding night showing on several disguises and calling at Pistacchio's drugstore by ringing the night bell, asking the unfortunate groom a preposterous list of prescriptions.

7.1

One Man Up

Aug 31, 2001

Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.

6.7

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Sep 8, 1992

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

6.4

The Baby and the Battleship

Jun 1, 1956

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.

6.4

Napoli milionaria!

Dec 18, 2023

Naples, 1942. To feed her family and respond to her husband Gennaro's inertia, Amalia is forced to enter the black market. To save his wife from prison, the man fakes his own death.