Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
- Lauren Young
- (as Marian Moses)
- Mamma Cappullino
- (uncredited)
- Hotel Concierge
- (uncredited)
- International Express Office Client
- (uncredited)
- Man at Reunion Party
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaMrs. Campbell's red sports car is a Fiat 1500 Cabrio. Gia's car is a Renault Caravelle. Each taxicab is a Fiat 600 Multipla.
- GoofsThe three men are said to have contributed average monthly payments of $85 (Walter), $115 (Phil), and $140 (Justin). While the actual number of years is not completely clear, Justin assumes 20 years. He states cumulative total payments the men paid to Carla, "over 20 years, compounded at 6% interest, would come to $197,000." They also say that Walter paid $41,000 and Phil $47,000 over that period.
None of the calculated figures are correct. Assuming that the monthly averages are correct, as listed above, then the annual/lifetime contributions are $1,020/$20,400 (Walter); $1,380/$27,600 (Phil); and $1,680/$33,600 (Justin) for a total of $81,600.
Justin goes further in calculating accrued interest. He cites an annual figure of 6%. While this would have been approximately correct at the time of filming, it did not represent the previous 20 years. An average interest rate for 1948-1968 is ~3.28%.
At 3.28% the invested total for each man's contribution is $28,737 (Walter), $38,880 (Phil), and $47,332 (Justin). For a total of $114,950. This is significantly less than Justin's $197,000 figure (which is too high even at 6%, which would have been $157,000). [Note that $114,950 in 1968 has an inflation adjusted value of $949,600 in 2022.]
However, these are all theoretical. Presumably Carla used their money to buy the winery and that's where she made her money.
- Quotes
Justin Young: [Tallying up the amount of money they've collectively sent to Mrs. Campbell over the years] You averaged eighty-five a month, you, a hundred and fifteen, me, a hundred a forty... which, over twenty years, compounded at six percent interest, would come to a hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars.
Walter Braddock: [incredulous] A hundred and ninety seven *thousand*?... We paid more war damages than Germany!
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- SoundtracksSan Forino March
Music by Andrew Frank
Lyrics by Andrew Frank
[Sung by the people on the bus on their way to San Forino]
Lollobrigida plays Carla Campbell, a widow who supposedly lost her husband during WWII. She lives in the South of Italy and provides for her daughter Gia (Janet Margolin) all by herself. It's all fine until a group of soldiers who fought in Italy during the war returns for a reunion and the truth is slowly unveiled: there is no Mr. Campbell, Carla having made him up since she slept with three different men (Telly Savalas, Phil Silvers and Peter Lawford) and doesn't know which of them is Gia's father. To complicate things even more, she told all three of them the girl is their daughter. In other words: mix-ups and misunderstandings are inevitable.
The story is extremely simple and a very good premise for a comedy, so good no one has ever tried to remake it (well, if you don't count the ABBA musical Mamma Mia!, which has a similar plot). Then again, it might be hard to pull off something like it nowadays (unless the setting was some place where paternity tests don't exist) - its look on adultery isn't exactly PC (and yet it was released while the Hays Code was still functional). Still, the gags come sharp and fast, particularly when Savalas and Silvers are on screen, and Lollobrigida is, as ever, a beauty to watch and hear. Margolin isn't bad either, whereas Lawford's subdued performance doesn't really sit well with the quick wit and great physical comedy delivered by his two rivals. But that's a minor flaw in a film that doesn't show up very often, but when it does, it truly is worth catching. Where else are you going to hear Lollobrigida explain that she called herself Campbell, like a soup brand, because the only other American name she knew was Coca-Cola?
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- Dobro vece, gospodjo Kempbel
- Filming locations
- Ariccia, Rome, Lazio, Italy(town of 'San Forino')
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $7,379
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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