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Mambo

CastSilvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters
Year released1954
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Dancer Giovanna Masetti, narrating: "... Venice, the dream city... my dreams kept me young..." (0:06)

Giovanna’s father tells her suitor, croupier Mario Rossi, "... with so many crazy ideas..." (0:11)

Giovanna tells Count Enrico Marisoni, "I never dreamed." 
”You’re a little mad.” 
Enrico: ”... She was insanely jealous.” 
Giovanna: ”You’re really insane.” (0:21)

Giovanna: "... I didn’t have the strength... not even to throw myself in the canal." 
Dance company manager Toni Salerno tells Giovanna, ”... You’re a fool...” (0:27)

Mario answers Giovanna, "Got drunk."
Mario smacks Giovanna’s face. (0:32)

Giovanna: "... I had dreamed of Rome..." (0:32)

Toni tells Giovanna, "... Your voice and your personality..." (0:34)

Giovanna: "... from my dreams of success or the habit of struggling..." (0:35)

Giovanna: "And so, with confused emotions I was returning to Venice..." (0:38)

Giovanna tells Mario, "... and then you hit me..." (0:50)

Mario tells Toni, "Only a fool fights for..." 
Toni: ”... I’m a fool...” (0:52)

Giovanna tells Toni, "Don’t you worry about my life. Worry about yours..." (0:54)

Giovanna and the others react to Toni’s apparent death after a car hits her. (0:56)

Enrico tells Giovanna, "Once I was a fool." (0:58)

Mario tells Giovanna, "You should have worried about that before." 
Giovanna: ”I told him he was mad...” 
Mario: ”Don’t worry...” (1:03)

Mario tells Giovanna, ”If you throw away this chance, you’re crazy.” 
Giovanna: ”You’re the one who’s crazy, Mario.” 
Mario: ”Yes, I’m crazy...” (1:07)

Giovanna: "... After my mother died..." (1:08)

Giovanna tells Enrico, "... as long as you behave like a child." 
Enrico: ”... I didn’t have the courage to...” 
”... I’m a coward...” (1:12)

Giovanna: "... Enrico was moody..." (1:14)

Enrico asks his mother Dona Louisa, "How dare you behave in this way?" 
”... I was drunk.” 
Mother: ”You’re a coward...” (1:14)

Mario asks Giovanna, "... You’re still worrying about that?..." (1:18)

Enrico tells Giovanna, "... His lonely heart has found at last his ecstasy..." (1:22)

Enrico tells Giovanna, "... We’re both strong enough now..." (1:23)

Giovanna, referring to Enrico, "... He was very proud..." 
Enrico: ”... You fool, you stupid fool...” (1:25)

A lawyer read Enrico’s will: "... being in possession of my physical and mental faculties..." (1:31)

Reference in Cinema Paradiso 

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