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The Bachelor
Why this pick
Alberto Sordi again anchors a brisk, rueful comedy of social façades and romantic misadventure, with the same satirical feel for postwar Italian respectability.
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MOVIE1952 1h 25m ITA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), the Rudolph Valentino-like hero of a soap opera photo comics and sneaks off to find him, leaving her conventional, petit bourgeois husband in hysterics as he tries to hide his wife's disappearance from his strait-laced relatives who are waiting to go with them to visit the Pope. The plotline was appropriated by Woody Allen in his film ''To Rome with Love (film)''.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Alberto Sordi
Fernando Rivoli - Lo sceicco bianco
Brunella Bovo
Wanda Giardino Cavalli
Leopoldo Trieste
Ivan Cavalli
Giulietta Masina
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