Chains
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After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation. There’s a touch of noir in Chains, in which the saintly yet earthy Yvonne Sanson, as the devoted wife of a mechanic (Amedeo Nazzari), finds herself unwillingly drawn back to an ex-love who has turned to crime.
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Cast
- Amedeo Nazzari
- Gugliemo
- Yvonne Sanson
- Rosa
- Aldo Nicodemi
- Emilio
- Teresa Franchini
- Gugliemo’s mother
- Gianfranco Magalotti
- Tonino
- Rosalia Rendazzo
- Angela
- Roberto Murolo
- Singer
- Aldo Silvani
- Defense lawyer
Credits
- Director
- Raffaello Matarazzo
- Producer
- Goffredo Lombardo
- Screenplay
- Aldo De Benedetti
- Screenplay
- Nicola Manzari
- Screenplay
- Libero Bovio
- Story
- Libero Bovio
- Story
- Gaspare Di Majo
- Cinematography
- Mario Montuori
- Art direction
- Ottavio Scotti
- Art direction
- Gino Brosio
- Editing
- Mario Serandrei
- Music
- Gino Campase
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