One Hundred Thousand Dollars

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One Hundred Thousand Dollars
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Directed by Mario Camerini
Written by
Produced byCarridi Oreste Barbieri
Starring
Cinematography Alberto Fusi
Edited byGiovanna Del Bosco
Music by Alessandro Cicognini
Production
company
Astra Film
Distributed by ENIC
Release date
  • 23 March 1940 (1940-03-23)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

One Hundred Thousand Dollars (Italian: Centomila dollari) is a 1940 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Assia Noris, Amedeo Nazzari and Lauro Gazzolo. [1]

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It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fulvio Jacchia. It was part of the traditional of White Telephone comedies, popular during the era.

Synopsis

An American millionaire staying at a Budapest hotel falls in love with the telephone operator working there. When she refuses his advances because she already has a fiancée, he offers her a hundred thousand dollars to have dinner with him. Although she refuses, when her family find out the amount they pressure her to accept his offer.

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References

  1. Gundle p.169

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