''Avanti!'' is a 1972 American/Italian
international co-production
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comedy film
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produced and directed by
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (; ; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hol ...
, and starring
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered equally proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, Lemmon was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in dramedy pictures, leadin ...
and
Juliet Mills
Juliet Maryon Mills (born 21 November 1941) is an English-American actress. She is the daughter of actor Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell and the eldest of three siblings; her younger siblings are actress Hayley Mills and director Jonathan ...
. The screenplay by Wilder and
I. A. L. Diamond
I. A. L. Diamond (born Ițec (Itzek) Domnici; June 27, 1920 – April 21, 1988) was a Moldovan–American screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Billy Wilder.
Life and career
Diamond was born in Ungheni, Iași County, Bessarabia, R ...
is based on
Samuel A. Taylor
Samuel A. Taylor (June 13, 1912 – May 26, 2000) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Biography
Born Samuel Albert Tanenbaum, in a Jewish family, in Chicago, Illinois, Taylor made his Broadway debut as author of the play ''The Hap ...
's play, which had a short run for the 1968
Broadway
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
season.
The film follows a businessman attempting to deliver the body of his father from
Italy
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. It premiered on December 17, 1972. Lemmon won the
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The film was nominated for five
Golden Globe Awards
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, including
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy,
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Film awards
* AACTA Award for Best Direction
* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
,
Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and
Best Screenplay.
Plot
For the last decade, Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster Sr. has annually spent a month at the Grand Hotel Excelsior on the resort island of
Ischia
Ischia ( , , ) is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about from Naples. It is the largest of the Phlegrean Islands. Roughly trapezoidal in shape, it measures approximately east to west ...
on the
Bay of Naples
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, allegedly to soak in the therapeutic
mud bath
A mud bath is a bath of mud, commonly found in areas where hot spring water can combine with volcanic ash. Mud baths have a long history that dates back thousands of years. Mud baths are conceived as public bathing spaces created in open areas ...
s. During his last visit he died in an
automobile accident, and his straitlaced son Wendell Armbruster Jr. travels to Ischia to claim the body. He meets Pamela Piggott, a London traveler, who has come to claim the body of her mother. Wendell discovers his father had an affair with Pamela's mother for every one of those ten years, despite his having had a wife in
Baltimore
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. Pamela knows of their parents' clandestine annual meeting. Hotel manager Carlo Carlucci plans a funeral and the delivery of Wendell Senior's remains in three days time so Wendell Junior can take his father's body back to the family home for a funeral to be viewed on television by all the workers in his father's factories. They are delayed at every turn due to the twin Italian traditions of bureaucracy and short working hours.
Pamela asks Wendell to bury their parents together on their beloved Ischia. When the bodies vanish from the morgue, Wendell suspects Pamela. However, the bodies were stolen by the brothers of the Trotta family, whose
vineyard
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was damaged in the accident. Wendell discovers another Italian tradition, extortion. The Trottas spirited the remains away from the
morgue
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, holding them for a two million
lire ransom. At the same time, hotel
valet
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Bruno wants to return to America from which he had been deported since he is Italian. Bruno has compromising photos of Wendell's father and Pamela's mother and plans to use blackmail to make his dreams come true. As Wendell and Pamela swim naked, Bruno take a
snapshot
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of them and tries to force Wendell to use his influence to get him an American visa. However, the maid, Anna - whom Bruno has impregnated and seeks to flee Italy to avoid marrying her - kills Bruno in Pamela's room while Pamela is away. Carlucci moves Pamela's property to Wendell's room to prevent her being involved in the incident, but Pamela believes that Wendell has surprised her and ordered the move so the pair can stay together as lovers. Meanwhile, back in the States, Wendell's wife uses her connections to send
State Department
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Agent J.J. Blodgett from Paris to quickly expedite the matter. Wendell and Pamela at last fall in love and have their parents interred together in the Carlucci family cemetery, and place Bruno's remains in a coffin marked as Wendell Senior, granting Bruno's wish to return to the United States.
After enjoying himself in the mud baths, Blodgett appoints Wendell Senior to an embassy post, in the interest of
Equal Opportunity Employment
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by not discriminating regardless of health. Blodgett then has Wendell Senior's coffin, which is carrying Bruno's remains, sent to America in a
diplomatic pouch. Carlucci promises Pamela and Wendell to have a room ready for a month in a year's time just like he did for their parents. Wendell and Blodgett leave Ischia and head to the airport in Rome on a
U.S. Navy
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helicopter
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.
Cast
Production
Development
Although Taylor's play had closed on
Broadway
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
in early 1968 after 21 performances, (it was profiled in the
William Goldman
William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He won Academy Awards for his screenplays '' ...
book ''
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway'')
talent agent
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Charles Feldman
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, who previously had interested Wilder in filming ''
The Seven Year Itch
''The Seven Year Itch'' is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with George Axelrod from the 1952 three-act play. The film stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, who reprised his stage role. ...
,'' had purchased the screen rights and offered the property to the director. Wilder began working on ''
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, an ...
,'' and it was not until that film was completed that he focused on ''Avanti!'' Diamond was absent, and Wilder collaborated first with
Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein (August 22, 1909December 30, 2000) was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, best remembered for his screenplay, written with his twin brother, Philip, and Howard E. Koch, of the film ''Casablanca'' (1942), for whic ...
and
Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna directed three films during a forty-year ca ...
but he was unhappy with them. Diamond became free, and with the ultimately uncredited assistance of
Luciano Vincenzoni
Luciano Vincenzoni (; 7 March 1926 – 22 September 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for some 65 films between 1954 and 2000.
Biography
Vincenzoni was born in Treviso, Veneto. He is probably best know ...
, he and Wilder adapted the play. Wilder was determined to create "a bittersweet love story, a little like '
Brief Encounter
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Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey, ...
,' which I always admired," he later recalled.
[Chandler, Charlotte, ''Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography''. New York: Simon & Schuster 2002. , pp. 274-277] After viewing a number of Italian films, Wilder selected cinematographer
Luigi Kuveiller
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Born in Rome, the son of a craftsman - interior decorator, Kuveiller soon abandoned his studies and began workin ...
based on his work on
Elio Petri
Eraclio Petri (29 January 1929 – 10 November 1982), commonly known as Elio Petri, was an Italian film director, screenwriter, theatre director, and critic associated with the political cinema in the 1960s and '70s. His film ''Investigat ...
's 1969 film ''
A Quiet Place in the Country.''
Casting
Early in the writing period, Wilder showed
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Considered equally proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, Lemmon was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in dramedy pictures, leadin ...
some of the completed script and he agreed to play Wendell Armbruster Jr. "Knowing pretty early on Jack was going to be in our film made it more comfortable writing his dialogue," said Diamond, who preferred to tailor a screenplay to a specific actor.
Wilder was a fan of Mills from the television
sitcom
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''
Nanny and the Professor
''Nanny and the Professor'' is an early 1970s American sitcom created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century-Fox Television that aired on ABC from January 21, 1970 until
December 27, 1971. During pre-production, the proposed t ...
.'' He disliked the series but enjoyed watching the show to see her, as he considered her a good actress with a lot of appeal. He contacted her and personally offered her the role of Pamela Piggott. "I loved Billy Wilder just calling me and asking me to be in his film," the actress recalled, "no lawyer or agent, his voice, not asking for an audition or a screen test."
Wilder told her the role required her to gain 25 pounds, and Mills agreed. She also agreed to a nude scene, although Diamond was opposed to including one in the film. "I think nudity hurts laughs," he stated. "I mean, if you're watching somebody's boobs, you're not listening to the dialogue."
Filming
The film is set on the island of Ischia, where some of the exterior scenes were shot, including a brief scene outside the morgue (the interior of which, as with all the interior sets, was designed by Italian production designer
Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Ferdinando Scarfiotti (6 March 1941 – 30 April 1994) was an Italian art director and production designer.
After graduating in architecture at the University of Rome, he was approached by Luchino Visconti, who asked him to design his sta ...
); at and around the port of Ischia, where Lemmon and Mills visit the island; and on a small rock jutting out of the water just off the shore of Ischia, where the
nudity scenes were shot. However, most of the exteriors were filmed in
Sorrento
Sorrento (, ; nap, Surriento ; la, Surrentum) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy. A popular tourist destination, Sorrento is located on the Sorrentine Peninsula at the south-eastern terminus of the Circumvesuviana ra ...
, including the exterior of Lemmon's hotel; on
Capri, notably the hilltop heliport overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea; and along the
Amalfi Coast
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Celebrated worldw ...
. Interiors were filmed on Scarfiotti's sets (including the interior lobby and hotel rooms) at
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Historically, the site was used as a film studio from the 1930s t ...
in
Rome
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following location shooting during the summer of 1972. Principal photography was completed on schedule and $100,000 under budget.
Wilder reported that he was disappointed with the film. "Maybe we went overboard with some of the comic relief, because 'Avanti!' is ''not'' a comedy," he stated. "If this film had worked the way we wanted it to, it would have had more of the quality of '
The Apartment
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.' I always feel sorry for the disappointment of the actors, and all those dear technical people who do so much, when the picture doesn't make it the way they hoped. I went much farther with forbidden themes than I had with '
Kiss Me, Stupid
''Kiss Me, Stupid'' is a 1964 American sex comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder and starring Dean Martin, Kim Novak, and Ray Walston.
The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the play ''L'ora della fantasia'' (''Th ...
,' but nobody cared. Audiences thought it was too long and too bland. I guess they would have liked it better if it turned out the father was having the affair with one of the bellboys at the hotel."
Music
The film's musical score was composed and arranged by
Carlo Rustichelli
Carlo Rustichelli (24 December 1916 – 13 November 2004) was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films, and music f ...
, and conducted by
Gianfranco Plenizio. The score incorporates and adapted several classic Italian songs, including “Palcoscenico” (
Sergio Bruni
Sergio Bruni (stage name of Guglielmo Chianese, 15 September 1921 – 22 June 2003) was a popular Italian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was often called "The Voice of Naples".
He was born in the commune of Villaricca, near Naples, Italy ...
, composers E. Bonagura, Chianese), “
Senza Fine” (
Ornella Vanoni
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, composer
G. Paoli), “Un’ora sola ti vorrei” (Nuccia Natali, composers P. Marchetti and U. Bertini) and "La Luna" (
Milva
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, composers
Detto Mariano, and
Don Backy
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Select ...
)
Critical reception
A.H. Weiler of ''
The New York Times
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'' thought the film was "intermittently funny, charming, cute and, unfortunately, over-long." He continued, "Wilder, Lemmon and I.A.L. Diamond . . . fitfully charm us but they haven't moved forward at any great comic clip. They have warped some parts of the playwright's plot to give us a fairly reasonable flow of giggles and an occasional guffaw." He cited "a fine job turned in by Clive Revill."
Roger Ebert
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of the ''
Chicago Sun-Times
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'' called the film "a pleasant, civilized comedy" and added, "''Avanti!'' isn't a laugh-a-minute kind of a movie, and it's too long by maybe half an hour. It also suffers from the problem that the audience has everything figured out several minutes before Jack Lemmon does. Still, the movie has a certain charm, some of which seeps in along with the locations, and there is in most of the many Wilder/Lemmon collaborations a cheerful insouciance, as if life is best approached with a cheerful, if puzzled, grin."
Jay Cocks
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'' observed, "The topical dialogue by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond —
Kissinger
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jokes,
Billy Graham
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jokes, etc. — gives this passingly pleasant movie the sound of a
Bob Hope
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TV special. But Miss Mills is fresh and winning, and there is a deft performance by Clive Revill."
The British television network
Channel 4
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has called the film "a rare instance of the travel comedy - never an easy thing to pull off - succeeding without recourse to old racial stereotypes . . . As a love story, it's full of Wilder's biting satire . . . Taken at face value, it's simply a travel comedy about funny foreigners and love in the Mediterranean. Yet what stands out is how uncomfortable Wilder seems to be with making a sex comedy in the 1970s. Forced to take on board the aftershocks of the summer of love but saddled with an old man's attitude and an old man's cast, Wilder seems perilously out of his depth. As Lemmon and Mills strip off to reveal pale white skin and flabby fat, you can't help feeling that the resolutely misanthropic director is somewhat appalled by the realities of his characters' bedroom antics."
Channel 4 review
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Awards and honors
Lemmon won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and nominations went to Billy Wilder for Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to:
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* AACTA Award for Best Direction
* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
, Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond for Best Screenplay, Juliet Mills for Best Actress
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, Clive Revill for Best Supporting Actor, and the film itself for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy). However, there were no Academy Award
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nominations. Wilder and Diamond were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium but lost to Jay Presson Allen
Jay Presson Allen (March 3, 1922 – May 1, 2006) was an American screenwriter, playwright, stage director, television producer, and novelist. Known for her withering wit and sometimes-off-color wisecracks, she was one of the few women making a ...
for ''Cabaret
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''.
Golden Globe Awards
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* Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Jack Lemmon (won)
* Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical: Juliet Mills (nominated)
* Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture: Clive Revill (nominated)
* Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominated)
* Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to:
Film awards
* AACTA Award for Best Direction
* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
: Billy Wilder (nominated)
* Best Screenplay: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond (nominated)
Writers Guild of America Awards
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Eligibility
T ...
* Best Adapted Screenplay: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond (nominated)
Home media
MGM Home Entertainment
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History ...
released the Region 1 DVD on July 15, 2003. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
See also
* List of American films of 1972
This is a list of American films released in 1972.
''Cabaret'' won 8 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Actress. ''The Godfather'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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* List of Italian films of 1972
A list of films produced in Italy in 1972 (see 1972 in film):
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