Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas
By June 21, 2011
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Film Info
- Italy
- 1949
- 94 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- Italian
After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation. There’s a touch of noir in Chains, in which the saintly yet earthy Yvonne Sanson, as the devoted wife of a mechanic (Amedeo Nazzari), finds herself unwillingly drawn back to an ex-love who has turned to crime.
Cast
| Gugliemo | Amedeo Nazzari |
| Rosa | Yvonne Sanson |
| Emilio | Aldo Nicodemi |
| Gugliemo’s mother | Teresa Franchini |
| Tonino | Gianfranco Magalotti |
| Angela | Rosalia Rendazzo |
| Singer | Roberto Murolo |
| Defense lawyer | Aldo Silvani |
Credits
| Director | Raffaello Matarazzo |
| Producer | Goffredo Lombardo |
| Screenplay | Aldo De Benedetti, Nicola Manzari and Libero Bovio |
| Story | Libero Bovio and Gaspare Di Majo |
| Cinematography | Mario Montuori |
| Art direction | Ottavio Scotti and Gino Brosio |
| Editing | Mario Serandrei |
| Music | Gino Campase |
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