It Started in Naples is an American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies. The Technicolor cinematography was by Robert Surtees.
The film stars Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica and an Italian cast.
Only a few days before his planned wedding,...
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It Started in Naples is an American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies. The Technicolor cinematography was by Robert Surtees.
The film stars Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica and an Italian cast.
Only a few days before his planned wedding, Michael Hamilton (Gable), a Philadelphia lawyer, travels to Naples, Italy to handle the estate of his late brother, Joseph. Once in Naples, Michael discovers that his brother had a son -- nine-year-old Nando, who is being cared for by Lucia, a cabaret singer and the boy's maternal aunt (Loren). (The late Joseph Hamilton never married Nando's mother and drowned with her in a boat accident; meanwhile, Joseph Hamilton's wife, whom he left in 1950, is alive in Philadelphia.) Michael, who in the opening narration states he "was here before with...
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