A Tale of Five Cities [A Tale of Five Women] * (1951, Bonar Colleano, Gina Lollobrigida, Barbara Kelly, Lana Morris, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok)  – Classic Movie Review 13,563

The 1951 British-Italian omnibus romantic comedy drama film A Tale of Five Cities [A Tale of Five Women] stars Bonar Colleano, Gina Lollobrigida, Barbara Kelly, Lana Morris, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok.

The 1951 British-Italian omnibus romantic comedy drama film A Tale of Five Cities [A Tale of Five Women] stars Bonar Colleano, Gina Lollobrigida, Barbara Kelly, Lana Morris, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok, and Karin Himboldt. The five cities are Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, and Vienna.

In postwar Berlin, Englishman Bob Mitchell (Bonar Colleano), a Royal Air Force airman in World War Two, is now suffering from amnesia after a drunken accident in a Berlin nightclub, and searches five European cities, with the help of a New York magazine writer called Lesley (Barbara Kelly), hoping to remember his past and why he has five banknotes from different countries all bearing women’s signatures. Weirdly, one of the women (Lana Morris) is his sister, an English trapeze lady.

An intriguing, oddball idea is a bold venture, but sadly makes a rather boring travelogue here, though it does look good, and the cast is interesting too, in some cases fascinating.

It is directed by Romolo Marcellini, Emil E Reinert, Wolfgang Staudte, Montgomery Tully, Irma von Cube and Géza von Cziffra.

It is written by Maurice J Wilson, Jacques Companéez, Patrick Kirwan, Richard Llewellyn, Alexander Paal, Piero Tellini and Günther Weisenborn.

 It is shot at the Riverside Studios and Walton Studios as well as on location around the five cities. 

The cast are Bonar Colleano, Gina Lollobrigida, Barbara Kelly, Lana Morris, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok, Karin Himboldt, Geoffrey Sumner, Lily Kann, Danny Green, Carl Jaffe, Philip Leaver, Annette Poivre, Charles Irwin, MacDonald Parke, Arthur Gomez, Althea Orr, Andrew Irvine, Terence Alexander, Raymond Bussières, Marcello Mastroianni, and Enzo Staiola.

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