Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan have four roles in this compilation of risqué tales by the 14th-century writer Boccaccio. Binnie Barnes, Joan Collins, Godfrey Tearle. Handsomely mounted but uneven in quality. Directed by Hugo Fregonese., Director Hugo Fregonese and writer George Oppenheimer do the unthinkable: they manage to transform Giovanni Boccaccio’s bawdy — and downright raunchy — medieval tales of martial discontent and infidelity into harmless white-bread treacle. Louis Jourdan plays Boccaccio in a framing story set in a villa in the Florentine hills. With a widowed woman and her sex-starved female wards hungrily hunched over listening to his every word, Boccaccio spins three tales of illicit romance involving a trio of medieval husbands and wives. All three tales feature Jourdan as the romantic male lead and Joan Fontaine — spruced up in a collection of bright costumes — as the misunderstood and mistreated women of the tales. The first story concerns the bored housewife, of a middle-aged husband, who willingly jumps into the arms of a roustabout. The second tale tells the story of a husband who is highly suspicious of his wife’s fidelity and the wife’s circumspect way of proving her virtue to her husband. The third story is an ineffectual lark about a wife who fools her indifferent husband into demonstrating his proper marital role. Boccaccio had to wait for Pier Pasolini in order to get the spirit of his Decameron right.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Decameron Nights ” ?
A: The main cast includes Joan Fontaine,Louis Jourdan,Binnie Barnes,Joan Collins,Mara Lane,Stella Riley,Melissa Stribling,Godfrey Tearle,Eliot Makeham,Meinhart Maur,Van Boolen,Gordon Bell,Bert Bernard,Noel Purcell,Hugh Morton,Marjorie Rhodes,Guy Green,Russell Lloyd,George Oppenheimer.
Q: When Did the “Decameron Nights” Released?
A: The Movie “Decameron Nights” originally aired on 1953-01-13 and released in the year of 1953.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Decameron Nights” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Decameron Nights” ?
A: “Decameron Nights” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
