Ghosts – Italian Style

1967 film

Adriano Baracco
Leonardo Benvenuti
Renato Castellani
Piero De Bernardi
Eduardo De Filippo
Tonino Guerra

Based onQuesti fantasmi
1946 play
by Eduardo De FilippoProduced byCarlo PontiStarring

Sophia Loren
Vittorio Gassman
Marcello Mastroianni
Aldo Giuffré

CinematographyTonino Delli ColliEdited byJolanda BenvenutiMusic byLuis BacalovDistributed by

Lux Film
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date

23 December 1967 (1967-12-23)

Running time

104 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

Ghosts – Italian Style (Italian: Questi fantasmi) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by Renato Castellani.^[1]

Plot

Pasquale Lojacono and his wife Maria are very poor, and do not have a roof over their head. One day they are invited to live free in an apartment of a building, considered by tenants cursed, because there dwells the ghost of an old Spanish nobleman. The two, however, accept coexistence with the spirit.

Cast

Sophia Loren as Maria Lojacono
Vittorio Gassman as Pasquale Lojacono
Mario Adorf as Alfredo Mariano
Aldo Giuffrè as Raffaele
Margaret Lee as Sayonara
Francis de Wolff as The Scotsman (as Francis De Wolffe)
Francesco Tensi as Professor Santanna
Augusta Merola as Anna
Piera Degli Esposti
Giovanni Tarallo
Nietta Zocchi
Valentino Macchi
Lucio Dalla as The Musician
Marcello Mastroianni as The Ghost (uncredited)

References

^ "NY Times: Ghosts - Italian Style". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2009.