Village of Daughters

A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.

Cast

Eric Sykes

as Herbert Harris

Scilla Gabel

as Angelina Vimereati

Grégoire Aslan

as Gastoni (A Father) (as Gregoire Aslan)

Yvonne Romain

as Annunziata (A Daughter)

John Le Mesurier

as Don Calogere

Eric Pohlmann

as Marcio (A Father)

Warren Mitchell

as Puccelli (A Father)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Hmmm! This is really just a rather tacky and contrived vehicle for British comic Eric Sykes ("Harris"). He is a traveling salesman who finds himself - somehow - in a remote Italian village where he is all of a sudden flavour of the month. How come? Well it seems that all of their menfolk have gone o...

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