Village of Daughters
Encyclopedia
Village of Daughters is a 1962
British
comedy film directed by George Pollock.
1962 in film
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British
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
comedy film directed by George Pollock.
Plot
Herbert Harris is a traveling salesman who makes his way into a remote Italian village to sell his wares. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue him madly. He quickly learns that the village has all but one single man left, as the majority have left to find work. The only single man left is Antonio, a wealthy foreigner who is looking for a bride. Due to the large selection of women, a rule was created prior to the arrival of Harris, that the first outsider to enter the village would be the one to make the ultimate choice of the man's bride.Cast
- Eric Sykes.....Herbert Harris
- Scilla Gabel.....Angelina Vimereati
- John Le Mesurier.....Don Calogere
- Grégoire Aslan.....Gastoni
- Graham Stark.....Postman
- Warren Mitchell.....Puccelli
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