Welcome, Reverend!
| Benvenuto, reverendo! | |
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| Directed by | Aldo Fabrizi |
| Produced by | Aldo Fabrizi |
| Written by | Aldo Fabrizi, Piero Tellini (screenplay) |
| Starring | Aldo Fabrizi |
| Music by | Carlo Innocenzi |
| Cinematography | Aldo Giordani |
| Distributed by | Alfa Films XXXVII, Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche (ENIC) |
| Release dates | February 15, 1950 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Benvenuto, reverendo! or Welcome Reverend is a 1950 Italian crime film comedy directed, written by and starring Aldo Fabrizi. It co-stars Massimo Girotti and Lianella Carell.
Plot
Giuseppe (Massimo Girotti), an ex-convict meets with a village priest Don Peppino (Aldo Fabrizi) with a letter requesting that he is given a job but the man happens to be so ill that he cannot help him. Over time, starving and in a desperate state, Giuseppe steals a hundred lira from the church and flees in the robes of the cleric. Outside he is confronted by police officer who, in mistaking him for the village priest requests that he comes to the aid of a local rich landlord whose farmers are on strike and threaten to take over the land. If he is able to settle the conflict then as an award the church will be granted a large sum of money to revamp the old church. Imposing as the priest Don Peppino, Giuseppe decides to see if he can squander the money by fulfilling the task.
Cast
- Aldo Fabrizi as Don Peppino
- Lianella Carell as Anna
- Massimo Girotti
- Gabriele Ferzetti
- Giovanni Grasso
- Mario Mazza
- Virginia Balestrieri
- Pitto as The child (as il piccolo Pitto)
- Ada Colangeli
- Franco Fava
- Lia Grani
- Marianne Hold
- Alfredo Leggi
- Amerigo Santarelli
- Carlo Titta
- Raimondo Van Riel