Five Golden Hours (1961)

Directors

Mario Zampi

Cast

Avice Landone, Bruno Barnabe, Clelia Matania, Cyd Charisse, Dennis Price, Ernie Kovacs, Finlay Currie, George Sanders, Hy Hazell, John Le Mesurier, Joy Shelton, Kay Hammond, Leonard Sachs, Liana Del Balzo, Marianne Stone, Martin Benson, Reginald Beckwith, Ron Moody, Sydney Tafler

The story

Aldo Bondi is a professional pallbearer and mourner in Rome who lives well off the extravagant gifts given to him by the rich widows he comforts. When he falls for the supposedly penniless Baroness Sandra – who is actually a rich "black widow" whose husbands all die – he concocts a Ponzi scheme to cheat three widows by taking money from them, telling them that he will invest it during the "five golden hours" between the closing of the stock exchange in Rome, and the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. However, the Baroness absconds with the cash, leaving Bondi in hock to the widows.

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