''What Scoundrels Men Are!'' () is a 1932 Italian " white-telephones"

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directed by Mario Camerini. The film was a great success, De Sica and Lia Franca became stars and the song '' Parlami d'amore Mariù'' was a hit. Rare in Italian film history, it was filmed on real

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locations, nowadays it is a sort of documentary on what Milan was like in the 1930s. It was produced by Cines, with film sets designed by the

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Gastone Medin. The film was remade in 1953 by Glauco Pellegrini.

Cast

* Lia Franca as Mariuccia * Vittorio De Sica as Bruno * Cesare Zoppetti as Tadino * Aldo Moschino as Count Piazzi * Carola Lotti as Gina * Anna D'Adria as Letizia * Gemma Schirato as Widow * Maria Montesano as Candies woman * Tino Erler as Mario Castelli * María Denis * Didaco Chellini as The engineer

External links

* 1930s Italian-language films 1932 films 1932 comedy films Italian black-and-white films Films set in Italy Films set in Milan Films directed by Mario Camerini Italian comedy films 1930s Italian films Films scored by Cesare Andrea Bixio Italian-language comedy films {{1930s-Italy-comedy-film-stub