haven't seen it since '71
Looking forward to the disc from NetFlix. I have a great aural memory of the beautiful background music. Mozart? I'd appreciate hearing exactly which opera was played.
thanks
The title loosely translates to something along the lines of 'all women do that' or 'all women are like that'.
It's about two soldiers who enter a wager with a local grandee, who tricks their fiancées into thinking they've gone to war... but the men's real plan is to woo each other's wife-to-be in disguise, so to prove the capricious nature of women. The girls are eventually persuaded, with the help of their servant (who is complicit in the charade), to break the engagements with their supposedly absent fiancés to marry the men, and the plot unfolds with melodramatic inevitability.
We're left to decide for ourselves why that might be an appropriate score for this film... aside from the fact that it's a wonderful piece of music, of course.
There sit the sainted sage, in dey khaki suit an ting.