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Guaglio (1948)
Directed by Luigi Comencini
Drama, Comedy · 1h 20m
On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...
Cast
Adolfo Celi
Tina Pica
Crew
- Director
- Luigi Comencini
- Screenplay
- Luigi Comencini, Armando Curcio, Aldo Buzzi, Suso Cecchi d'Amico
- Director of Photography
- Aldo Tonti
- Original Music Composer
- Nino Rota
- Editor
- Adriana Novelli
- Producer
- Carlo Ponti, Gigi Martello
Details
- Original title
- Proibito rubare
- Release date
- 1948-09-10
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Lux Film