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This was the first Clark Gable movie I ever remember seeing and I saw it in the old Marine Theatre in Brooklyn. Turned out also to be the last one Clark Gable got to see released as The Misfits was released after Gable's demise.

He's an honest to God Philadelphia lawyer who had a brother who deserted his wife and took off for Italy where he lived with another woman. The brother has died and Gable has gone to Italy to settle the estate.

The estate's one very tangible asset was the brother's son played very winningly by Marietto. Mom is deceased also and the boy is living with her sister and who wouldn't want an aunt who looked like Sophia Loren. It's a custody battle and the question the movie asks is how will the issue be settled, in or out of court?

Gable's certainly a mature leading man playing about 15 to 20 years younger than he is, but he carries it off well. And Sophia Loren is wonderful to see.

But the real star of this film is the Isle of Capri, one of the most beautiful spots on this old planet. Capri was getting a lot of publicity from Hollywood. Only a year before Mario Lanza's last film, For the First Time, also was shot a great deal in Capri. After these two films the tourist business must have boomed.

Sophia Loren has a few nice numbers to sing and one of them was the song Americano. It had a revival a few years ago in Matt Damon's The Talented Mr. Ripley. But Sophia's version is soooooooooo much better.

What a wonderful movie starring two of filmdoms' greatest stars-Clark Gable and the beautiful Sophia Loren. Set in Naples and the island of Capri this is one attractive movie.Great story line and excellent music and a wonderful performance by the master himself Vittorio De Sica. Add to the cast a young Italian actor by the name of Marietto playing a wise-cracking street kid from Naples and you have the perfect afternoon treat. Though this was Gables' second last movie before the ill fated Misfits (a movie I would rather forget)he looks in excellent shape and still has that twinkle in his eye that made him a star for over 25 years. This movie is just magic. Enough said.

Philadelphia lawyer Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable) arrives in Naples to settle the estate of his philandering brother...

He learns that his brother had taken a common-law wife who died with him in an automobile accident, leaving a ten-year-old lovechild named Nando...

Nando (Marietto) is looked after by his attractive aunt Lucia (Sophia Loren), a dazzling night-club dancer on Capri, who dreams of someday becoming a movie star...

Almost immediately, Mike and Lucia clash over the boy's upbringing...

Lucia wants to keep the lad and let him live as he chooses... The street urchin stays up half the night in the club, smokes cigarettes and indulges in trivial theft... Mike is aghast, and insists he be giving a proper formal and social education...

The matter is put to the court, but during the struggle for Marietto's affections, the couple fall in love and fight a lot when Hamilton makes it clear that marriage is out...

Photographed in Capri, the Island of Dreams, the pearl of the Mediterranean sea, the film is a nice romantic comedy in which a sexy Queen captures the 'King of Hollywood.'

Gable delivers one of the most memorable lines of the movie when he asks, at night, a waiter: 'How are people supposed to sleep on this island?'

I've just seen this on a beautiful DVD and I want to echo the positive comments. While not the funniest movie ever made it is amusing and a good family-type picture---assuming that families watch this type of picture these days.

What makes it happen for me is seeing Clark Gable and Sophia Loren together on screen with a beautiful background full of Capri Italy, 1960. The story is pretty basic but {like most good movies}provides a framework, plot situations and dialog- a lot of it in Italian, but still understandable- to keep the action moving and show off the Star Power on screen.There is great chemistry between Loren and Gable as well as co-star Vittorio De Sica and the young kid who plays the boy Nando - a star turn at age 10. Charming,amusing with eye-filling scenery and three legendary cinema personalities. Diverting and entertaining.

Bright , slight comedy of two stardom heavywights : Gable and Loren . Charming and cheerful movie set in Italy , days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer called Mike Hamilton (Clark Gable) travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his brother's girlfriend , a cabaret singer (Sophia Loren) who's really volluble with Italian guile and grabbiness. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. Both of whom squabble over the future of the little boy fast turning into a delinquent amid the dolce vita temptations of a travelogue Italy . Hamilton gets a little unexpected help from the Italian lawyer Mario Vitale (Vittorio de Sicca) . You'll Never See a Movie With More Carefee Fun and Happy Living!. You'll Want to Be There When the Fun Starts!

One-joke romantic comedy in which Gable stiff with hygiene and honesty and gorgeous Loren fall in love , but due to the thorny problem of the adoption a kid things go wrong ; along the way he grows more and more in love for her . Clark Gable is very agreeable as Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged brother .This was the last movie Clark Gable made that was released during his lifetime , Gable's next to last film "The Misfits" (1961) before his death , he had already had two strokesb, but continued to smoke 60 cigarettes a day. And Sophia Loren is magnificent as brother's widow and sexy nightclub dancer and the film is kept afloat chiefly by Loren's engaging ebullience . And special mention for Vittorio De Sica who gives a stunningly likable acting , he would direct and co write the screenplay for the film (La Ciociara) or "Two Women" which won Sophia Loren an Academy Award for Best Actress . A similar formula was used by director Melville Shavelson himself in "Houseboat" or Cintia (1958) this time with Gary Grant and Sophia Loren. Originally intented as a vehicle for Gracie Fields who was a well-known real-life Capri resident , when financing could not be raised, the storyline was sold to Paramount, and then elaborately re-written so that the Fields character became an American man, Hamilton/Gable.

This agreeable movie was wonderfully photographed in attractive Italian outdoors. In fact , there are lots of Naples and Capri sightseeing , spectacularly shot by great Hollywood cameraman Robert Surtees . Accompanied by an evocative and lively musical score by Alessandro Cicognini and Carlo Savina , and including catching song sung by Sophia Loren herself . The picture was professionally written and directed by Melville Shavelson but it results to be a minor vehicle for the great Clark Gable. Shavelson's movies have a special penchant for recapturing a particular atmosphere , many of his films are about real people but they remain muted in impact . A notorious screenwriter , Bob Hope -whom Shavelson had originally wanted for the lead- and Danny Kaye features Shavelson's pictures when he became filmmaker and his films with them are the most successful such as ¨The seven tittle Foys¨ , "Beau James¨, ¨On the Double¨ and ¨Five pennies¨ . Shavelson's later pictures were made for TV and mostly biographies as ¨The great Houdini¨ , ¨Ike¨, ¨Ike : the war years¨, and ¨The legend of Valentino¨ which remains the best work on the subject to date . Two of the best films turned out to be ¨Cast a giant shadow¨ , an epic movie with all-star-cast dealing with the birth of Israel and ¨Yours , mine and ours¨ his biggest hit . Rating : 7/10. The flick will appeal to Clark Gable and Sofia Loren fans.