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

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6.5

The Knock Out Cop

Oct 25, 1973

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

6.1

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

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Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a young man asks him permission to kill his father.

5.8

Benvenuti in casa Esposito

Sep 23, 2021

Tonino Esposito is the son of the fearsome Camorra boss of Rione Sanità, Naples. Unlike him, however, Tonino is clumsy and utterly innocuous—a decent person at heart—and so when his father dies he's passed over in matters of succession. His pride wounded, he doesn't resign himself and tries to be his own boss, only managing to make a fool of himself. When he finds out that his daughter is dating to the son of the judge prosecuting the new boss, Tonino sees the opportunity to prove himself in front of his family and all of Naples.

7.3

Journey to Italy

Sep 7, 1954

This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.

5.2

Sono solo fantasmi

Nov 14, 2019

Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.

7.6

I'm Starting from Three

Mar 5, 1981

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

8.0

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.

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

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".

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.

7.7

The Leopard

Mar 27, 1963

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

7.6

Paisan

Dec 10, 1946

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6.3

It Started in Naples

Aug 6, 1960

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.

6.1

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.

7.5

Seven Beauties

Dec 20, 1975

Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.

7.5

Scent of a Woman

Dec 20, 1974

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

6.7

Welcome to the South

Oct 1, 2010

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

6.0

Troubling Love

Apr 12, 1995

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that shaped her family history.

7.1

That Hamilton Woman

Apr 3, 1941

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.