A character in this film observes that in-breeding between cousins produced "monkeys ready to clamber up the chandelier" upon watching young girls jumping up and down on a bed. During a chaotic battle sequence in this film, filled with bomb craters and destroyed buildings, a group of women in the slums capture a man wearing a sash and top hat, and hang him. The protagonist of this film skulks off to a room where the portrait of an old man on his deathbed moves him to consider his own mortality, when he is asked to dance by a woman who had just made her society debut at an extended ballroom sequence that takes up 45 minutes of screen time. This film engendered controv
A character in this film observes that in-breeding between cousins produced "monkeys ready to clamber up the chandelier" upon watching young girls jumping up and down on a bed. During a chaotic battle sequence in this film, filled with bomb craters and destroyed buildings, a group of women in the slums capture a man wearing a sash and top hat, and hang him. The protagonist of this film skulks off to a room where the portrait of an old man on his deathbed moves him to consider his own mortality, when he is asked to dance by a woman who had just made her society debut at an extended ballroom sequence that takes up 45 minutes of screen time. This film engendered controversy with its choice of the foreign-born (*) Burt Lancaster to play the lead role opposite Claudia Cardinale as Angelica Sedara. In this film, the elderly Prince of Salina, Don Fabrizio, worries about irrelevancy in the fast-moving political landscape of the Risorgimento. For 10 points, name this 1963 Luchino Visconti film, an adaptation of a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
A character in this film observes that in-breeding between cousins produced "monkeys ready to clamber up the chandelier" upon watching young girls jumping up and down on a bed.