Mario Mazza

An entertainer at the end of his career decides to help a young woman who wishes to become a successful artiste. A musical is staged in which the old entertainer plays the part of Saladino and the young singer's career is launched. (bfi)

Another of Cottafavi's woman-in-search-of emancipation pictures, vaguely Ophulsian or Antonioniesque in tone. They all seem to follow a similar pattern: a woman explores romantic and sexual possibilities, then opts for solitude in the last act. (European Film Review comments)

A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.