It Started In Naples (1960)

• Director
  • Melville Shavelson
• Writers
  • Melville Shavelson(screenplay)
  • Jack Rose(screenplay)
  • Suso Cecchi D'Amico(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Clark Gable
  • Sophia Loren
  • Vittorio De Sica

  With top stars Clark Gable as the American Michael Hamilton and Sophia Loren as the very Italian Lucia Curcio, this comedy by director Michael Shavelson already has a lot going for it. Michael is a lawyer who arrives in Naples to wrap up the estate of his dead brother, killed in an automobile accident. At issue is not so much his material possessions as the ten-year-old son Nando (Marietto) that he left behind. Nando's mother also died in the accident and her unmarried sister Lucia has claimed him as her own. As Michael and Lucia clash over legal custody of the young orphan, romantic sparks start to fly from all that friction, making the situation of Nando's custody just a little more complicated.