The Overtaxed
The Overtaxed | |
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Directed by | Steno |
Produced by | C.E.I. |
Written by |
Aldo Fabrizi Roberto Gianviti Steno Vittorio Metz Ruggero Maccari |
Starring |
Totò Louis de Funès Aldo Fabrizi |
Music by | Piero Piccioni |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
Release dates |
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Running time | 105 minutes; 89 (France) |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
I Tartassati is an Italian comedy film from 1959, directed by Stefano Vanzina, written by Aldo Fabrizi, starring Totò and Louis de Funès. The film is known under the titles The Overtaxed (English) and Fripouillard et Compagnie (French).
Plot
Mr. Pezzella (Toto) owns and operates a very well established luxury clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant (Louis de Funès) to be able to evade more taxes. Unfortunately for the cavalier Pezzella the Guardia di Finanza decides to send an inspection, in the person of Marshal Topponi (Aldo Fabrizi) and Brigadier Bardi. They start attempts Pezzella (guided by the advice of dishonest and ineffective tax adviser) to get into dell'inossidabile marshal to try to bribe him, and sometimes openly declaring with excessive dose of servility. I will not clumsy attempts to marshal a few headaches, due to the intrusiveness and cialtroneria of Pezzella and then will backfire against those who had hatched. Topponi extends, finally, his survey report fiscal doom Pezzella to pay a huge fine. Not yet defeated, the knight decides Pezzella an extreme action, and adopt a ploy to steal the purse of the marshal with the report. But in the end, perhaps won by compassion for the troubles that the marshal would have disappeared because of the bag, and on the advice of a priest, Pezzella then returns the bag and return it. The Marshal and the rider can be found so after many vicissitudes friends and even-laws: in fact, the clumsy attempts by Pezzella of Topponi had allowed the merchant's son to know the daughter of the marshal.
Cast
- Totò : Torquato Pezzella, director of magazine "Tessuti"
- Aldo Fabrizi : Fabio Topponi, the polyvalent fiscal inspector
- Louis de Funès : Hector "Ettore" Curto, conseiller fiscal
- Anna Campori : Dora Pezzella
- Miranda Campa : L'épouse de Fabio
- Luciano Marin : Augustin "Tino" Pezzella
- Ciccio Barbi : the brigadier
- Anna-Maria Bottini : Mara
- Cathia Caro : Laura, the girl of Topponi
- Jacques Dufilho : the director of the prison
- Elena Fabrizi : Une infirmière
- Ignazio Leone : the guard - village
- Fernand Sardou : Ernesto Topponi, l'oncle de Laura
- Jean Bellanger : the security guard of the prison
- Miranda Campa : L'épouse de fabio
- Nando Bruno : L'Ubracio
- Piera Arico
- Gianni Cobelli
- Mario Corbelli
- Cesare Fantoni
- Lamberto Antinori