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Girl in the Window (1961)

A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.

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Top billed cast

Lino VenturaFederico
Magali NoëlChanel
Marina VladyElse
Bernard FressonVincenzo
Antonio Badas
Roger Bernard
Ingeborg Jonassen
Salvatore Lombardo
Giulio Mancini
Peter Faber

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