The Secret of Santa Vittoria
The Secret of Santa Vittoria

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Bombolini is a fairly-worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes that he is the town's new leader. They surrender to him and make him the new mayor. He rises to the occasion and when... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Secret of Santa Vittoria:

Anthony Quinn
Anna Magnani
Giancarlo Giannini
Virna Lisi
Hardy Krüger
Wolfgang Jansen

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Bombolini is a fairly-worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give him confidence. The Fascist town council hears this and believes that he is the town's new leader. They surrender to him and make him the new mayor. He rises to the occasion and when he finds that the Germans plan to occupy his town and take their wine (over a million bottles), he works out a plan to hide it.

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Variety - 8/10 by Variety StaffCarrying charm, suspense, romance, the production offers Anthony Quinn at his seasoned best, a plot and unfoldment that holds the spectator.
New York Times - 3/10 by Vincent CanbyThere's not one affecting, surprising or spontaneous moment in the picture.
User Review - 10/10 by Swag VAnthony Quinn, Anna Magnani...Sinema için yaratılanlardan...
User Review - 10/10 by Vincent TIn my opinion it's one of the most underrated movies and one of the best performances by Anthony Quinn. I've been waiting for years for the DVD release.
User Review - 10/10 by Richard MOne of the most brilliant -- hillarious, original -- comedies I've ever seen. It was also one of the last two film appearances by the majestic Anna Magnani. A DVD release is SO OVERDUE!
User Review - 10/10 by Hugo FDid he ever give a bad performance? Did he ever appear to have even thought twice about stepping nonchalantly into the shoes of the rich characters he always played? Doesn't seem like it. I swear Quinn looks straight into your eye and makes you swear an oath of secrecy along with the whole town.
User Review - 10/10 by david hWhen the Germans occupy the wine producing town of Santa Vittoria the main fear the town has is that the Germans will get their wine. This is what the Germans want. Under the direction of Umberto Bombolini the town folk hide the wine, then the Germans set about to find it. All I've given away here is the set up. What follows is very funny and entertaining.
User Review - 10/10 by Gauru Gwatch the movie for the original scene that has been copied in SHOLAY
User Review - 10/10 by Ugur Ebikmadan defalarca izlenebilecek en neseli II. dunya savasi filmi. sarapseverler kacirmasin ;)
User Review - 8/10 by Jose Felix MAnthony Quinn looks like he is play "Zobra the Greek" again as a clownish Italian in director Stanley Kramer's predictable but entertaining comedy-drama "The Secret of Santa Vittoria," a World War II story that takes place in a hill town where wine is the chief virtue. There is a little too much comedy and not nearly enough edgy drama in this 139-minute film that won a Golden Globe. As the story unfolds, the citizens of Santa Vittoria rejoice when they learn that the tyrant dictator Mussolini has been deposed. The protagonist Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) gets roaring drunk on wine and ascends the water tower to paint out a pro-Mussolini slogan that he had painted on the structure some 20 years ago. "Asphalt Jungle" scenarist Ben Maddow and "The Ladykillers" scribe William Rose based their uneven but okay screenplay on Robert Crichton's novel about a town that hides a million bottles of wine from the occupying forces of the German army. What makes this comedy-drama worth watching are the performances of Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisa, and Hardy Kruger. Initially, everybody thinks that Italo is a complete buffoon so they make him mayor. He surprises them and uses political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli's tract "The Prince" as a guide to his administration. Before long he has the entire town eating out of his hand with the sole exception of his harridan wife, Rosa (Anna Magnani of "The Red Rose"), who cannot stand the sight of him. A teenager named Fabio (Giancarlo Giannini of "Quantum of Solace") is in love with Italo's daughter, but he leaves the town so he can continue his education at the university. When he arrives at the university, Fabio learns that the Germans will occupy Santa Vittoria in a few week and most likely confiscate the town's supply of wine. He rides his bicycle back home and warns Italo, and the citizens scramble to hide the wine. Initially, they try to cart it off to a Roman cave, but all the carts seem to breakdown and there is a massive traffic jam in the town square. Reluctantly, Italo changes his plans and a Fascist deserter, Tufa (Sergio Franchi of "Curse of the Red Butterfly") tells him to use the entire town in the form of two human chains to hand the bottles of wine one-by-one to each other over a half-mile to get the wine safely to the Roman caves. Mind you, they have to pause because the citizens start to get careless and drop bottles. One of Italo's closest advisors suggests that Italo keep 300-thousand bottles of wine to give to the Nazis because they know the enemy will not believe them if they hide all of the wine. Eventually, they hide the wine and double-brick up the passageways. Captain von Prum (Hardy Kruger of "The Wild Geese") arrives with a small detachment of German troops and they occupy the town. Von Prum and Italo bargain about the percentage of wine that the town must give up to the Germans, while von Prum actively tries to romance Caterina Malatesta (Italian beauty Virna Lisa of "Queen Margot") who has fallen in love with the Fascist deserter. Everything looks rosy until the Gestapo show up and explain that the bookkeepers at the winery out-of-town calculate that over a million bottles of wine have not been accounted for. Von Prum spends 36 hours turning the town inside out, but he finds nothing. The Gestapo take two hostages and torture them in the Roman caves where the wine is hidden under their noses, but the hostages are Fascists who were being held captive by the townspeople. The Gestapo learn nothing from the discredited Fascists and the Germans leave Santa Vittoria and Italo Bombolini is celebrated as a hero and he wins a renewal of respect from his bitter wife.

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