It Started in Naples

When Lucia is on the bed waiting for Michael, she wears a blue dress and dark nylon stockings.

When she is outside with her nephew Nando, she is still in her blue dress, but bare legged, and when she enters the house and lies on the bed, she is wearing the dress and stockings again.

When Michael gives money to Lucia, he puts his wallet away twice.

Mike and Lucia order up stiff drinks for each other at the bar.

Mike orders a bourbon drink for Lucia and she orders a Campari based drink for Mike.

However when each of them grabs the bottle of liquor to top off the others drink the bottles are switched.

Mike's gets topped off with Burbon and Lucia's with Campari.

When Nando and Mike are watching the parade together, there are different people around them depending upon whether it is a close or long shot.

When Mike rather roughly pulls Lucia off her bed (c.

33 minutes) she falls onto a rug which has rather obvious padding underneath it to soften her fall.

In the brief subsequent shots the padding is missing and the rug now covers only the floor.

This was Clark Gable's second last film, and one feels tempted to say that he was never better. He goes to Italy to settle some legal matters concerning his brother in Naples and is immediately taken well care of by Vittorio de Sica, a lawyer, who instantly shocks him by telling the truth: The brother has died in an accident together with his wife and left an eight year old son in the care of the wife's sister on Capri.

This will be hard for many film lovers to believe, but I never liked Clark Gable. I've seen some of his classics like "Gone With the Wind" and "It Happened One Night", and I was always turned off by the narcissistic, arrogant jerk he always seemed to play.

Don't overthink this movie; just watch it and enjoy it. We're talking Doris Day era here, but it's not that sugary sweet; Gable's cynical commentary gives it a bit of an edge.

Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable) returns to Naples to settle his lazy dead no-good brother's affairs. When he was last there, he was a soldier in the army.

A lightweight romantic comedy featuring a past-his-prime Clark Gable opposite 25-year-old Sophia Loren. Given the disparity in their ages, it's just as well that the romance side of things is saved for the last third of the movie, while the rest is enhanced by the presence of cute kid Marietto, who has a special way of mangling the English language.

Clark Gable goes to Naples for his late brother's estate and will etc, but there he finds Sophia Loren as his (ex) sister-in-law. Period.

But I'd have left young Nando to it. He was happy and contented, not harming anyone- what else matters?

I've only seen the trailer of Sophia singing and dancing in this film. But whilst browsing films on Netflix I came across the movie.

Marietto, also known as Carlo Angeletti, is the little star in this movie who steals the limelight from Clark Gable and Sophia Loren. He plays the super cute little street urchin who may or may not be the real nephew of rich American lawyer from Philadelphia Clark Gable.