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{{Short description|1938 film by Max Neufeld}}

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| runtime = 95 minutes| country = ItalyItalian language>Italian| budget = | gross = }}The House of Shame (Italian: La casa del peccato) is a 1938 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Assia Noris and Alida Valli.Nowell-Smith p.119It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin. The film was the first time Nazzari and Valli co-starred together, as they would later go on to do a number of films.

Synopsis

A wife, concerned that her husband does not love her, pretends to have another suitor in order to make him jealous. Getting wise to this, he in turn pretends to have a new girlfriend.

Cast

• Amedeo Nazzari as Giulio
• Assia Noris as Renata
• Umberto Melnati as Massimo
• Alida Valli as La ragazza
• Giulio Stival as Un amico di Giulio
• Giuseppe Porelli as Il maggiordomo
• Aristide Baghetti
• Giuseppe Bordonaro
• Vasco Creti
• Corrado De Cenzo
• Jone Morino
• Tatiana Pavoni
• Teodoro Pescara Pateras
• Giuseppe Pierozzi
• Sandra Ravel

References

Bibliography

• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey & Hay, James & Volpi, Gianni. The Companion to Italian Cinema. Cassell, 1996.

External links

• {{IMDb title|0029975}}

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