Anyone Can Play
Cast & Crew
Luigi Zampa
Ursula Andress
Virna Lisi
Claudine Auger
Marisa Mell
Brett Halsey
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Esmeralda, left alone after her husband's departure on business, decides to avoid the temptation offered by one of his employees, a handsome accountant, by visiting three college friends who are organizing a charity party in Rome. Although all of the friends have married well to attractive men, they experience feelings of restlessness. Luisa, who has succumbed to extramarital temptations, is being blackmailed by a gang of extortionists who have recorded her in an encounter in the back seat of an automobile. After trying unsuccessfully to help the extortionists rob the charity party's receipts, Luisa resigns herself to suffering the consequences of her infidelity. However, when her husband accidentally hears the tape he believes that one of his own lapses has been recorded and falls prey to the blackmailers himself. Luisa meets another lover and hands him a card on which she has written, "Do what you want but don't talk." Norma has recurring nightmares in which she is sexually assaulted by a huge, moustached stranger. Following the advice of her psychiatrist, she has an affair with a traffic policeman who resembles the man in her dreams. As her dreams persist, however, she resorts to seducing other men who resemble the phantom brute, and she encounters a squad of moustached policemen. Paola, normally shy, performs a striptease at the charity party and creates a sensation. Her husband, a public servant, is forced to give up his job, and he becomes his wife's manager and straight man as she turns professional. Esmeralda returns home to consummate the affair with the accountant, but she is relieved when her husband's arrival forestalls her indiscretion. Her fidelity is short-lived, however: her husband announces that he has more work to do and insists that she attend the races at Monte Carlo with the accountant.
Director
Luigi Zampa
Cast
Ursula Andress
Virna Lisi
Claudine Auger
Marisa Mell
Brett Halsey
Jean-pierre Cassel
Frank Wolff
Marco Guglielmi
Vittorio Caprioli
Franco Fabrizi
Luciano Salce
Lando Buzzanca
Pietro Morfea
Mario Adorf
Fred Williams
Luis Valenzano Aloisi
Margherita Guzzinati
Lia Zoppelli
Stash De Rola
Arthur Hansell
Crew
Nino Baragli
Jole Cecchini
Maurizio Chiari
Maurizio Chiari
Velio Cioni
Amilcare Cuccoli
Romano Dandi
Don Carlos Dunaway
Mimmola Girosi
Ennio Guarnieri
Gianni Hecht Lucari
Nilo Jacoponi
Gino Landi
Ruggero Maccari
Mario Milani
Audrey Nohra
John O'gorman
Alvaro Orsini
Fernando Pescetelli
Ennio Picconi
Joe Pollini
Egidio Quarantotto
Sergio Salvati
Fausto Saraceni
Ettore Scola
Stefano Strucchi
Armando Trovajoli
Armando Trovajoli
Arturo Zavattini
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Released in Italy in 1967 as Le dolci signore; running time: 110 min. Some sources omit Stefano Strucchi from screenplay credit.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall September 1968
Released in United States Fall September 1968
