Lady Liberty Reviews

Another Italian comedy import with about as much plot as a bowl of spaghetti. Loren arrives in the U.S. to see her fiance, Proietti, carrying a large Mortadella sausage from her hometown of Bologna as a gift for him. When U.S. customs officials forbid Loren to bring the sausage into the country, she explodes and almost causes an international incident. Devane, a New York reporter, hears about Loren's fight for her rights and decides to exploit the story for his newspaper. Meanwhile, Loren befriends meek-mannered customs official Carroll and together they eat the sausage. When Devane's story breaks, Loren is further enraged, though she is now free to enter the country. She visits fiance Proietti, to find that he has been embarrassed by her actions, and she flees to Carroll but soon leaves him upon discovering that he's a mama's boy. Next she goes to Devane and spends the night with him. Proietti appears, full of conciliation, telling Loren that her stand on the sausage has caused business at his restaurant to boom and he now asks her to marry her. She sneers at his opportunism, then rejects Devane too upon learning he has a wife and children. She is last seen making her way through Manhattan, looking for a decent man.