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Five Golden Hours is a film of genre Comedy directed by Mario Zampi released in USA on 1 february 1961 with Cyd Charisse

Five Golden Hours (1961)

Five Golden Hours
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Released in USA 1 february 1961
Length 1h30
Directed by
Genres Comedy
Rating56% 2.808682.808682.808682.808682.80868

Five Golden Hours is a 1961 Italian-British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and written by Hans Wilhelm, starring Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse and George Sanders, and featuring Dennis Price and John Le Mesurier.

Synopsis

Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) is a professional pallbearer and mourner in Rome who lives well off the extravagant gifts given to him by the rich widows he comforts. When he falls for the supposedly penniless Baroness Sandra (Charisse) – who is actually a rich "black widow" whose husbands all die – he concocts a Ponzi scheme to bilk three widows by taking money from them, telling them that he will invest it during the "five golden hours" between the closing of the stock exchange in Rome, and the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. However, the Baroness absconds with the cash, leaving Bondi in hock to the widows. He attempts to kill them, but the scheme fails and he pretends to have gone insane. In the sanatarium, his roommate is another debtor feigning madness, Mr. Bing (Sanders).

Actors

Cyd Charisse

(Baroness Sandra)Ernie Kovacs

(Aldo Bondi)George Sanders

(Mr. Bing)Kay Hammond

(Martha)Dennis Price

(Raphael)
And :
Clelia Matania
John Le Mesurier
Finlay Currie
Reginald Beckwith
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