Lady Liberty (film)
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| Directed by | Mario Monicelli |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
| Written by |
Leonard Melfi Suso Cecchi D'Amico Don Carlos Dunaway Ring Lardner, Jr. (uncredited) |
| Starring |
Sophia Loren William Devane Gigi Proietti Susan Sarandon Danny DeVito |
| Music by | Ron-Lucio Dalla |
| Cinematography | Alfio Contini |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Release date
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December 23, 1971 (Italy) June 7, 1972 (USA) |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | English |
December 23, 1971 (Italy)
Lady Liberty (Italian: La mortadella) is a 1971 Italian-French comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito and Edward Herrmann in his film debut.
Maddalena Ciarrapico arrives in New York City from Italy to get married and bringing with her a gift of mortadella (large Italian pork sausage) from her co-workers from the sausage factory where she used to work, for her fiancé. But she is refused permission to bring the mortadella into the country because of the ban on meat that may contain food-borne diseases. An indignant Maddalena refuses to hand the sausage over, staying in the customs office at the airport, sparking a diplomatic incident in which she attracts widespread sympathy and support.
The New York Times was scathing of the film, observing "Probably no other woman has so triumphantly survived as many rotten movies in such a short space of time as Sophia Loren". Although "the farcical premise is promising" it was "a comedy that manages to be both too serious and not serious enough and that, at no point matches the level of the humor and intelligence of its principal performance". It also questioned "the grindingly bleak New York settings in which so much of the film is set."
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