When Love Calls (1948)
Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Run Time - 106 min. |
Countries - Italy |
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Popular Italian singing star Gino Bechi tops the cast of When Love Calls. Bechi plays Claudio Tancredi, an effusive operatic baritone who can't keep his hands off the ladies. This gets him into plenty of hot water with his wife Anna (Silvana Pampanini), who could never be accused of being the patient or the demure type. The best scenes take place in a bandit camp where Tancredi briefly hides out; American viewers were quite astonished at the amount of feminine pulchritude on display in this extended sequence. The box-office appeal of When Love Calls assured the film an excellent response upon its first release.