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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

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Rated: Unrated; Genre: Comedy; With: Gina Lollobrigida and Shelley Winters

B-

By Steve Daly

Steve Daly

Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters (1968, MGM/UA, wide-screen, unrated, $34.98) If it were out on tape (where wide-screen films are usually recropped), this sitcom-coy farce about a reunion that brings three World War II servicemen (Telly Savalas, Peter Lawford, and Phil Silvers) back to an Italian town would certainly suffer in the translation: It has wide-screen imagery that spreads four and five arguing spouses across the frame at once. But on disc, as the now-married men discover that nobody knows which of them really fathered a daughter 20 years ago by villager Mrs. Campbell (Lollobrigida), the letterboxing makes all the door-slamming choreography easy to follow. A silly dance in the end, but at least all the steps are here. B- -SD

Posted Jun 25, 1993

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