Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty is a 1972 French-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Susan Sarandon and Danny DeVito. Maddalena Ciarrapico arrives in New York City from Italy to get married and bringing with her a gift of mortadella from her co-workers from the sausage factory where she used to work, for her fiancee. But she is refused permission to bring the mortadella into the country because of the ban on meat that may contain food-borne diseases. An indignant Maddalena refuses to hand the sausage over, staying in the customs office at... the airport, sparking a diplomatic incident in which she attracts widespread sympathy and support. The New York Times was scathing of the film observing "Probably no other woman has so triumphantly survived as many rotten movies in such a short space of time as Sophia Loren". Although "the farcical premise is promising" it was "a comedy that manages to be both too serious and not serious enough and that, at no point matches the level of the humor and intelligence of its principal performance".
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