One Hundred Thousand Dollars
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Directed by | Mario Camerini |
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Produced by | Carridi Oreste Barbieri |
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Edited by | Giovanna Del Bosco |
Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
Production company | Astra Film |
Distributed by | ENIC |
Release date | 23 March 1940 |
Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
One Hundred Thousand Dollars (Italian: Centomila dollari) is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Amedeo Nazzari and Lauro Gazzolo.[1]
It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fulvio Jacchia. It was part of the traditional of White Telephone comedies, popular during the era.
Synopsis[]
An American millionaire staying at a Budapest hotel falls in love with the telephone operator working there. When she refuses his advances because she already has a fiancée, he offers her a hundred thousand dollars to have dinner with him. Although she refuses, when her family find out the amount they pressure her to accept his offer.
Cast[]
- Assia Noris as Lily Zilay
- Amedeo Nazzari as Woods
- Lauro Gazzolo as Stefano Zilay
- Maurizio D'Ancora as Paolo
- Calisto Bertramo as Barton
- Ernesto Almirante as Michele Zilay
- Emilio Cigoli as Oldham
- Arturo Bragaglia as Paul, il guardino aeroporto
- Liana Del Balzo as Miss Vernon
- as Elena Zilay
- as Zita Zilay
- as Maria Zilay
- Giulio Battiferri as Un radiotelegrafista
- as Il borgomastro
- Ada Colangeli as Francesca, la moglie di Paul
- as Elsa, la telefonista
- Olinto Cristina as Il comandante dell'aeroporto di Budapest
- as Bartel, l'altro segretario
- as L'altra Lily
- as Un giornalista
References[]
- ^ Gundle p.169
Bibliography[]
- Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
External links[]
Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1940 films
- Italian films
- Italian comedy films
- 1940 comedy films
- 1940s Italian-language films
- Films directed by Mario Camerini
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films shot at Palatino Studios
- Italian films based on plays
- Films set in Budapest
- 1940s Italian film stubs