A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Acting
Lollobrigida weaponizes charm like a loaded gun.
Direction
Dassin builds tension through sweaty bodies and power stares.
Cinematography
Sun-bleached Mediterranean colors that feel vaguely threatening.
Director
Jules Dassin
Gina Lollobrigida
Marietta
Pierre Brasseur
Don Cesare
Marcello Mastroianni
Enrico Tosso
Melina Mercouri
Donna Lucrezia
Yves Montand
Matteo Brigante
Raf Mattioli
Francesco Brigante
Vittorio Caprioli
Attilio
Lidia Alfonsi
Giuseppina
Nino Vingelli
Pizzaccio
Bruno Carotenuto
Balbo
Paolo Stoppa
Tonio
Luisa Rivelli
Elvira
Anna Arena
Anna - la moglie d'Attilio
Gianrico Tedeschi
Primo disoccupato
Anna Maria Bottini
Maria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as 'Room at the Top,' this was part of a wave of European cinema openly interrogating postwar class and sexual politics.
Dassin had been blacklisted in Hollywood for a decade; this was his defiant return to form, shot in Greece with his future wife Melina Mercouri in a supporting role.
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