Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Produced by D.D.L.
Written by Ruggero Maccari, Vittorio Metz, Mario Amendola
Starring Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Dorian Gray
Music by Alessandro Cicognini
Cinematography Mario Albertelli
Edited by Gisa Radicchi Levi
Distributed by D.D.L.
Release dates
 1956
Running time
 98 min
Country Italy
Language Italian

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (internationally released as Totò, Peppino and the outlaws) is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque.[1][2]

For this film Peppino De Filippo was awarded with a Silver Ribbon for best supporting actor.[3]

Plot

Province of Rome, the early postwar years. Antonio, an unemployed middle-aged, married a rich woman, Teresa, who bullies: he lives in the countryside with his wife and daughter Valeria with the earnest and always without a penny in his pocket. Valeria makes the acquaintance of Albert, a young journalist, came to the country with the purpose of approaching and interviewing the bandit Ignatius said, "The Press", feared throughout the region for its daring enterprises. With the complicity of Peppino, the barber of the country, Toto pretends to his wife that he had been kidnapped by Ignatius and thus induces Teresa stingy to pay five million for his ransom. The money is squandered in carousing by Toto and Peppino, who went to Rome, where they are joined by Valeria and Alberto, who discovered the deception, even Teresa discovers the ruse of her husband, when the television is transmitted to a shooting in a nightclub, where the two buddies damage to the mad joy. Gone are the money, Toto returns to town and tells his wife to have escaped the bandits, Valeria did not have time to warn him so that man is exposed. The day after Toto is really captured by the men of Ignatius, who also knew of the fake kidnapping done in his name, he calls for a high ransom, Teresa, however, think that this is another fake kidnapping and does not give a money. Valeria and Alberto, now engaged, hatched a plan to rescue Toto, going by Ignatius in his den and calling for freedom of Toto in exchange for an interview that will make the famous bandit. Ignatius accepts and Toto back home. After the wedding of Valeria and Alberto, Teresa's husband out of the house, warning him not to come back until you have made a stand. Toto, who has never worked, is reduced to make the "boy" in the workshop of Peppino.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Alberto Anile. I film di Totò (1946-1967): la maschera tradita. Le mani, 1998.
  2. ↑ Enrico Giacovelli, Enrico Lancia. I film di Peppino De Filippo. Gremese Editore, 1992.
  3. ↑ Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.

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