''What Scoundrels Men Are!'' () is a 1932 Italian "
white-telephones"
comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
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
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
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
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Gastone Medin. The film was
remade in 1953 by
Glauco Pellegrini.
Cast
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Lia Franca as Mariuccia
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Vittorio De Sica as Bruno
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Cesare Zoppetti as Tadino
* Aldo Moschino as Count Piazzi
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Carola Lotti as Gina
* Anna D'Adria as Letizia
* Gemma Schirato as Widow
* Maria Montesano as Candies woman
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Tino Erler as Mario Castelli
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María Denis
* Didaco Chellini as The engineer
External links
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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
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