Lucky Night (1941 film)

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Lucky Night
Notte di fortuna (1941) Leda Gloria e Peppino De Filippo.jpg
Leda Gloria and Peppino De Filippo
Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
Written by Riccardo Freda
Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara
Raffaello Matarazzo
Starring Peppino De Filippo
Leda Gloria
Vera Bergman
Cinematography Ugo Lombardi
Václav Vích
Edited byAngelo L. Comitti
Music by Dan Caslar
Production
company
Atesia Film
Distributed by ICI
Release date
  • 2 February 1941 (1941-02-02)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Lucky Night (Italian: Notte di fortuna) is a 1941 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Peppino De Filippo, Leda Gloria and Vera Bergman. It was the first film De Filippo starred in without his more famous brother Eduardo De Filippo. [1]

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It was shot at the Titanus Studios in Rome with sets designed by the art director Piero Rosi.

Synopsis

A small town pharmacist's clerk goes to a San Remo casino and wins a major fortune in a single night of gambling. However, urged on by a mysterious woman, he subsequently loses it all.

Cast

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References

  1. Curti p.26

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