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1953 · 87 mins · Italian
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Directed by
Luigi Comencini
Starring
Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Guglielmo Barnabò, Virgilio Riento, Maria Pia Casilio

The film delivers the kind of lively, light‑hearted romance that makes for great entertainment. A seasoned marshal is reassigned to a quiet village, where he soon finds himself enamored with two very different women—a practical midwife and a spirited, earthy youngster known as “Frisky”.

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