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1950 film

The Vow

Directed by	Mario Bonnard
Written by	Mario Bonnard
Based on	The Vow 188 play by Salvatore Di Giacomo
Produced by	Angelo Iacono
Starring	Doris Duranti Giorgio De Lullo Maria Grazia Francia
Cinematography	Tonino Delli Colli
Edited by	Gino Talamo
Music by	Giulio Bonnard
Production company	Ara Film
Distributed by	Indipendenti Regionali
Release date	30 September 1950 (1950-09-30)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Vow (Italian: Il voto) is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Doris Duranti, Giorgio De Lullo and Maria Grazia Francia. It is based on a play of the same title by Salvatore Di Giacomo. Future star Sophia Loren played a small, uncredited role. It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

Plot

During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.

Sansone, Matteo (1994). "Giordano's 'Mala vita': A 'verismo' Opera Too True to be Good". Music & Letters. 75 (3): 381–400. doi:10.1093/ml/75.3.381. JSTOR 737344.
Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
Goble p.125

Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

v t e Films directed by Mario Bonnard
The Betrothed (1923) The Circus of Life (1926) The Golden Abyss (1927) The Sinner (1928) Theatre (1928) Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928) Call at Midnight (1929) The Call of the North (1929) The Son of the White Mountain (1930) Five to Nil (1932) No Women (1932) Three Lucky Fools (1933) The Missing Treaty (1933) The Wedding March (1934) Territorial Militia (1935) Adam's Tree (1936) Thirty Seconds of Love (1936) The Ferocious Saladin (1937) The Count of Brechard (1938) I, His Father (1939) Frenzy (1939) Father for a Night (1939) The King's Jester (1941) Marco Visconti (1941) Before the Postman (1942) Rossini (1942) The Peddler and the Lady (1943) Romulus and the Sabines (1945) What a Distinguished Family (1945) Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946) City of Pain (1948) Margaret of Cortona (1950) The Vow (1950) Stasera sciopero (1951) The Last Sentence (1951) Torment of the Past (1952) I figli non si vendono (1952) Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953) Concert of Intrigue (1954) They Stole a Tram (1954) La ladra (1955) Allow Me, Daddy! (1956) Slave Women of Corinth (1958) The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Gastone (1960) Rome 1585 (1961)

Films directed by Mario Bonnard

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