Marriage Italian Style

Here's a film that asks: can a certain kind of woman get a man to do the right thing? A long-term affair in Naples results in children and endless promises of marriage, so she feigns a mortal illness to force his hand. It's a crowd-pleaser, if a rather dated one.

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Vittorio De Sica directed Marriage Italian Style in 1964. See Vittorio De Sica's full filmography, where to start with Vittorio De Sica, or where to go after you've seen everything by Vittorio De Sica.

Marriage Italian Style was released in 1964 (IT original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.