Strange Cargo

 

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren star in this Italian comedy that centers around three stories. My favorite one would have to be the one where Sophia Loren discovers that she can legally sell cigarettes on the street if she is always expecting. However, her husband is unable to impregnate their eighth child. Will she have to face jail time? In the first story, Sophia Loren is really plained up. But this is one of the most attractive women to ever grace cinema. The movie was entertaining.

Le Notti Bianche

 

This was a pretty good Visconti movie starring Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Schell. I watched Gervaise lately. This was based on a Dostoyevsky story. Schell plays a woman who can't get over her lover who she hasn't seen in a year. Meanwhile Marcello and her fall in love. However, can she really leave the past behind her.  I wish that Maria Schell's movies were more available. Perhaps these were the best movies of her career?