Wealth Without a Future (Italian:Ricchezza senza domani) is a 1939 Italian drama film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Lamberto Picasso, Paola Borboni and Doris Duranti. A wealthy industrialist retires to live in the countryside.
, 2h18 Directed byVittorio De Sica OriginItalie GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsSilvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Paolo Stoppa, Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Giacomo Furia Rating72% The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes: a clown exploited by a hoodlum; an unfaithful pizza seller (Loren) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a child; the impoverished inveterate gambler Count Prospero B. being reduced to force his concierge's preteen kid to play cards with him (and regularly being defeated); the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the exploits of "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller" who "solves problems".