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The Winsome Widow

Name: The Winsome Widow
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1973-08-12
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 4.412

★ 4,4 /10 (17 Votes)

1973 IT 98 min

Overview

After the death of Salvatore in a car accident, his beautiful wife Catherine is preparing to collect the enormous legacy but, because the deceased did not make a will and when he was alive was sterile, his wife’s legacy will benefit only if, within three hundred days established by law, she will give birth to a son.

Release date

12/08/1973

Votes

Popularity

1.4

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Original title

La vedova inconsolabile ringrazia quanti la consolarono

Language

Runtime

98 min

Edwige Fenech

Caterina Prevosti

Carlo Giuffrè

Barone Carlo Niscemi

Didi Perego

Francesca, madre di Caterina

Guido Leontini

Tano Santenocito

Pino Ferrara

Nicolino Santenocito

Franco Ressel

l'avvocato di Caterina

Mario Maranzana

Salvatore Santenocito, marito di Caterina

Enzo Andronico

il notaio

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Fortunato Cecilia

il domestico (as Renato Cecilia)

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Paola Arduini

Carla Mancini

seconda babysitter

Luigi Antonio Guerra

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Angela Leontini

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Gino Pagnani

picciotto (uncredited)

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I've somehow managed to become a kind of connoisseur of 70's Italian sex comedies lately, so trust me when I say this is definitely one of the better ones. It has a GREAT plot: a man is killed in a car accident while rushing home to have sex with his wife. Because he died in testate, his considerable inheritance is to be split among his wife and his eleven no-account brothers. However, the dead man's scheming mother-in-law finds a loophole. If the wife (her daughter) is pregnant, the inheritance is all hers. And since she has 300 days to give birth to the "heir" (do the math there), she can ea…

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