This movie takes place in post-war Japan, where Peg Blain and daughter Debby join Peg’s commanding-officer husband Jack. After the local Japanese wives see how independent and self-reliant Peg and Debby are, they demand to have the same respect, rights and privileges as them. At a military Christmas party, the situation gets brought up and resolved.
Category: Comedy
A stylish and attractive burglar, Bob, meets and fascinates two bickering paupers, Monique and Antoine. They are quickly inveigled into Bob’s exciting world, and first the wife and then the husband come to depend on him. The burglar at the same time has developed a crush on the husband. After hilarious resistance, eventually Antoine gives way and the true Menage begins…
Juan and Carmen are a humble marriage from Madrid. She takes care of domestic chores and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when the two win a contest sponsored by a soap brand. It is the choice of “the happy couple”: for 24 hours the selected couple receives all kinds of invitations and gifts. But, precisely on the same day, Juan must solve two serious problems that Carmen does not know about.
A con man gives a lemon candy to a paralyzed millionaire, assuring that it will cure him, and convinces him to give him a hundred dollars to bet on a horse. Wally knows that the horse can not win, but he bets on it anyway and his partner runs away with the money. Wally marries and has a son, but the woman dies during childbirth. His partner appears, who has married his lifelong girlfriend, and offers to take care of the child, but also the millionaire reappears, who has cured his ailment. Life changes for Wally.
Cornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a chance-met, kindly bootlegger. Much of the humor derives from pre-Roaring Twenties naivity.
Luca is a man who runs a mill and he is married to Carmela, a beautiful wife, set in Naples in 1860. But his wife’s beauty catches the eye of Don Teofilo the Governor, who sets about to have Carmela. He has Luca arrested on trumped up charges, and then tries seduce Carmella. She resists, so he tells her he can free Luca, but there are strings attached.
In Rome’s storied marketplace, Campo de’ fiore, vegetable peddler Elide argues constantly with fishmonger Peppino , refusing to admit her deep, hidden affection for him. Elide’s reticence is put to the test, however, when Peppino finds himself smitten by the beautiful young Elsa.