Starring: Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, etc.
Director: Melville Shavelson
Consider a successful American lawyer who has lost his wayward brother in an automobile accident, a beautiful Italian nightclub singer who holds custody of the departed brother's only son, in a tourist setting. The result is a war of wits and mettle over custody of the little boy and in the process the adults fall in love and take over joint custody of the boy. This in effect is the story of this movie. What makes it worth watching for 120 odd minutes is the stellar performances by top stars Clark Gable (American lawyer Michael Hamilton) and Sophia Loren (Italian nightclub singer Lucia Curcio) which makes you laugh throughout the movie. Director Michael Shavelson has extracted great performances from both the stars and especially the young boy who plays Nandos.
The movie starts off with Michael arriving in Naples to take care of the estate of his brother who was killed in an automobile accident. The brother, who has borrowed $14,000 from Michael and squandered it away, so in effect there is not much money left. There is his young son Nandos, who at 8 doesn't go to school but smokes and drinks. Lucia, Nando's mother's unmarried sister has claimed him as her own and both are very attached to each other.
Michael is not happy with the way the boy is growing up and wants to give him a good education in an American school. Lucia is naturally not willing to give up custody and this leads to some courtship and finally to a court battle over custody. What happens at the end is quite predictable but how it happens is what you will have to discover by watching the movie.
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