Golden Madonna (Italian: La madonnina d'oro) is a 1949 British-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Carpentieri[1] and Ladislao Vajda and starring Phyllis Calvert, Tullio Carminati and Michael Rennie.[2][3] It was considered a lost film and was on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list, until a copy was loaned to the British Film Institute by Cohen Media.[4][5] Filmed on location, a group of original negatives and contact prints[6] taken by Francis Goodman are in the possession of London's National Portrait Gallery.

Golden Madonna
Italian theatrical poster
Directed by	Luigi Carpentieri Ladislao Vajda
Written by	Dudley Leslie Aimée Stuart
Screenplay by	Ákos Tolnay
Story by	Dorothy Hope
Produced by	Saverio D'Amico John Stafford
Starring	Phyllis Calvert Tullio Carminati Michael Rennie
Cinematography	Anchise Brizzi Otello Martelli
Edited by	Carmen Belaieff
Music by	Fernando Ludovico Lunghi
Production companies	Pendennis Productions Produttore Films Internazionali
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release dates	1949 (1949) (Italy) April 1949 (1949-04) (UK) 15 September 1949 (1949-09-15) (US)
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	Italy United Kingdom
Languages	Italian English

The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini.

Plot

A young British woman, a former schoolteacher, inherits an estate in rural Italy. Soon after she arrives she offends the village she lives in by accidentally throwing away a sacred painting of the Madonna that they consider lucky and protector of the community. To redeem herself she goes out in search to try to recover it with the assistance of a British ex-army Captain. In Naples she is first cheated by a British Spiv and his gang of street boys, then receives their help to steal back the painting from a wealthy collector who has taken the Madonna to his villa on Capri.

Cast

• Phyllis Calvert as Patricia Chandler
• Tullio Carminati as Signor Migone
• Michael Rennie as Mike Christie
• David Greene as Johnny Lester
• Aldo Silvani as Don Vincenzo
• Pippo Bonucci as Pippo
• Francesca Biondi as Maria
• Franco Coop as Esposito
• Claudio Ermelli as Antonio

References

External links

• BFI 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes
• The Golden Madonna at IMDb
• The Golden Madonna at Variety Distribution
• Review of film at Variety
• Italian version

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