Giuseppe Amato

On a train to Rome, the American singer Marc Revere meets the Italian Raffaela. He notices that she intends to work and live at her uncle's. When he gives her a ride, it turns out that said uncle has moved to South America. So Revere offers her to live with him at his cousin's, an impecunious pianist. (imdb)

lga Villi essays the title role in the Italian Yvonne la Nuit. The film certainly spares its heroine nothing: her lover killed in WW I, her child kidnapped by her lover's aristocratic father, Yvonne pours out her heart in song at every opportunity. Only in her dotage is Yvonne permitted a measure of happiness with a buffoonish companion who has loved her from afar... ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Tells of two petty thieves one of whom is arrested. When he is released he and his friend start an honest life but he soon has an accident. While unconscious he has a vision of San Gennaro, to whom he promises to give up his crimes and vices in return for his life. (bfi)

Adaptation of a Paola Riccora theatre piece for the screen, which features the three De Filippo siblings and a young Alda Vialli. Giovannino loses his job and is taken in by the family of his wealthy nephew. Whilst reduced to doing menial takes for the family, he is increasingly blamed for everything untoward. Ultimately, after one family development another family member is finally obliged to come forward with the truth.

After WW2, a group of Italian soldiers languishing in a California POW camp is nostalgically reminiscing about the happy pre-war years while awaiting repatriation.