Decameron Nights (1953)

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Country: Spain, UK
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Release: 1953-11-16
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Stars: Joan Fontaine , Joan Fontaine , Joan Fontaine , Louis Jourdan , Louis Jourdan , Louis Jourdan , Godfrey Tearle , Godfrey Tearle , Joan Collins (I) , Joan Collins (I) , Binnie Barnes , Binnie Barnes , Binnie Barnes , Meinhart Maur , Gordon Whiting , Gordon Bell , Van Boolen , Melissa Stribling
Runtime: 93 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Decameronen lemmenöitä (Finland) , Το δεκαήμερον του Βοκάκκιου (Greece) , Notti del Decamerone (Italy) , Noites de Decameron (Brazil) , Ночі Декамерону (Ukraine) , Декамеронски нощи (Bulgaria) , Dekamerons nætter (Denmark) , Decameron Nights , Decameron geceleri (Turkey) , Noce Dekamerona (Poland) , Boccaccios Liebesnächte (Austria) , Boccaccios große Liebe , Decameron Nights (United States of America) , デカメロン夜話（1953） (Japan) , Três Histórias de Amor (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Pages galantes de Boccace (France, French Republic) , Tres historias de amor (Spain) , Decameron Nights (United Kingdom) , Boccaccios Liebesnächte , To dekaimeron tou Vokkakiou (Greece) , Deliciosas Noites de Amor (Brazil) , Afsanehaye ashgh (Iran) , Lustans lön (Sweden)
Plot: The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-widowed Fiametta spurns overtures of love offered by the philandering Boccaccio who, in an effort to win her, spins two of his stories: The first is "Paganino the Pirate", a spicy tale of a young wife, married to an elderly gent, who prefers astrology to martial bliss, permits herself to be captured by a young pirate, to teach her husband a lesson. The second tale is "Wager on Virtue", concerning an elderly merchant,who loses faith in his beautiful young wife, on the strength of circumstantial evidence present him by a daring young rogue, who has previously goaded him into a bet on his wife's virtue, or lack thereof. The characters in this segment include Nerina, The Sultan, the Merchant Captain, a Merchant in French Inn and George and Bert Bernard as messengers. The third story, told by Fiametta, is "The Doctor's Daughter," concerning a delicate matter of matrimony when a wife, Isabella , finds herself spurned by the man, Bertrando, who has wed her at the command of his King. Characters include Maria, The Old Witch, Father Francaisco, and Signora Bucca.
IMDB:tt0045675