Maureen O'Hara -- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita # 02

[@mnorth1964]

I saw this magical movie as a child. Have never seen it since but will one day own a copy. Thanks for posting what was an incredible memory for me. Such happy times.

[@mariaperezpitti7643]

I read the novel and watched the movie afterwards.Maureen O'Hara is so brilliant as usual.

[@tamarralee3179]

I wished they had stayed together. I am trying to find this on dvd. Thank you for posting this.

[@sternumagnum]

I was no more than 10-11 years old when I saw it and right away had a huge crush on Olivia Hussey!.. :-)

[@JeffAvants]

sternumagnum You and me, and I am sure thousands of other young boys!

[@mariaperezpitti7643]

It was miss Hussey's opera prima.

[@Texasjim2007]

Same. I suspect Dennis the Menace's Italian girlfriend who started appearing in the comics shortly after this film was partly based on Olivia Hussey in this film having a very similar appearance.

[@obscurelyvague]

Maureen O'Hara was right that the plot is complicated. Since I learned how to use the internet, I have been looking for old movies that I saw decades ago but never heard of again. If it were not for the internet, I would not know how to find information about movies such as this one. However there is only minimal information about The Battle of The Villa Fiorita . I guess I am lucky to have found what little I did find. The only other option would be to go to some kind of archive place for movies. But unless it is in a library the average person probably has no access to such a department which is probably in a movie company's warehouses or something like that. My understanding now is that the three child characters all wanted to bring back their mother to their father ( whom their mother had left to have an affair with another man). When I as a kid I think I faintly understood that the man was a boyfriend to the O'Hara's character, but I did not understand that the children wanted to bring their mother back to their real father. It seemed that the kids had angry feelings for their mother's lover at times, but it did not seem that that was the main point. It seemed that the two girls were at conflict with each other because that is what young girls do. I was never sure if the boy was the brother, or some friend or maybe cousin of the two girls.. I would like to see this movie in it's entirety now that I am grown so as to have a better understanding of what I was unable to understand when I was very young.

[@Texasjim2007]

The plot is basically that Maureen O'hara is an Englishwoman who leaves her husband and two children and runs away to Italy with her Italian pianist lover Rossano Brazzi. Her son and daughter without their father's knowledge go to bring their mother back to their father and team up with the lover's daughter by his late wife (played by "Romeo and Juliet" star Olivia Hussey in her first film role) who also wants to break up the love affair so her father won't go to Hell for adultery. The two girls decide to go on a hunger strike until the extra-marital affair is ended. The adults become increasing frustrated by this and start arguing, especially after Brazzi gives Olivia a spanking for refusing to eat and threatens to do the same to Maureen's daughter. The kids win in the end of course and Maureen goes back to her English husband with her kids. There are several places you can stream it online.

[@susietowers7331]

This used to be a Sunday afternoon tv movie. I really identified with the kids. Kid Power!

[@spinelessdisc2]

me too, I saw it in 1973 what a great movie.

[@toddbates444]

i am a man, and i think rossano brazzi is absolutley gorgeous! he would be 101 here in 2017

[@veronikaioannou8233]

Villa fiorita, assisti 3 vezes, e quero assistir mais🇧🇷

[@DianeHosler-hh1mv]

This movie was set on Lake garda, Italy in the towns of Torre del Benaco using the castle and Sirmione on the peninsula. If you liked this film done in 1965 then try SUMMERTIME with Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi again set in Venice in 1955. As beautiful as this and fabulous music.

[@kathysansbury8656]

Thought rossano brazzi was a dream I must of been in my early teens😘

[@punstress]

I agree, more more more of this movie!

[@obscurelyvague]

I remember seeing this movie maybe twice but I don't exactly recall when in my life, very roughly when I was about 9 and then when I was about 12. I never understood it completely. I could only understand the viewpoint of the child characters. Actually the boy seemed to be in his teens while the girls seemed a few years younger. Also I did not recall what happened in the movie after two of the children went on a boat and then had to be rescued (at least that is what I recall of the later part of the plot).

[@Darksideadept]

Maureen said she didn't like this movie very much, the script was very complicated.

[@Laddie327]

Maureen O’Hara also said Brazzi got on her nerves because all he talked about was his extra-marital affairs and female conquests.

[@Darksideadept]

@@Laddie327 but he did have nice dogs lol

[@pix046]

Is there a scene in The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent?

[@LynnJepson]

It is.

[@FayeChan01]

it was good she should of liked it

[@nancypatterson3]

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