A Tale of Five Women

Original title: A Tale of Five Cities

1951
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1h 26m

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1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss... Read all1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory.1951. Drama. Stars, Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Eva Bartok, and Gina Lollobrigida. When an Englishman leaves America to enlist in the RAF, his grueling combat experiences result in a loss of memory.

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Due to several interruptions, filming took nearly two years.

Crazy credits
The opening credits are listed in Promenade Magazine (15 cents) with the cover featuring a large photographed face of Bonar Colleano over which are are four faces of women. The pages are individually turned by a hand, culminating in the start of the story below, which at the same time is spoken over by Bonar Colleano.

"I used to laugh . . . at those people who made a practice of reading the last chapter of a book before they start the beginning. I laughed at myself, however, when I started writing this story for Promenade, because I didn't know what the beginning was until I'd found out the end!

Sounds a bit screwy! Well, I guess I WAS kind of screwy then. However, in the end, I found out the beginning.

It all started in Occupied Germany in the Winter of 1945 . . . I was a bit "lit-up" and on my way back to my quarters . . .

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Edited into Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)

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4/10

The only good thing is the scenery

Bob Mitchell (Bonar Colleano) is an English man who speaks with an American accent. He's a world-traveling circus acrobat, but after falling off a chandelier in a German bar, he suffers amnesia. He is assumed to be an American. They find clues to his identities with five bank notes from five European countries, each with a different girl's name plus a picture of a baby. Lesley (Barbara Kelly) from a magazine proposes to send him to all five countries in order to find his past. The movie has five local shoots of Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. Each one is shot with a different crew including different directors and writers.

The setup is terribly clunky and just an excuse to get Bob to 5 different cities. I do notice that the movie genre is listed as Drama, Mystery, Romance, and War. It's missing Comedy. I think they do try to make a comedy. Of course, they fail badly. Maybe that's why nobody included Comedy as the genre. Bonar Colleano is very wooden and lack the comedic skills. About the only thing that is interesting is the scenery of post War Europe.