Village of Daughters
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Village of Daughters is a 1962
1962 in film
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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
  • Yvonne Romain
    Yvonne Romain
    Yvonne Romain is a British film and television actress of the late 1950s and 1960s.-Early career:...

    .....Annunziata
  • Eric Pohlmann
    Eric Pohlmann
    Eric Pohlmann was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor.Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt...

    .....Marcio
  • Ina De La Haye.....Maria Gastoni
  • Peter Illing
    Peter Illing
    Peter Illing was an Austrian born, British film and television actor.-Filmography:* Silver Darlings * The End of the River * Against the Wind * Traveller's Joy...

    .....Alfredo Predati
  • Jill Carson.....Lucia Puccelli
  • Monte Landis
    Monte Landis
    Monte Landis is an American character actor best known for playing the comic foil in multiple episodes of The Monkees, most notably the Devil in "The Devil and Peter Tork".-Partial filmography:*The Mouse That Roared...

    ......Faccino
  • Talitha Pol.....Gioia Spartaco
  • Edwin Richfield
    Edwin Richfield
    Edwin Richfield was an English actor.His film credits include: X the Unknown, Quatermass 2, The Camp on Blood Island, The Face of Fu Manchu and Quatermass and the Pit....

    .....Balbino
  • Mario Fabrizi
    Mario Fabrizi
    Mario Fabrizi was an English comedian and actor of Italian descent active in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s....

    .....Antonio Durigo
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