The Miller's Beautiful Wife (Ponti-De Laurentiis; DCA), based on The Three-Cornered Hat, the well-known Spanish comedy of confusion by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, offers somewhat more confusion and rather less comedy than the novel. But the comedy is always pleasant, and the confusion, as Director Mario Camerini merrily confounds it in this Italian translation, has something of the suspense and desperate fascination of a tangle in milady's drawstrings.
Milady in this instance is the miller's beautiful wife (Sophia Loren). The miller's problem is that the governor of the province (Vittorio De...
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