The House of Shame (1938 film)
1938 film by Max Neufeld
- 14 December 1938 (1938-12-14)
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The House of Shame (Italian: La casa del peccato) is a 1938 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Assia Noris and Alida Valli.[1]
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. The film was the first time Nazzari and Valli co-starred together, as they would later go on to do a number of films.
Synopsis
A wife, concerned that her husband does not love her, pretends to have another suitor in order to make him jealous. Getting wise to this, he in turn pretends to have a new girlfriend.
Cast
- Amedeo Nazzari as Giulio
- Assia Noris as Renata
- Umberto Melnati as Massimo
- Alida Valli as La ragazza
- Giulio Stival as Un amico di Giulio
- Giuseppe Porelli as Il maggiordomo
- Aristide Baghetti
- Giuseppe Bordonaro
- Vasco Creti
- Corrado De Cenzo
- Jone Morino
- Tatiana Pavoni
- Teodoro Pescara Pateras
- Giuseppe Pierozzi
- Sandra Ravel
References
- ^ Nowell-Smith p.119
Bibliography
- Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.
External links
- The House of Shame at IMDb
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Films directed by Max Neufeld
- Doctor Ruhland (1920)
- Let the Little Ones Come to Me (1920)
- The Woman in White (1921)
- The Films of Princess Fantoche (1921)
- Light of His Life (1921)
- The Dead Wedding Guest (1922)
- The Iron King (1923)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (1923)
- A Waltz by Strauss (1925)
- The Arsonists of Europe (1926)
- The Family without Morals (1927)
- Archduke John (1929)
- The White Paradise (1929)
- A Night at the Grand Hotel (1931)
- The Opera Ball (1931)
- Sehnsucht 202 (1932)
- Overnight Sensation (1932)
- A Precocious Girl (1934)
- A Star Fell from Heaven (1934)
- The Song of the Sun (1934)
- Temptation (1934)
- Her Highness Dances the Waltz (1935)
- Antonia (1935, with Jean Boyer)
- The House of Shame (1938)
- Unjustified Absence (1939)
- A Thousand Lire a Month (1939)
- A Wife in Danger (1939)
- The Castle Ball (1939)
- Red Tavern (1940)
- The First Woman Who Passes (1940)
- The Tyrant of Padua (1946)
- Un uomo ritorna (also known as Revenge, 1946)
- Anni (1948)
- Abracadabra (1952)
- Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957)
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