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But that's not the reason why I declare this film as the best melodrama, but because I identify with the character Salvatore. Yes, this film is the best European melodrama I've seen, even the best in the world, much better than the Indian ones with Raj Kapoor. I'll have to watch a few other melodramas I saw as a child and compare, but from what I can judge now as an adult, it's the strongest. I'm thinking of other films like the English "Our Mother's House" (1967), the French "The Adventures of Remi" Original title: Sans famille (1958), the Greek "The Shoe-Shine Boy" Original title: O loustrakos (1962) and another Italian "Misunderstood" Original title: Incompreso (Vita col figlio) (1966). The child Edoardo Nevola is extraordinary in the role of the orphan looking for his mother, and the director Glauco Pellegrini shows a very good knowledge of the human soul. Alida Valli is convincing in the role of the mother who abandoned her son, and Francisco Rabal is very good in the role of the man who wants a son. I saw the prolific Spanish actor Francisco Rabal in important films, true masterpieces, such as "Viridiana" (1961), "L'Eclisse (1962), "Belle de Jour" (1967), "The Desert of the Tartars" (1976). "Since I've been here in Rome I've always felt the need to steal and it's the atmosphere that's to blame", is a nice line at minute 58.30, said by the orphan boy Salvatore, to the thief played by Memmo Carotenuto. And the scene in which Salvatore provides a marionette-voice for a mother pining for her lost son, alongside marionette-theatre operator Gennaro, played by Eduardo De Filippo, it's extremely moving.

A film with annoying characters, the most annoying being the Scotland Yard inspector who comes to solve the mystery of the murders. Then, annoying is the young man who stages murders before the actual murders. Then, annoying is the mother of the young man who stages murders. Then, the rest of the characters. Seeing the names of Michele Lupo and Gastone Moschin, who worked together to make the excellent "Seven Times Seven" Original title: Sette volte sette (1969), I hoped that I would see a comedy at least as successful. I was sorely mistaken, this production is a total cretinous nonsense. The glaring mistake: after the Scotland Yard inspector together with the policeman played by Gastone Moschin completely demolish the door behind which one of the victims had just "committed suicide", the door is intact. With the exception of Gastone Moschin, an excellent actor in many other films, here having a stupid, ridiculous role, Michele Lupo used 14th-rate actors. It's not a comedy, it's a poorly written drama around an inheritance. Another mistake, at the beginning of the film, the policeman played by Gastone Moschin, an Italian actor, says "Good Morning Padre" to the priest, instead of "Good Morning Father", the action is somewhere in England, with English characters (padre means priest in Italian, it also means father), but the director and almost all the other actors are Italian... The only one who has written another real, honest, sincere review is "wmschoell". Zero stars from me, exactly as it deserves.

Even if there is no sex. Isn't it? Well, that's pretty much what happens in the film. Until Eugenia, the character played by the unique beauty that was Laura Antonelli, meets Silvano, the character played by Michele Placido. What a beauty of a woman this Laura Antonelli is, I consider her the most beautiful woman in the world, more beautiful than all the beautiful actresses, like other Italians I have been in love with more or less, Virna Lisi, Monica Vitti, Sylva Koscina, Silvana Mangano, Anonella Lualdi, Rossana Podestà, Sophia Loren, Monica Bellucci, Claudia Cardinale, Gina Lollobrigida, Ornella Muti, Stefania Sandrelli. The film is worth seeing just for her. A little for Michele Placido and Jean Rochefort too. Alberto Lionello's acting is too exaggerated. The talented director Luigi Comencini also delighted me with other films such as: "The Scopone Game Original title: Lo scopone scientifico (1972) and "Misunderstood" Original title: Incompreso (Vita col figlio) (1966). The 10 stars are less for the film than for Laura Antonaz, known as Antonelli.