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Decameron Nights

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This early 1950's rendition of Boccaccio's late Medieval anthology of romantic stories is a special cinematic offering. While the film does not attempt to convey the literary work's bawdy details and less than idealistic depiction of human nature, it surely delivers a memorable and entertaining movie blessed with beautiful cinematography and excellent acting by the likes of Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, and a young Joan Collins. The film presents three separate stories utilizing the same cast members and does so successfully thanks to superlative direction. This movie provides a nostalgic glimpse of cinema in an era when even provocative topics were treated innocently. Not only does the film create for the viewer a window on the world of European life in the waning decades of the Middle Ages, it also serves as an excellent example of moviemaking and all of its' colorful legacy and inherent challenges in the middle of the 20th century.

the story was good. it kept me thinking what was going to happen next. the actors were good and believable. picture quality of this dvd is good as well.

What a wonderful classic movie to find on dvd! It seems to be an edited for television version, but great all the same...(you can tell where the commercials came in). They just don't show enjoyable old movies like this on tv any more. A Louis Jourdan gem with a very young Joan Collins in it!