Le bambole (1965)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Directors:

Mauro Bolognini
Luigi Comencini

Writers:

Rodolfo Sonego (screenplay)
Rodolfo Sonego (story)

Release Date:

27 January 1965 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Affair | Sex | Episodic Structure | Commedia All'italiana | Italian Comedy

Cast

Virna Lisi	...	Luisa (segment "Telefonata, La")
Nino Manfredi	...	Giorgio (segment "Telefonata, La")
Alicia Brandet	...	Armenia (segment "Telefonata, La")
Monica Vitti	...	Giovanna (segment "Minestra, La")
John Karlsen	...	Husband (segment "Minestra, La")
Orazio Orlando	...	Richetto, amante (segment "Minestra, La")
De Simone	...	Peppe (segment "Minestra, La")
Elke Sommer	...	Ulla (segment "Trattato di Eugenetica, Il")
Piero Focaccia	...	Valerio (segment "Tratatto di Eugenetica, Il")
Maurizio Arena	...	Massimo (segment "Trattato di Eugenetica, Il")
Gina Lollobrigida	...	Beatrice (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
Jean Sorel	...	Vincenzo (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
Akim Tamiroff	...	Monsignor Arendi (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Camillo Milli
Gianni Rizzo	...	Hotel Manager

Also Known As:

Four Kinds of Love (UK)
Les poupées (France)
The Doll that Took the Town (USA) (DVD box title)
The Dolls (USA)

Runtime:

Italy:107 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:16 | Italy:VM18

Company:

Documento Film

Elke Sommer...hubba hubba

My rating of 10/10 of course applies only if you're a horny teenage boy. Considering that the movie stars Elke Sommer, I probably don't need to explain the plot (the sexual exploits of a bunch of women). I can also note that Virna Lisi, Monica Vitti and Gina Lollobrigida co-star, and...you know something? Let me explain in the next paragraph.

The skin flicks of the 1960s were cool, but what they should have done in, say, 1966 was make one big movie starring Marcello Mastroianni, Dick Van Dyke, Audrey Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Sean Connery, Buck Henry, Tippi Hedren, Larry Hagman, Robert Reed, Elizabeth Montgomery, Tina Louise, Barbara Eden, Paul Naschy, Sophia Loren, Bob Denver, Connie Hines, Jack Nicholson, Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Elke Sommer, Faye Dunaway and Sandra Dee all having a big orgy (if you don't know who some of those people are, then shame on you*). I would have paid to see that kind of movie! *Just kidding! It's probably sort of weird that I know who every one of those individuals is! But I still would have paid to see that kind of movie.