Franco Franchi

Franco Franchi

Born: September 18, 1928
Died: December 9, 1992
in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato , 18 September 1928 - 9 December 1992) was an Italian comedian.

He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with Ciccio Ingrassia but also in more dramatic material such as Comencini's 'Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), in which they paired memorably as the Fox and the Cat.

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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Title: How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
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Blue Tango
Title: Blue Tango
Character: Gaetano Buttitta
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse.
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Title: Buona Domenica
Character: Partecipazione
Released: January 6, 1985
Type: TV
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Kaos
Title: Kaos
Character: Zi' Dima (segment "La giara")
Released: November 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
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Uno storico pasticcio
Title: Uno storico pasticcio
Character: Franco
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika
Title: Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika
Character: Matteo
Released: August 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
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Title: Due ragazzi incorreggibili
Released: December 11, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Domenica In
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
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Amici più di prima
Title: Amici più di prima
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Dream of Zorro
Title: Dream of Zorro
Character: Paco / Zorro
Released: August 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
Title: Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
Character: Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Title: Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Character: Franco Gabbiani
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
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L'eredità dello zio buonanima
Title: L'eredità dello zio buonanima
Character: Franco Favazza
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other grandchildren and lawyers.
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Littlefoot the Policeman
Title: Littlefoot the Policeman
Character: Franco Petralia
Released: August 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.
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Farfallon
Title: Farfallon
Character: Farfallon
Released: August 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
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Paolo il freddo
Title: Paolo il freddo
Character: Paolino Pastorino detto Tino
Released: April 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble.
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Franco e Ciccio superstars
Title: Franco e Ciccio superstars
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Il sergente Rompiglioni
Title: Il sergente Rompiglioni
Character: Francesco Garibaldi Rompiglioni
Released: December 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band.
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Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
Title: Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
Character: Franco
Released: August 30, 1973
Type: Movie
The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his country because he smuggled rice from Palermo to Beijing, tries to train in the art of kung-fu with disastrous results.
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Dirty Weekend
Title: Dirty Weekend
Character: Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
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Il Figlioccio del padrino
Title: Il Figlioccio del padrino
Character: Oronzo Musumeci
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.
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The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
Title: The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
Character: Frankie Lonego
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Last Italian Tango
Title: The Last Italian Tango
Character: Franco
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Gatto
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
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Two Cat O'Nine Tails… and a Half, in Amsterdam
Title: Two Cat O'Nine Tails… and a Half, in Amsterdam
Character: Franco, il fotografo
Released: October 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After having managed to infiltrate the libertine circles of the city, the two take a compromising photo that will get them into trouble.
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Story of Fear and a Knife
Title: Story of Fear and a Knife
Character: Franco
Released: August 14, 1972
Type: Movie
A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
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Two Sons of Trinity
Title: Two Sons of Trinity
Character: Franco Trinità
Released: July 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are two cousins ​​who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they carry out the washing and drying of the horses and a bar service for the passing riders. One day a stranger saves them from an attempted robbery against them: the girl introduces herself as Calamity Jane, as well as Franco and Ciccio's aunt.
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Teatro 11
Title: Teatro 11
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 1972
Type: Movie
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Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Gatto
Released: April 8, 1972
Type: TV
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.
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Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno
Title: Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno
Character: Franco Pietrasicca
Released: March 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
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Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
Title: Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
Character: Franco Franchini
Released: March 8, 1972
Type: Movie
The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls.
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I due assi del guantone
Title: I due assi del guantone
Character: Franco Marsala
Released: December 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another part of town, he is severely beaten up by his supporters.
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I due pezzi da 90
Title: I due pezzi da 90
Character: Franco
Released: October 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco: Nico Cavallaro. The two do not know that this is a smuggler of drugs and that you want to serve them to transport the goods.
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Armiamoci e partite!
Title: Armiamoci e partite!
Character: Franco
Released: September 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
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Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras?
Title: Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras?
Character: Franco Benenato
Released: August 19, 1971
Type: Movie
A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.
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It's a Woman's War
Title: It's a Woman's War
Character: Serg. Franco Samperi
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.
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I due della F. 1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo
Title: I due della F. 1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo
Character: Franco / Pepito Gonzales
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other.
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Ma che musica maestro
Title: Ma che musica maestro
Character: Franco, il capobanda
Released: April 6, 1971
Type: Movie
The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
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...Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?
Title: ...Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?
Character: Franco
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Title: Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Character: Franco Bello
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
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Il clan dei due Borsalini
Title: Il clan dei due Borsalini
Character: Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Italian comedy
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I due maghi del pallone
Title: I due maghi del pallone
Character: Mago K. K
Released: December 2, 1970
Type: Movie
The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?
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Due bianchi nell'Africa nera
Title: Due bianchi nell'Africa nera
Character: Franco
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan".
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Those Sweet Creatures
Title: Those Sweet Creatures
Character: Franco Samperi
Released: September 4, 1970
Type: Movie
An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Title: Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Character: Principe Don Mimì
Released: August 29, 1970
Type: Movie
A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
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I due maggiolini più matti del mondo
Title: I due maggiolini più matti del mondo
Character: Franco
Released: August 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is also invaded by three prison fugitives who terrorize the lot.
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Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?
Title: Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?
Character: Franco
Released: August 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.
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Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
Title: Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
Character: Don Franco
Released: April 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
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Paths of War
Title: Paths of War
Character: Franco
Released: March 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
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On the Day of the Lord
Title: On the Day of the Lord
Character: Carceriere
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
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Satiricosissimo
Title: Satiricosissimo
Character: Franco
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
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Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Title: Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Character: funzionario Centro Spaziale #1
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
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Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia
Title: Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia
Character: Franco Chiappalone
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd couple on the trail of the real murderer who is thought to be working in a circus.
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Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Title: Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Character: Franco
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
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Indovina chi viene a merenda?
Title: Indovina chi viene a merenda?
Character: Franco La Rapa
Released: April 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
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I 2 deputati
Title: I 2 deputati
Character: Franco Franchini
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament.
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The Two Magnificent Fresconi
Title: The Two Magnificent Fresconi
Character: Franco
Released: December 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Two fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the Sicilian Mafia to travel to Milan to sell a large batch of wine. At first they have little luck, but soon they notice one of their competitors having great success using beautiful women to push their product. They adopt this model aggressively, but the women they hire end up enjoying so much success that their husbands become concerned and suspicious of their activities.
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The Nephews of Zorro
Title: The Nephews of Zorro
Character: Franco La Vacca
Released: December 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments.
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I 2 pompieri
Title: I 2 pompieri
Character: Francesco Perricone
Released: October 29, 1968
Type: Movie
The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives.
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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Title: Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Character: Franco
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Title: Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Character: Sancio Panza
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
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I due Crociati
Title: I due Crociati
Character: Franco di Carrapipi
Released: August 7, 1968
Type: Movie
Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
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American Secret Service
Title: American Secret Service
Released: May 4, 1968
Type: Movie
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Caprice Italian Style
Title: Caprice Italian Style
Character: Cassio
Released: April 13, 1968
Type: Movie
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
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Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
Title: Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
Character: Franco Marelli / Salvatore Pollara
Released: April 13, 1968
Type: Movie
A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
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What Are the Clouds?
Title: What Are the Clouds?
Character: Cassio
Released: April 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
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Brutti di notte
Title: Brutti di notte
Character: Franco / Bruto Di Notte
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
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All the Gold in the World
Title: All the Gold in the World
Character: Franco
Released: February 27, 1968
Type: Movie
The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.
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I barbieri di Sicilia
Title: I barbieri di Sicilia
Character: Franco Lo Persico
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage the bacteriological weapons the Nazis are preparing to use against the allied armies invasion.
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The World's Gold
Title: The World's Gold
Character: Franco Sparapaoli
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl.
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I due vigili
Title: I due vigili
Character: Franco Lo Cascio
Released: December 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
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Stasera mi butto
Title: Stasera mi butto
Character: Bath attendant
Released: November 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
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I Zanzaroni
Title: I Zanzaroni
Released: September 8, 1967
Type: Movie
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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
Title: Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
Character: Franco Caterina
Released: August 25, 1967
Type: Movie
A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though. (via IMDB- user unbroken metal)
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The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
Title: The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
Character: Il brutto - Franco
Released: August 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look for it.
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Title: The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Character: Franco
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
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How We Stole the Atomic Bomb
Title: How We Stole the Atomic Bomb
Character: Franco
Released: February 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt carrying a nuclear weapon, and he is then persued by shady spy, named Ciccio, working for a spy organization led by the sinister Dr. Si (Yes) to find the atom bomb before anyone else does to blackmail the world, which leads to Franco and Ciccio forming an unlikely alliance to get the bomb for themselves.
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Two Sons of Ringo
Title: Two Sons of Ringo
Character: Franco Merendino / Django
Released: December 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Title: Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Character: 'Occhi Svelti'
Released: October 31, 1966
Type: Movie
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
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I due sanculotti
Title: I due sanculotti
Character: Franco La Capra
Released: August 13, 1966
Type: Movie
The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Title: Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Character: Franco
Released: July 29, 1966
Type: Movie
The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Title: How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Character: Franco
Released: March 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
Title: 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
Character: Franco
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.
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The Two Parachutists
Title: The Two Parachutists
Character: Franco Impallomeni
Released: December 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
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War Italian Style
Title: War Italian Style
Character: Frank Scordia
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.
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002 Operation Moon
Title: 002 Operation Moon
Character: Franco / Colonel Paradowsky
Released: November 25, 1965
Type: Movie
KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.
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The Amazing Doctor G
Title: The Amazing Doctor G
Character: Franco Pecora
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
Title: How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
Character: soldato Piscitello
Released: August 21, 1965
Type: Movie
A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
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Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Title: Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Character: Franco La Pera
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
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Latin Lovers
Title: Latin Lovers
Character: Franco
Released: August 11, 1965
Type: Movie
The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
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Veneri in collegio
Title: Veneri in collegio
Character: Calogero Junior
Released: June 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée.
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The Sons of the Leopard
Title: The Sons of the Leopard
Character: Franco / Maria Rosa
Released: April 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
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Fistful of Knuckles
Title: Fistful of Knuckles
Character: Franco
Released: April 14, 1965
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in ponchos, one rides a small mule, one a large one. They are gun salesmen, peddling their wares from town to town.
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Letti sbagliati
Title: Letti sbagliati
Character: Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
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I Kill, You Kill
Title: I Kill, You Kill
Character: Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")
Released: March 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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Soldati e caporali
Title: Soldati e caporali
Character: Franco
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
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Two Public Enemies
Title: Two Public Enemies
Character: Franco
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
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Veneri al sole
Title: Veneri al sole
Character: Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")
Released: December 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
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Un mostro e mezzo
Title: Un mostro e mezzo
Character: Franco \ Cesarone
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.
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I due toreri
Title: I due toreri
Character: Franco Scontentezza
Released: December 3, 1964
Type: Movie
In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
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Sedotti e bidonati
Title: Sedotti e bidonati
Character: Franco
Released: October 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
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Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
Title: Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
Character: Franco Passalacqua
Released: October 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.
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Easy Love
Title: Easy Love
Character: Franco (segment "Un uomo corretto")
Released: October 3, 1964
Type: Movie
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Primitive Love
Title: Primitive Love
Character: Franco
Released: September 1, 1964
Type: Movie
"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
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Two Escape from Sing Sing
Title: Two Escape from Sing Sing
Character: Franco
Released: August 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.
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Corpse for the Lady
Title: Corpse for the Lady
Character: Gianni
Released: August 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
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Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)
Title: Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)
Character: Avvocato Franchi
Released: August 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
Title: Two Gangsters in the Wild West
Character: Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonata
Released: June 30, 1964
Type: Movie
In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Title: The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Character: Socio dello scrittore
Released: June 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
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Canzoni, bulli e pupe
Title: Canzoni, bulli e pupe
Character: Gaspare
Released: May 29, 1964
Type: Movie
In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.
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Queste pazze, pazze donne
Title: Queste pazze, pazze donne
Character: Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')
Released: May 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
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The Maniacs
Title: The Maniacs
Character: Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
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Le tardone
Title: Le tardone
Character: The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
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2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
Title: 2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
Character: Nicolino Celletti
Released: January 17, 1964
Type: Movie
A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
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I due mafiosi
Title: I due mafiosi
Character: Franco Fisichella
Released: January 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
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Scandal Nudes
Title: Scandal Nudes
Character: polizziotto Franco
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on his way.
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The Swindlers
Title: The Swindlers
Character: Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
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Everything is Music
Title: Everything is Music
Character: Friend of Anemia
Released: August 18, 1963
Type: Movie
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Obiettivo ragazze
Title: Obiettivo ragazze
Character: Cassarà
Released: August 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Title: La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Character: Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")
Released: February 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Franco Lo Grugno
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Avventura al motel
Title: Avventura al motel
Character: Franco
Released: February 9, 1963
Type: Movie
A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
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Vino, whisky e acqua salata
Title: Vino, whisky e acqua salata
Character: cuoco
Released: December 7, 1962
Type: Movie
An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.
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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Un ladro di gomme
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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The Masseuses
Title: The Masseuses
Character: Franco - Nightwatchman #1
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
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2 samurai per 100 geishe
Title: 2 samurai per 100 geishe
Character: Franco Santuzzo
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian cousins ​​are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they realize they will have to adapt to the local customs. The tour will turn into a long series of troubles: the Sicilian cousins, to obtain the inheritance, will have to turn into real samurai.
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Those Two in the Legion
Title: Those Two in the Legion
Character: Franco Cocuzza
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
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I tre nemici
Title: I tre nemici
Character: Fantuzzo
Released: June 23, 1962
Type: Movie
A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.
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Il mio amico Benito
Title: Il mio amico Benito
Character: Terrorista
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
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Gerarchi si muore
Title: Gerarchi si muore
Character: Scilla
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
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Pugni, pupe e marinai
Title: Pugni, pupe e marinai
Character: Salvatore
Released: November 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
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The Last Judgment
Title: The Last Judgment
Character: disoccupato
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
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Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Title: Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Character: Francheo
Released: October 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.
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5 marines per 100 ragazze
Title: 5 marines per 100 ragazze
Character: factotum
Released: August 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
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L'onorata società
Title: L'onorata società
Character: Saruzzo
Released: March 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.
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Appuntamento a Ischia
Title: Appuntamento a Ischia
Character: Contrabbandiere Basso
Released: September 26, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Loves of Salammbo
Title: The Loves of Salammbo
Released: March 24, 1960
Type: Movie
During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
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Il voto
Title: Il voto
Released: October 17, 1950
Type: Movie
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.