
A comedy of errors in which the sweetly-incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.... (Full plot summary below)
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A comedy of errors in which the sweetly-incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
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