Side Street Story

Side Street Story (Napoli milionaria)
Totò and Eduardo De Filippo
Directed by	Eduardo De Filippo
Written by	Eduardo De Filippo Arduino Maiuri Piero Tellini
Produced by	Eduardo De Filippo Dino De Laurentiis
Starring	Eduardo De Filippo Totò
Cinematography	Aldo Tonti
Edited by	Giuliana Attenni Douglas Robertson
Music by	Nino Rota
Production company	Lux Film
Release date	1950 (1950)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Side Street Story (Italian: Napoli milionaria [ˈnaːpoli miljoˈnaːrja], meaning "Millionaire Naples") is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Eduardo De Filippo. The film was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

In Naples in 1942 people are in crisis due to the Second World War. Gennaro has a café and hopes that the family will help him in the work so that it can settle down. His wife is engaged in the Black Market to keep going and one thing leads to another. His son Amedeo, however, imagines revolutions and the redemption of the poor people. Peppe is killed in a tragic accident while being arrested during street violence an event which does not happen in the play. The family Gennaro mysteriously enters into crisis and among various adventures and other sad situations Pasquale enters the scene, a family member believed to be dead. The member is Pasquale was not in the original stage comedy but was a part written deliberately for the actor Toto.

Cast

• Eduardo De Filippo – Gennaro Iovine
• Leda Gloria – Amalia, la moglie di Gennaro
• Delia Scala – Maria Rosaria Iovine, la figlia di Gennaro
• Gianni Musy – Amedeo Iovine figlio di Gennaro (as Gianni Glori)
• Totò – Pasquale Miele
• Titina De Filippo – Adelaide
• Carlo Ninchi – Il brigadiere di Ps
• Dante Maggio – Il rosticciere
• Laura Gore – La moglie del ragionier Spasiani
• Mario Soldati – Il ragioner Spasiani
• Aldo Giuffrè – Federico
• Carlo Mazzoni – Il sergente americano
• Michael Tor – L'ufficiale americano
• Aldo Tonti
• Pietro Carloni – Un soldato americano
• Mario Frera – Peppe "'o Cricco"
• Pietro Pennetti – Un soldato
• Giacomo Rondinella – Il cantante di concertino
• Rosita Pisano – Assunta
• Concetta Palumbo – Riruccia
• Mariano Englen
• Carlo Giuffrè – Ernesto
• Nino Vingelli – Giovanni
• Francesco Penza
• Antonio La Raina

External links

• Side Street Story at IMDb
• Side Street Story at Rotten Tomatoes