Decameron Nights [SEP] based on
Decameron Nights
Decameron Nights is a 1953 anthology Technicolor film based on three tales from "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, specifically the ninth and tenth tales of the second day and the ninth tale of the third. It stars Joan Fontaine and, as Boccaccio, Louis Jourdan.
Plot.
In the mid-fourteenth century, Boccaccio seeks his true love, the recently widowed Fiametta (Joan Fontaine), and finds that she has fled Florence, plague-ridden and being sacked by an invading army, for
Decameron Nights (1924 film)
Decameron Nights is a 1924 British-German silent drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke and Werner Krauss. It is based on the novel "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Cast.
- Lionel Barrymore as Saladin
- Ivy Duke as Perdita
- Werner Krauss as Soldan
- Bernhard Goetzke as Torello
- Randle Ayrton as Ricciardo
- Xenia Desni as Lady Teodora
- Jameson Thomas as Imliff
- Hanna Ralph as Lady Violante