Decameron Nights (also known as Tres Historias De Amor) is a 1953 British-American anthology Technicolor film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan.
In the mid-fourteenth century, Boccaccio seeks his true love, the recently widowed Fiametta, and finds that she has fled Florence, plague-ridden and being sacked by an invading army, for a villa in the countryside with several female companions.
When he shows up, Fiametta does not want to invite him to stay, but her friends, bored and lacking male companionship, override her.
However, Giulio merely bribes the woman's maid Nerina into letting him hide in her mistress's bedchamber.
Later, while Ginevra sleeps, he steals her locket and cuts off a lock of her hair, noticing as he does so a birthmark on her shoulder.
A potential customer, the Sultan, becomes fascinated by Ginevra's pet talking parrot and agrees to buy the merchant's wares if he can also have the bird.
Spanish Don Bertrando is sent to fetch a female doctor, Isabella, for his master, the seriously ill King.
Dismayed, Bertrando agrees, but immediately after their wedding, he leaves her - having fulfilled his promise – and resumes his playboy ways.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Made by an Argentine born Hollywood director and an Anglo-American cast, and filmed on location in Spain and at Elstree Studios, this is the sort of hybrid international production of which experience has made one slightly mistrustful.
The idea of filming Boccaccio is strange enough, but the film, with an essentially twentieth-century script, takes on something of the air of a series of revue sketches; the Bernard brothers provide a pantomime act as a pair of soft-hearted executioners, Binnie Barnes comes on a in variety of strange disguises, and the two stars, scarcely disguised at all, perform with a dispiriting tattiness.