The Last Five Minutes

The Last Five Minutes (Italian: Gli ultimi cinque minuti) is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Amato and starring Linda Darnell, Vittorio De Sica and Peppino De Filippo.^[1] It is also known by the alternative title of It Happens in Roma.

The Last Five Minutes
Directed by	Giuseppe Amato
Written by	Oreste Biancoli Aldo De Benedetti
Produced by	Giuseppe Amato
Starring	Linda Darnell Vittorio De Sica Peppino De Filippo
Cinematography	Carlo Montuori
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Music by	Alessandro Cicognini
Production companies	Excelsa Film Omnium International du Film
Distributed by	Minerva Film
Release date	25 May 1955 (1955-05-25)
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	Italian

The film's art direction was by Guido Fiorini.

Plot

In the post-World War II Vittorio De Sica as Carlo Reani is looking for an apartment and finds the perfect one, but Linda Darnell as Renata Adorni is being shown the apartment at the same time. They both decide to obtain it but bump into each other with their realtors and a dispute begins as to who has a right to the apartment as Renata says it is hers as she has sent in a contract. They send their realtors racing to get it and bring their luggage back first, but they return at the same time. However Carlo proposes marriage to Renata and she accepts and they end up getting it together.

Cast

• Linda Darnell as Renata Adorni
• Vittorio De Sica as Carlo Reani
• Peppino De Filippo as Filippo Roberti
• Rossano Brazzi as Dino Moriani
• Nadia Gray as Valeria Roberti, moglie di Filippo
• Sophie Desmarets as La duchessa Isabella Camporese
• Pierre Cressoy as Dagoberto
• Elsa Merlini as Amica del pianista
• Gianrico Tedeschi as Il pianista
• Georges Bréhat as L'attore francese
• Memmo Carotenuto as Operaio dell'ascensore
• Henri Vidon as Un cardinale
• Nando Bruno as Il portiere
• Enrico Viarisio as Francesco, il maggiordomo
• Silvana Jachino as La cameriera
• Luigi Almirante as Segretario del cardinale
• Lise Bourdin