It Started in Naples (1960)

Sophia Loren: Lucia Curcio

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• Lucia Curcio : [Speaking of Joe's investment in fireworks]  In Italy, they are a good business. On every saint's day, there are fireworks. And what day is not a saint's day?

• Lucia Curcio : Your lawyer is a pig. It's not a nice job pushing a poor, innocent girl into the arms of an American to save someone she loves. And now he will use this against me. Taking away from me all that is left of my family.

• Mario Vitale : I am a lawyer.

  Lucia Curcio : You're a pig.

  Mario Vitale : A man can be a lawyer and a pig at the same time. It happens often.

• Lucia Curcio : [Talking to neighbors on balconies]  Oh, it's nothing. The American - he wants to kidnap Nando and take him from Capri. For what purpose I don't know.

  Renzo : [Yelling to Mike from a balcony]  Why don't you get out of the Middle East? All you want is oil, oil, oil.

• Mario Vitale : Please, be so kind as to go away. It is not proper for me to be seen with my opponent.

  Lucia Curcio : You call yourself an Italian, and you plot with an American to take a child away.

• Nando Hamilton : He no can take me away, huh?

  Lucia Curcio : [Hugging him]  No, never...... Light a candle to the Madonna. I think I'm getting to him.

• Michael Hamilton : [Opening his billfold]  All right. I knew we'd get down to this.

  Lucia Curcio : Oh, there are some things the American dollar cannot buy, Mr. Hamilton. Not many, but some.

• Lucia Curcio : [Sending a hesitant Nando to school]  Go to school... Ask someone where it is.

• Mario Vitale : Mr. Hamilton has a great affection for you. He has told me. You have my word of honor.

  Lucia Curcio : The word of honor of a pig.

  Mario Vitale : But a lawyer.

• Lucia Curcio : If one must die, I, too, would choose the Bay of Naples on autumn night.

• Lucia Curcio : But you see, he got a passion for them, you understand? He did nothing but shoot off fireworks for his own amusement.

  Nando Hamilton : And I would help. Beautiful!

  Lucia Curcio : So beautiful, no one could afford to buy them. He was an artist.

  Michael Hamilton : Mmm, in spades. Well, so much for the money.

• Luigi : Take the money.

  Lucia Curcio : Well, if you insist,.. uno, due, tre... and I'll pay it back.

  Luigi : In heaven!

  Lucia Curcio : Eat! Eat!

• Michael Hamilton : Now, I'd like to know what happened to all that money. And, as a representative of his heirs, I'd...

  Lucia Curcio : You would like to collect the snakes, and the Golden Rim and the Rain of the Stars...

  [Names of fireworks] 

  Michael Hamilton : What?

  Lucia Curcio : And the double catering wheel... .Didn't you know? The money you sent your brother - he invested it in, um, fuochi d'artificio... . fireworks.

  Michael Hamilton : Fireworks?

  Lucia Curcio : Mm hm, fireworks!

• Lucia Curcio : [Speaking to Mario Vitale]  But who can speak to you? You're not Neapolitan. You have no soul. You have sold yourself to America.

  [She goes away crying] 

  Luigi : [to Vitale]  Pig!

  Michael Hamilton : I've forgotten. Who won the Academy award this year?