Big Shoes
Directed by Dino Falconi
Written by Sándor Hunyady (play)
Dino Falconi
Produced by Salvatore Persichetti
Starring
  • Amedeo Nazzari
  • Lilia Silvi
  • Elena Altieri
Cinematography Domenico Scala
Edited by Ines Donarelli
Vincenzo Sorelli
Music by Ettore Montanaro
Production
company
Fono Roma
Distributed by ENIC
Release date
  • 12 October 1940 (1940-10-12)
Running time
83 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Big Shoes (Italian: Scarpe grosse) is a 1940 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Dino Falconi and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lilia Silvi and Elena Altieri.[1] It is based on a play by Sándor Hunyady which had previously been turned into a 1939 Hungarian film Istvan Bors.

It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Camillo Del Signore.

Cast

  • Amedeo Nazzari as Stefano Di Marco
  • Lilia Silvi as Ninì
  • Elena Altieri as Marta
  • Enzo Biliotti as Il conte Carlo Garlandi
  • Tina Lattanzi as Sofia Garlandi
  • Lauro Gazzolo as Giancola
  • Olinto Cristina as Dossena, l'amministratore
  • Beatrice Mancini as Maria
  • Emilio Petacci as Il notaio Sandelli
  • Oreste Fares as Il curato
  • Gualtiero De Angelis as Il procuratore Guzzini
  • Gorella Gori as Concetta, la cuoca
  • Franca Volpini as Annetta, la cameriera
  • Gastone Schirato as Michele, il maggiordomo
  • Oscar Andriani as Un braccianto
  • Fedele Gentile as L'altro braccianto
  • Alfredo Menichelli as Gastone

References

  1. ^ Pruzzo & Lancia p.63

Bibliography

  • Piero Pruzzo & Enrico Lancia. Amedeo Nazzari. Gremese Editore, 1983.