Mario (Tino Rossi) is a crooner who works the tables at a Naples pavement café. He loves Assunta (Mireille Balin) and they plan to marry, but all that changes when Lolita the man-eater (Viviane Romance) shows up and gets her claws into him.
There's not much substance to this Tino Rossi vehicle, but Rossi sings sweetly, Viviane Romance has never been sexier, and there are comic turns from Michel Simon (who sings) and Marcel Dalio (who doesn't). Mireille Balin (Rossi's lover in real life at the time) is sublime as ever, but has little to do in this movie other than look petulant as her rivals circle around her fiancé. Rossi, a limited actor, essentially plays himself here.
Shooting was done partly on location in Naples (during a heatwave), and the local flavour adds some interest to Augusto Genina's otherwise flat direction. Genina went on to make Fascist propaganda films for Mussolini.
There's not much substance to this Tino Rossi vehicle, but Rossi sings sweetly, Viviane Romance has never been sexier, and there are comic turns from Michel Simon (who sings) and Marcel Dalio (who doesn't). Mireille Balin (Rossi's lover in real life at the time) is sublime as ever, but has little to do in this movie other than look petulant as her rivals circle around her fiancé. Rossi, a limited actor, essentially plays himself here.
Shooting was done partly on location in Naples (during a heatwave), and the local flavour adds some interest to Augusto Genina's otherwise flat direction. Genina went on to make Fascist propaganda films for Mussolini.