Golden Madonna

Golden Madonna (Italian: La madonnina d'oro) is a 1949 British-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Carpentieri[1] and Ladislao Vajda and starring Phyllis Calvert, Tullio Carminati and Michael Rennie.[2][3] It was considered a lost film and was on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list, until a copy was loaned to the British Film Institute by Cohen Media.[4][5] Filmed on location, a group of original negatives and contact prints[6] taken by Francis Goodman are in the possession of London's National Portrait Gallery.

Golden Madonna
Italian theatrical poster
Directed byLuigi Carpentieri
Ladislao Vajda
Produced bySaverio D'Amico
John Stafford
Written byDudley Leslie
Aimée Stuart
Screenplay byÁkos Tolnay
Story byDorothy Hope
StarringPhyllis Calvert
Tullio Carminati
Michael Rennie
Music byFernando Ludovico Lunghi
CinematographyAnchise Brizzi
Otello Martelli
Edited byCarmen Belaieff
Production
company
Pendennis Productions
Produttore Films Internazionali
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • 1949 (1949) (Italy)
  • April 1949 (1949-04) (UK)
  • 15 September 1949 (1949-09-15) (US)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryItaly
United Kingdom
LanguageItalian
English

The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini.

Plot

A young British woman, a former schoolteacher, inherits an estate in rural Italy. Soon after she arrives she offends the village she lives in by accidentally throwing away a sacred painting of the Madonna that they consider lucky and protector of the community. To redeem herself she goes out in search to try to recover it with the assistance of a British ex-army Captain. In Naples she is first cheated by a British Spiv and his gang of street boys, then receives their help to steal back the painting from a wealthy collector who has taken the Madonna to his villa on Capri.

Cast

References
  1. "La Madonnina d'oro". Cinematografo.it. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. "Golden Madonna". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. "The Golden Madonna (1949) - Ladislao Vajda - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  4. http://www.bfi.org.uk/explore-film-tv/bfi-national-archive/archive-projects/bfi-most-wanted. Retrieved 28 November 2017. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Golden Madonna / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  6. "Golden Madonna contact prints in the National Portrait Gallery". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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