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Director:
Writer:
Jules Dassin (writer)
Release Date:
1 October 1960 (USA)
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Plot:
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving a prostitute he's infatuated with. full summary | full synopsis
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Prostitute
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Greece
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Piraeus Greece
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Jail
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Organ Grinder
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 1 win
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8 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Director Dassin Dies
(From WENN. 31 March 2008, 6:33 PM, PDT)
Dassin, Hershfeld To Show Early Work
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 October 2001)
(From WENN. 31 March 2008, 6:33 PM, PDT)
Dassin, Hershfeld To Show Early Work
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 October 2001)
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Mercouri is Dazzling
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Melina Mercouri | ... | Ilya | |
| Jules Dassin | ... | Homer Thrace | |
| Giorgos Foundas | ... | Tonio | |
| Titos Vandis | ... | Jorgo | |
| Mitsos Ligizos | ... | The Captain (as Mitsos Lygizos) | |
| Despo Diamantidou | ... | Despo | |
| Dimos Starenios | ... | Poubelle | |
| Dimitris Papamichael | ... | A Sailor (as Dimitri Papamichael) | |
| Alexis Solomos | ... | Noface | |
| Thanasis Vengos | (as Thanassis Veggos) | ||
| Faidon Georgitsis | ... | Sailor | |
| Nikos Fermas | ... | Waiter | |
| Artemis Matsas | |||
| Koula Agagiotou | |||
| Panos Karavousanos |
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Runtime:
91 min | Argentina:93 min | USA:97 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:6 (re-rating) (2005) |
Australia:PG |
Argentina:16 |
Brazil:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
UK:PG (video rating) (2000) |
UK:X (original rating)
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Features first song ("Never On Sunday") from a foreign-made movie to win an Oscar.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in It's My Party (1996)
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Soundtrack:
Ein Schiff wird kommen
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Melina Mercouri takes an often-played role - the 'Whore with a Heart of Gold who Loves Life Despite It All' - and makes it her career-defining movie role, and she is the entire reason to watch the movie. Fiercely independent, sexually progressive, not spending her life trying to find the perfect man and gorgeous, she's a force of life.
Jules Dassin has directed a great movie but he should have hired an actor to play Homer, and not played it himself. He almost ruins all the charm the movie has going for it with his ineffective acting, bad line readings and stupid motivations. A better actor might have found a way around the rough spots but Dassin magnifies them.
Mercouri probably should have won Best Actress that year, but who can beat a Liz Taylor death scare? Plus Simeone Signoret had won Best Actress the year before, and Sophia Loren would win the following year..you don't want to upset icons like Louella Parsons, Frank Sinatra and John Wayne by giving ALL the Oscars to foreigners, do you?? Maybe the fact that she does not die at the end was too much..we all know the odds of longevity for a hooker in a Hollywood movie. Taylor met that criteria, as if she needed to help her own odds after almost dying of pneumonia.
Worth watching for sure. 8/10.