New, restored high-definition digital transfer Commedia all'italiana: germi style, a video piece featuring new interviews with screenwriters Furio Scarpelli and Luciano Vincenzoni and Italian film scholar Mario Sesti Interviews with actors Stefania Sandrelli and Lando Buzzanca Stefania Sandrelli screen test Theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation Plus: a new essay by film scholar Irene Bignardi Region: 1
[Special Edition]
[Criterion Collection] Audio: DD1
Genre: Comedy Theatrical Release: 01/30/1964(Italy) Release Date: 08/29/2006 SubTitles: English Dubbed: Italian Sound: DD1 Run Time: 117 Minutes Flags: Questionable for Children Distributor/Studio: Criterion
Mistakenly labeled as a neorealist drama in some sources, Seduced and Abandoned is actually a slyly constructed Italian domestic comedy (could anyone have really taken that florid title seriously?) Aldo Puglisi plays a "love 'em and leave 'em" type who impregnates the teen-aged sister (Stefania Sandrelli) of his own fiancee (Paola Biggio). Saro Urzi, the girls' infuriated father, insists that Puglisi break off with the older girl to marry the younger. The police get into the act, threatening to arrests Puglisi for corrupting the morals of a minor. Through some quick thinking on his part, Puglisi manages to get the younger girl to indignantly refuse his hand in marriage. The family is torn asunder by this incident, with darkly comic results.
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