It's Never Too Late (Italian: Non è mai troppo tardi) is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Filippo Walter Ratti. The film is based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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Plot
Antonio Trabbi is a greedy old man with a very rough personality and obsessed by money. He deprecates charity and love and has no friends or love interest, being lonely and avoided by people. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, who warns him about his life-style and announces the visit of three spirits, who will show Antonio past, present and future Christmas days. During the night, the three spirits actually appear to Trabbi, showing him his sad past, the bad reputation he has with everyone and the bad outcome of his actions, which will lead him to a lonely death and to terrible punishments in Hell. When Trabbi wakes up he is greatly distressed by the visions and eager to change his life, starting with that very same Christmas Day.
Cast
Paolo Stoppa as Antonio Trabbi
Guglielmo Barnabò
Isa Barzizza as Rosanna Gennari
Luigi Batzella (as Gigi Batzella)
Sergio Bergonzelli
Lola Braccini as Antonio's mother
Arturo Bragaglia as L'omino
Enzo Cerusico as Antonio as child
Olinto Cristina as Franci
Giorgio De Lullo as The Strange Man in the Pub
Giulio Donnini as Orazio Colussi
Attilio Dottesio as The man who poses the riddle at the party
Leda Gloria as Anna Colussi
Susanne Lévesy as Giulia - Daniele's wife
Ellida Lorini as Rosanna as child
Marcello Mastroianni as Riccardo
Leonilde Montesi
Valeria Moriconi as Marta
Luisa Rivelli
Daniela Spallotta
Luigi Tosi as Daniele Trabbi