{"product_id":"the-inconsolable-widow-thanks-all-those-who-consoled-her-1973-720p","title":"The Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her (1973) 720P","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItalian audio with dubbed English subtitles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe plot hinges on a Boccaccio-style legal loophole. Caterina Santonocito (Edwige Fenech) is a young widow whose wealthy, impotent husband dies in a car accident without leaving a will. By Italian law, Caterina can only inherit his immense fortune if she gives birth to an heir within 300 days of his death. Otherwise, the money defaults to his husband’s greedy brothers, Tano and Nicolino.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer mother, Francesca (Didi Perego), is a fancy older, but certainly not old, debutante now used to living in a villa and having servants. The mother daughter dynamic perfectly sets up the film's twists and turns. Nicolino (brother of deceased husband) sneaks into the villa in the dark to sleep with Caterina, but in a classic vaudevillian bed-swap, he accidentally sleeps with Francesca. Fast forward nine months: Caterina successfully secures the inheritance by giving birth to a child after sleeping with Baron Carlo Niscemi (a penniless aristocrat that lost all his money to her deceased husband), while the goofball Nicolino discovers that in the dark, he actually impregnated Edwige’s mother Francesca and has to enter a loveless marriage to save face and honor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy 1973, Fenech had become the defining face of Italian adult comedies. What makes her performance in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa vedova inconsolabile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e notable is her strict comedic control. Check out my other Edwige Films for more trivia about her off-screen life. It is rumored that she had a child with the head of Ferrari and she actually led a very conservative life offscreen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe actress playing Caterina's mother, Didi Perego was an award winning decorated dramatic talent. She also had international reach, appearing in Sidney Lumet’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Appointment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and British series like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Avengers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe film was a massive commercial hit, grossing 692 million lira in Italy. However, critics hated it. Prominent Italian critic Claudio G. Fava famously trashed it as \"the worst side of Italian mainstream cinema, devoid of any brightness and intelligence.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally slapped with a strict V.M. 18 rating due to its double entendres and risqué situations (very tame in my humble opinion), in a surprising twist, the Italian ministerial review board officially removed the ban in March 2005, reclassifying it for general audiences. The 300 day rule actually existed in Italy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is widely known internationally under the alternate titles La vedova inconsolabile ringrazia quanti la consolaronoThe Inconsolable Widow Thanks All Those Who Consoled Her and The Winsome Widow, as well as Consolar a la viuda italiana. The film was directed by Mariano Laurenti and produced by Leo Cevenini and Vittorio Martino by now defunct studios. The production was filmed on location in Acireale (in the province of Catania, Sicily) and Frascati (near Rome). Depending on the specific international cut or restoration, the film has a running time of 94, 98, or 105 minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild n Crazy Sixties \u0026 Seventies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53490125537493,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/5051\/0805\/files\/LaVedovaInconsoliable.jpg?v=1774711120","url":"https:\/\/wildcrazymovies.com\/products\/the-inconsolable-widow-thanks-all-those-who-consoled-her-1973-720p","provider":"Wild n Crazy Sixties \u0026 Seventies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}