The Secret of Santa Vittoria [VHS]

The Secret of Santa Vittoria [VHS]
by Stanley Kramer

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Actor: Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, Hardy Kr?ger, Sergio Franchi, Virna Lisi
Director: Stanley Kramer
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 139 minutes
Release Date: 1996-03-26
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of The Secret of Santa Vittoria [VHS]

Movie Review: Bom-bo-li-ni!
Summary: 5 Stars

I recently received this as a gift, and it is a very good movie. The humor is very funny, and that doesn't detract from the serious side of the story. The acting is great! You can sympathize with many of the characters. If you like the history of WWII, Italian culture, and comedy then you will like this movie.

Movie Review: The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Summary: 5 Stars

Anthony Quinn at his best. Spectaculary talented and well selected cast and visually stunning photgraphy. At times hilarious and at other times poignient.

Highly highly reccoment

Movie Review: Peter B
Summary: 5 Stars

Product was delivered in the exact shape that the seller had described - very satisfied

Movie Review: Sleeper!
Summary: 5 Stars

This was the best Anthony Quinn movie we've ever seen. He should have won an Oscar for this one, too! Cute story, lots of action, great acting.

Movie Review: Secret of Santa Vittoria
Summary: 5 Stars

This film adheres very closely to the book by the same name, but dwells only briefly on the book's most unpleasant part. It is set in World War II German-occupied Italy, during the turbulent time following Mussolini's overthrow and Italy's withdrawl from the Axis alliance.

Word reaches the hillside town of Santa Vittoria that its fabulous wine reserve is to be seized by the retreating German army. The newly installed mayor, viewed as a buffoon by his wife and the saner citizens of the town, is faced with saving the wine from the Germans. He proves that not all buffoons are the same; some have much more common sense than they appear to possess. The film is a brief clash of two cultures where the apparent underdog runs circles around its supposed superior.

This film has humor, tension, love, and a dash of evil as it occurs within the backdrop of war. Anthony Quinn, who plays the mayor Bombolini, does a superb job, even if you are not an Anthony Quinn fan. The film should leave you smiling at the end.
It is well worth including in your video library.

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Summary of The Secret of Santa Vittoria [VHS]

The bestseller from The Great Impostor's Robert Crichton inspired this leisurely serio-comedy, which takes up where Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist left off--with the death of Benito Mussolini. The dictator's departure should come as good news for the hilltop town of Santa Vittoria, but new problems lay ahead (Federico Fellini favorite Giuseppe Rotunno shot the sun-drenched movie in Italy). Feeling betrayed by Il Duce, wine merchant Italo Bombolini (La Strada's Anthony Quinn) drinks his disappointment away to the consternation of his rolling pin-wielding wife, Rosa (The Rose Tattoo's Anna Magnani). Nonetheless, the townspeople like the "drunken, stupid clown," as Rosa calls him, enough that they appoint Bombolini mayor. To prepare him for duty, the college-educated Fabio (Swept Away's Giancarlo Giannini) introduces the new civic leader to Machiavelli, who wrote, "Things are never what they seem." When Fabio brings news that the Nazis plan to raid their wine reserves, Bombolini and Tufa (Sergio Franchi), a former soldier, heed those words and arrange to hide one million bottles in a Roman cave. Capt. Von Prum (Hardy Kr?ger) suspects subterfuge, and orders a search of every nook and cranny, while attempting to woo war widow Contessa Caterina (Queen Margot's Virna Lisi). At 139 minutes, Judgment at Nuremberg producer/director Stanley Kramer's Golden Globe-winning picture seems longer than necessary, but Quinn, Magnani, and Kr?ger provide just enough nuance to prevent their characters from slipping into caricature, and the film's celebration of solidarity lends it an enduring appeal. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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