A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination
Pasquale Cennamo
- Don Carmine Savarone (segment "Il guappo")
- (as Pasquale Gennano)
Lars Borgström
- Federico - the Doorkeeper (segment "I giocatori")
- (as L. Borgoström)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMany cast and crew members, starting from Director Vittorio De Sica, stated that filming of this movie was a particularly good time for them all.
- Quotes
Don Saverio Petrillo (segment "Il guappo"): "My condolences, Don Carmine, my condolences. Come have dinner at our place." That's what you told him. "Tonight you shouldn't be alone. Honor us." And it's been 10 years he's honoring us, this scum bag.
- Alternate versionsThe segment on the funeral of a dead child was deleted from all release versions, and the short segment on the Professor only appeared in the original Italian version. For the remaining four episodes, the time was 107 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Le ciné-club de Radio-Canada: Film présenté: L'or de Naples (1959)
Featured review
gold of naples
I wish mildly to dissent from the love fest shown for this de Sica film by my nine IMDB colleagues below. I feel that, like most anthology movies, it is a mixed bag with some estimable sections, and some that are, frankly, on the dull side. Oddly enough, in a group of short films geared toward the comic end of the spectrum, I found that my two faves were the two most somber, namely the moving story of the prostitute Teresa who, remembering the cold world out there that she used to be in, chooses material comfort over love, and the very brief work that deals with a child's funeral procession along the Naples waterfront and that manages, in ten minutes of screen time, to get at the thin line that separates the joys of life from the bleakness of death. The three comedies, by contrast, I found way too broad and strained and excessively pushing the Italian stereotypical envelope, with too much yelling, weeping and general operatic histrionics in lieu of comedy. I will say, however, that Sophia Loren's breakthrough role as a pizza maker's unfaithful wife was striking, as well as a timely reminder that this greatest of Italian actresses could give Claudia and Gina stiff competition in the curvaceous dept. And De Sica's love for his home town comes through so vividly that you can almost smell the pasta puttanesca. B minus.
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- mossgrymk
- Sep 18, 2023
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Napuljsko zlato
- Filming locations
- Salita Cinesi, Rione Sanità, Naples, Campania, Italy(The switchback ramp featured in the vignette Il Guappo.)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $5,046
- Runtime2 hours 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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