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il vedovo, armando trovajoli, cam
€ 15.00

 
il Vedovo
(1959)


composer: armando trovajoli

label: CAM original soundtracks

AKA: The Widower

total duration: 00.39.46

soundtrack style: comedy



   


tracks

01. Widowed
02. Strolling in the Park
03. Pinaz Boat
04. G.I. Boogi
05. Oscar Is the Back
06. Jumping
07. Chet Is the Back
08. Nocturne
09. Study in 'G' Minor
10. Oscar Is the Back (II Version)
11. Chet Is the Back (II Version)
12. G.I. Boogi (II Version)
13. Widowed (II Version)

 
 
description

An unexpectedly upbeat and jazzy score by legendary composer and jazzman Armando Trovajoli, for a typical 1960s Italian-style comedy.
A real treat, both for film music aficionados and jazz fans.

 
story

Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) tethers perennially on the brink of catastrophe.
Alberto is married to a rich and successful business woman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
Alberto tries to "keep up" with his wife and her rich and successful friends but he only manages to ridicule himself.
Amused by his antics Elvira publicly treats her husband as a silly clown, confident that he'll never leave her in the hope of profiting from her fortune.
One day a train where Elvira was supposed to be traveling (to pay visit to her old mother) suffers a horrible accident falling off a bridge and no survivors are reported.
Alberto is overjoyed and in a veritable ecstatic rush plans to liquidate most of Elvira's assets, brings his mistress in her country villa and starts dreaming of a bright future only to be frustrated when Elvira appears alive and well:
a last-minute phone call from his own lackey (Marquis Stucchi) prevented her from boarding the doomed train.
Frustration and anger throw Alberto in a nervous breakdown from which he emerges with a diabolic plan:
sabotage the elevator in the attic where he lives with Elvira to have her killed and inherit her fortune for good.
The German engineer working in his factory agrees and with the help of unlikely accomplices like Marquis Stucchi and his own uncle (acting as Alberto's chauffer) the murderous plan is set in motion...

Cast:
Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Leonora Ruffo

Director:
Dino Risi

 

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