Big Shoes (1940)

Original title

Scarpe grosse

Directed by

Dino Falconi

Genre

comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man takes over for someone else and ends up in romantic entanglements. The story follows the chaos and comedy that results from the swapped identities.

lightheartedbreezywhimsicalnostalgicmelodramaticromantic

What happens

Big Shoes (Italian: Scarpe grosse) is a 1940 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Dino Falconi and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lilia Silvi and Elena Altieri. It is based on a play by Sándor Hunyady which had previously been turned into a 1939 Hungarian film Istvan Bors. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Piero Filippone and Camillo Del Signore. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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