Product Details

• Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti, Lino Mattera
• Directors: Vittorio De Sica
• Writers: Alberto Moravia, Bella Billa, Cesare Zavattini, Eduardo De Filippo, Isabella Quarantotti
• Producers: Carlo Ponti
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
• VHS Release Date: April 30, 2002
• Run Time: 119 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304501978
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,798 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Vittorio De Sica's delightful anthology comedy from 1963 pairs joined-at-the-hip costars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in three funny stories about sex. The first finds Loren playing an impoverished woman with a jail sentence hanging over her head. A unique loophole in the law, however, keeps her out from behind bars: pregnant women and new mothers cannot be incarcerated. Forestalling her date with the pokey, this incredibly fecund felon keeps bearing children. Her lucky but exhausted accomplice is played by Mastroianni, who can't resist her siren call between deliveries. The middle vignette finds the two actors playing secretive lovers having an affair. Shot mostly from within and around his car, the pair self-consciously quibbles and keeps having comic mishaps that slow their progress. The last story is the cheekiest, featuring Loren as an expensive hooker whose date with a--shall we say "anxious"--Mastroianni is repeatedly broken up by a neighboring seminarian whose commitment to chastity has been rocked since seeing her. This tale includes Loren's famous striptease, the one Robert Altman sweetly parodied in Ready to Wear. --Tom Keogh

Mondo-Digital.com

"Simply delectable. De Sica's scope opus finally looks like its creators intended with NoShame's beautifully restored DVD presentation."

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Customer Reviews

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122 of 127 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Confuse this great DVD with Terrible Past Transfers, March 28, 2005

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M. Weisman (Ventura County, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow (Remastered Edition) (DVD)

Most of the Amazon reviews linked to this new Region 1 DVD from NoShame films refer to the awful bootleg versions that have been previously available. Ignore them!

This DVD is gorgeous - with a beautiful 16x9 Widescreen (2.35:1) high definition transfer. There is an Italian track with optional English subtitles. There is also the option to choose the English dubbed track if you want to.

NoShame is also releasing a pristine version of the Fellini/Visconti/DeSica multi-part comedy Boccaccio '70 completely uncut for the first time ever in the U.S. The long missing Mario Monicelli segment has finally been restored as well!

56 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DUBBED!!, January 15, 1999

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A. Corey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yesterday Today & Tomorrow/Two Women [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I bought this because it looked like a good deal but I had no way of knowing that it was dubbed. I had originally seen both films in Italian with subtitles...and both truly are wonderful films (Sophia won Best Actress for Two Women). If they only included the information (dubbed or subtitled) I would have been able to make an informed decision instead of taking a shot in the dark. Obviously, I'm not happy with the dubbed version. Oh, and also, the quality of the video is less than great.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Reborn, April 12, 2005

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Gerry M. Allen (Medford, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow (Remastered Edition) (DVD)

Ignore the reviews of the bootleg DVD; this new digital transfer from the internegative is lush and clean. There is both a subtitled Italian audio track and a English dubbed version. No comment is needed about the film; time has proved its value.
Please view this extraordinary picture and compare it to modern sex comedies; you might conclude that we haven't advanced the art of film over this wonderful production. Buy, enjoy and spread the word.