Village of Daughters

Village of Daughters
Directed by George Pollock
Produced by George H. Brown
Written by David Pursall
Starring Eric Sykes
Scilla Gabel
John Le Mesurier
Grégoire Aslan
Graham Stark
Warren Mitchell
Music by Ron Goodwin
Cinematography Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by Tristam Cones
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release date
  • 13 March 1962 (1962-03-13)
Running time
 86 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Village of Daughters is a 1962 British comedy film directed by George Pollock.

Plot

Herbert Harris is a poor traveling salesman who is forced off the bus at a remote Italian village because he has no more money for the fare. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue him madly. Unbeknownst to him, the villager have a dilemma. Antonio is a wealthy businessman in London who, in accordance with his father's wish, has decided to marry a woman from his ancestral village. He writes to the mayor and asks him to choose. The mayor wants to select his daughter Annunziata, but the other villagers object. The village priest recommends that they leave the matter in the hands of God and let the first visitor to the village be the one to make the decision. That turns out to be Herbert.

Cast

Reception

According to MGM records the film made a loss of $268,000.[1]

References

  1. ↑ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .


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