MGM
Directed by Renato Castellani
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman impulsively wed and then struggle to stay together, mainly due to a lack of money. Gassman lucks into a rent-free deal in a luxury location, which is supposedly haunted. Gassman begins seeing what he thinks is a ghost, but is actually Sophia's suitor, who is stalking her from upstairs. This leads to some occasionally funny situational comedy. My favorite scenes involve the nuns who run the orphanage where Sophia was raised. There is the telephone call to the "Holy Souls in Purgatory", the name of the orphanage, but Gassman thinks it really is purgatory, and later when he attempts to contact the ghost through magic, dozens of nuns show up instead. The irony of course is that there never really is a ghost, well that is until the last scene in Scotland where a headless one does appear briefly.
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