The Two Marshals
The Two Marshals | |
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Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
Written by | Totò Sergio Corbucci Marcello Fondato Sandro Continenza Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi |
Produced by | Gianni Buffardi |
Starring | Totò Vittorio De Sica Gianni Agus Arturo Bragaglia |
Cinematography | Enzo Barboni |
Edited by | Roberto Cinquini |
Music by | Piero Piccioni |
Release date |
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Running time | 99 min |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Two Marshals(Italian:I due marescialli) is a 1961 Italiancomedy filmwritten and directed bySergio Corbucci.[1][2][3]The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000lire.[4]
Plot
[edit]In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of theNazisand American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is acarabinierimarshal upright who's chasing Antonio, and that in the end, to a misunderstanding, he is forced to do so by Marshal dress. Antonio is excited about the new appointment, and Vittorio meanwhile disguises himself as a priest. In fact the two, in the days of theBadoglio Proclamation,are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding apartisan,a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.
Cast
[edit]- Totòas Antonio Capurro
- Vittorio De Sicaas Marshal Vittorio Cotone
- Gianni Agusas Achille Pennica, thePodestà
- Arturo Bragagliaas Don Nicola
- Franco Giacobinias Basilio Meneghetti
- Elvy Lissiakas Vanda
- Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler
- Olimpia Cavallias Immacolata Di Rosa
- Mario Castellanias the Thief
- Mimmo Polias the Postman
- Bruno Corellias Benegatti, the Lawyer
References
[edit]- ^Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991).Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film.Gremese Editore, 1992.ISBN8876055932.
- ^Laura Morandini; Luisa Morandini; Morando Morandini (2005).Il Morandini: Dizionario dei film, 2006.Zanichelli, 2005.ISBN8808327108.
- ^Paolo Mereghetti.Il Mereghetti.B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010.ISBN8860736269.
- ^Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù.Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis.Newton & Compton, 1996.ISBN88-8183-306-9.
External links
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- 1961 films
- Italian comedy films
- Films directed by Sergio Corbucci
- 1961 comedy films
- Films set in 1943
- Films about Italian resistance movement
- Italian Campaign of World War II films
- Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi
- Films scored by Piero Piccioni
- 1960s Italian-language films
- 1960s Italian films
- Italian-language comedy films
- 1960s Italian comedy film stubs