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The Bachelor

Lo scapolo

Italy

1955

90 Min
Black and White
1.66:1
Italian
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DIR Antonio Pietrangeli

PROD Maurice Ergas

SCR Antonio Pietrangeli, Sandro Continenza, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola

DP Gianni Di Venanzo

CAST Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Nino Manfredi, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani

ED Eraldo Da Roma

MUSIC Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Venice (Italian Comedy)

Synopsis

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time? —IMDb

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Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli (born January 19, 1919 in Rome, Gaeta, died July 12, 1968) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Pietrangeli was a major practitioner of the Commedia all’italiana genre.

He started writing film reviews for famous Italian cinema magazines such as Bianco e nero and Cinema. As a screenwriter, Pietrangeli’s work included Ossessione directed by Visconti, Fabiola by Blasetti, Europa ’51 by Rossellini, and La lupa by Lattuada.

His directing debut was Il sole negli occhi (1953). Career highlights include Io la conoscevo bene (1965) and Adua e le compagne (1960).

He died in a car accident in 1969 while working on Come, quando, perché, which was completed by Valerio Zurlini. —Wikipedia 

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