Comedy

The Winsome Widow

After the death of Salvatore in a car accident, his beautiful wife Catherine is preparing to collect the enormous legacy but, because the deceased did not make a will and when he was alive was sterile, his wife’s legacy will benefit only if, within three hundred days established by law, she will give birth to a son.

Release Date : 1973-08-12

Language :Italian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Flora FilmVariety Film

Production Country : Italy

Alternative Titles : The Sad Widow

Cast

Character Name : Caterina Prevosti

Original Name : Edwige Fenech

Gender : Female

Character Name : Barone Carlo Niscemi

Original Name : Carlo Giuffrè

Gender : Male

Character Name : Francesca, madre di Caterina

Original Name : Didi Perego

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tano Santenocito

Original Name : Guido Leontini

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nicolino Santenocito

Original Name : Pino Ferrara

Gender : Male

Character Name : l'avvocato di Caterina

Original Name : Franco Ressel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Salvatore Santenocito, marito di Caterina

Original Name : Mario Maranzana

Gender : Male

Character Name : il notaio

Original Name : Enzo Andronico

Gender : Male

Character Name : il domestico (as Renato Cecilia)

Original Name : Fortunato Cecilia

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Paola Arduini

Gender : Male

Character Name : seconda babysitter

Original Name : Carla Mancini

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Luigi Antonio Guerra

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Angela Leontini

Gender : Female

Character Name : picciotto (uncredited)

Original Name : Gino Pagnani

Gender : Male

Reviews

DrMarty

@DrMarty

2021-06-23

I've somehow managed to become a kind of connoisseur of 70's Italian sex comedies lately, so trust me when I say this is definitely one of the better ones. It has a GREAT plot: a man is killed in a car accident while rushing home to have sex with his wife. Because he died in testate, his considerable inheritance is to be split among his wife and his eleven no-account brothers. However, the dead man's scheming mother-in-law finds a loophole. If the wife (her daughter) is pregnant, the inheritance is all hers. And since she has 300 days to give birth to the "heir" (do the math there), she can easily make use of a surrogate father (if she hurries) to produce this heir. But where will she ever find a willing surrogate? Well, since the wife is played by the voluptuous Edwige Fenech, THAT is certainly not going to be a problem. In fact, the brothers, many of whom are low-level mafiosi, have to recruit a bunch of goons to keep away the mob of male suitors who want to "console" this "inconsolable widow", but then they even have to worry these virile toughs might themselves prove TOO right for the job. Fenech's character herself goes from a shy, demure woman manipulated by her grasping mother to a more than active participant in the scheme, justifying herself all the way in hilarious monologues with her dead husbands photograph (which keeps changing expressions). Fenech here shows why she was the reigning queen of 70's sex comedies. Even with the usual bad English dubbing, she delivers a very funny performance that would be worthwhile even if she didn't take her clothes off (but, of course, she DOES take her clothes off too). Fenech managed to work with pretty much all the 70's Italian sex comedy directors from the best (Sergio Martino, Lucio Fulci) to the relative hacks (Michele Massimo Tarantini). The director of this one, Mario Laurenti, with whom Fenech also made "Ubalda, All Naked and Warm", "Vice in the Family", and "Schoolteacher in a Boy's College" among others, was kind of in the middle of the pack, but he definitely does an adequate job here. But it would have been hard for any director to screw this up with such a great concept and such sexy AND genuinely talented leading lady. I can even pay this the ultimate compliment for an Italian sex romp and say that it would have been entertaining comedy even WITHOUT the sex. (I know--the mind boggles). Recommended.