“Avanti!” quotes
(1972)
Title Avanti!
Year 1972
Director Billy Wilder
Genre Comedy, Romance
Year 1972
Director Billy Wilder
Genre Comedy, Romance
Plot – Wendell Ambruster Junior, a 42-year-old industrialist, travels to the island of Ischia to collect his departed father, Wendell Ambruster Senior, who died in an accident, and take him to America, where a grand funeral is being prepared. During his trip, Wendell meets Pamela Piggott, a woman from London, that has come to Ischia to collect her mother's body. Cathrine, the girl's mother, has been Wendell Senior's lover for two years and has died in the same accident.
All actors – Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews, Gianfranco Barra, Franco Angrisano, Pippo Franco, Franco Acampora, Giselda Castrini, Raffaele Mottola, Lino Coletta, Harry Ray, Guidarino Guidi, Giacomo Rizzo, Antonino Faà di Bruno, Yanti Somer, Janet Agren, María Rosa Sclauzero, Melù Valente, Aldo Rendine, , Bruno Alias, Sergio Bruni, Pasquale Campagnola, Lella Cattaneo, Nestore Cavaricci, Enrico Cesaretti, Armando De Martino, Giorgio Dolfin, Andrea Esterhazy, Ferruccio Fregonese, Ettore Geri, Armando Giovagnoli, Ty Hardin, Margherita Horowitz, Silvio Klein, Alba Maiolini, Giuseppe Marrocco, Anna Maria Perego, Luigi Scavran, Pupita Lea Scuderoni, Maria Tedeschi, Giuseppe Terranova, Bruno Tocci, Sandra Wolff, Lidia Zanussi
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“Miss Piggott! Please keep in mind that it's Sunday, and this is a Catholic country!”
“- J.J. Blodgett: We're appointing your father commercial attaché to the embassy in Rome, and that entitles him to all the rights and immunities of a diplomat.
- Wendell Armbruster: But wait a minute, we're going to appoint him...
- J.J. Blodgett: Why not?
- Wendell Armbruster: A dead man?
- J.J. Blodgett: Just proves that we don't...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Wendell Armbruster: Is this how justice works in Italy?
- Carlo Carlucci: Shold we talk about Sacco and Vanzetti?”“- J.J. Blodgett: Maybe it's one of those Greek islands?
- Helicopter pilot: No sir, Greece is way to the left.
- J.J. Blodgett: Not as long as I am with the State Department!”“I don't object to foreigners speaking a foreign language. I just wish they'd all speak the same foreign language.”
“- Pamela Piggott: I guess there is something to what it says in the tourist guide.
- Wendell Armbruster: What does it say?
- Pamela Piggott: It says Italy is not a country - it's an emotion.
- Wendell Armbruster: Well, it's certainly been an experience!”“- Carlo Carlucci: In Italy, the lunch hour is from one to four.
- Wendell Armbruster: Three hours for lunch?
- Carlo Carlucci: Mr. Armbruster. Here we do not rush to drugstore for chicken sandwich & Coca-Cola. Here, we take our time. We cook our pasta, we sprinkle our Parmigiano, we drink our wine, we make our love...
- Wendell Armbruster:...” (continue)(continue reading)
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