Napoli piange e ride

Napoli piange e ride (i. e. "Naples cries and laughs") is a 1954 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma .

When the master Blasi, a well-known Don Giovanni, discovers that Marisa, Luciano's wife, has a beautiful voice and gets her a profitable contract, the watchmaker, suspecting an affair, is saddened by it.

Piero, the fiancé of Luciano's sister, rushes in and in a fit of generosity, to save Marisa, pleads guilty to the killing.

Luciano, as he hurries home, falls from his wheelchair and suffers a serious trauma and is at risk of becoming blind.

Marisa, although cleared of all charges, feels unworthy to return to her husband, but after some time, Luciano is reunited with his wife.