Decameron Nights (1953)
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Director Hugo Fregonese and writer George Oppenheimer do the unthinkable: they manage to transform Giovanni Boccaccio's bawdy -- and downright raunchy -- medieval tales of martial discontent and infidelity into harmless white-bread treacle. Louis Jourdan plays Boccaccio in a framing story set in… More Director Hugo Fregonese and writer George Oppenheimer do the unthinkable: they manage to transform Giovanni Boccaccio's bawdy -- and downright raunchy -- medieval tales of martial discontent and infidelity into harmless white-bread treacle. Louis Jourdan plays Boccaccio in a framing story set in a villa in the Florentine hills. With a widowed woman and her sex-starved female wards hungrily hunched over listening to his every word, Boccaccio spins three tales of illicit romance involving a trio of medieval husbands and wives. All three tales feature Jourdan as the romantic male lead and Joan Fontaine -- spruced up in a collection of bright costumes -- as the misunderstood and mistreated women of the tales. The first story concerns the bored housewife, of a middle-aged husband, who willingly jumps into the arms of a roustabout. The second tale tells the story of a husband who is highly suspicious of his wife's fidelity and the wife's circumspect way of proving her virtue to her husband. The third story is an ineffectual lark about a wife who fools her indifferent husband into demonstrating his proper marital role. Boccaccio had to wait for Pier Pasolini in order to get the spirit of his Decameron right. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Hugo Fregonese
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
Unrated,
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Cast
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Joan Fontaine
as Bartolomea, Fiametta, Ginevra, Isabella
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Louis Jourdan
as Bertrando, Boccaccio, Giulio, Paganino
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Binnie Barnes
as Contessa, Nerina, Old Witch
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Joan Collins
as Pampinea
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Mara Lane
as Girl in Villa (Main Story)
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Godfrey Tearle
as Bemabo
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Noel Purcell
as Father Francisco [The Doctor's Daughter]
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Melissa Stribling
as Girls in Villa [Main Story]
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Eliot Makeham
as Governor of Majorca [Paganino The Pirate...
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Meinhart Maur
as Sultan [Wager For Virtue]
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Bert Bernard
as Messengers [Wager For Virtue]
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Van Boolen
as Captain [Wager For Virtue]
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Don Gordon Bell
as Merchant [Wager For Virtue]
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Hugh Morton
as King
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Marjorie Rhodes
as Signora Bucca [The Doctor's Daughter]
