Campane a martello (1949)
1h 49m
Running Time
September 16, 1949Release Date
Campane a martello (1949)
1h 49m
Running Time
September 16, 1949Release Date
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Plot.
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
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Cast & Crew.
Gina Lollobrigida
Agostina
Yvonne Sanson
Australia
Carlo Romano
Il maresciallo
Clelia Matania
Bianca
Carlo Giustini
Marco
Ernesto Almirante
Il Possidente
Luigi Zampa
Director
Piero Tellini
Writer
Agostino Salvietti
Il Sindaco
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Gino Saltamerenda
Fernando
Nino Rota
Composer
Salvatore Arcidiacono
Il Farmacista
Ada Colangeli
Francesca
Carlo Montuori
Cinematographer
Pasquale Misiano
Autista del camioncino
Media.
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Wiki.
Alarm Bells (Italian: Campane a martello) is a 1949 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Gina Lollobrigida, Yvonne Sanson and Eduardo De Filippo.Location shooting took place on Ischia in the Gulf of Naples. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Gherardi. A separate English-language version Children of Chance was produced. It was directed by Zampa but otherwise featured a different British cast of actors. It took around 113 million lira at the box office.