Franco Franchi
Birthday: 1928-09-18
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franco Franchi,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Two Wizards of the Ball
The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve o...
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mule...
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
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Kaos
Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons....
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Fists, Girls and Sailors
Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enem...
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Tonight I'll Throw Me
Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And rela...
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the wo...
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Two Sons of Trinity
Franco and Ciccio are two cousins who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where they ...
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Il mio amico Benito
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to...
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is o...
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I due maggiolini più matti del mondo
Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes...
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They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least
A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison,...
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual facul...
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Let's Arm Ourselves and Go!
Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citize...
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Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San An...
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Two Sons of Ringo
Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending t...
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The Two Sans-culottes
The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, puttin...
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Farfallon
A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teach...
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Dying as Hierarchs
Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with ...
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2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared....
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read...
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Uno storico pasticcio
Franco and Ciccio in "Uno storico pasticcio" is a 2000 montage film conceived and directed by Bruno ...
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I 2 deputati
Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, a...
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The Nephews of Zorro
Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in Cali...
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5 marines per 100 ragazze
Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the gi...
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The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid...
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Guess Who's Coming for a Snack?
Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers s...
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Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and O...
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Those Two in the Legion
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra bo...
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The Swindlers
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, tw...
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The Masseuses
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in...
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Two Escape from Sing Sing
Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia t...
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Two Public Enemies
Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Pa...
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with...
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman'...
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Who Gave You the License?
Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they ...
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002 Operation Moon
KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and ...
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Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the...
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Blue Tango
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing ph...
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The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...
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Those Sweet Creatures
An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and ...
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Seduced and Duped
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate ...
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I due vigili
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making o...
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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two ...
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Scandal Nudes
A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on hi...
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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoof...
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The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
Two POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to look fo...
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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage....
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Paolo the Cool
A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his...
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Primitive Love
"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around...
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2 samurai per 100 geishe
Two Sicilian cousins are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they re...
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decid...
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A Monster and a Half
A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by th...
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The Honored Society
Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduce...
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Wrong Beds
Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman...
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Paths of War
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican t...
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Veneri in collegio
Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée...
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These Mad, Mad Women
Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female ma...
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Fistful of Knuckles
Franco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in ponchos...
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I due toreri
In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. I...
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Story of Fear and a Knife
A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and stren...
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The Sons of the Leopard
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and m...
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Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his c...
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The World's Gold
Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attr...
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I due Crociati
Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem....
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Two Firefighters
The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both o...
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The Noon Vigilante
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bo...
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Target: Girls
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mi...
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All the Gold in the World
The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her ...
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Littlefoot the Policeman
Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling ...
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Two Whites in Dark Africa
To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero e...
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Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard
Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome P...
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The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World
Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who ha...
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Caprice Italian Style
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one...
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I due assi del guantone
Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxe...
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The Godfather's Godson
A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times...
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It's a Woman's War
A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-frie...
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The Two Big Cats O'Nine Tails... and a Half in Amsterdam
Franco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder. After ...
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of...
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On the Day of the Lord
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love wit...
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The Last Judgment
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on...
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Ugly at Night
Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor ...
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The Three Enemies
A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his botto...
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Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with ...
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Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop
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 m...
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The Sicily Barbers
In a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to sabotage ...
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The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul
When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other grandchildren a...
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The Two Big Shots
Franco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco: Nico...
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Ma che musica maestro
The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants....
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Satiricosissimo
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not...
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Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?
A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depend...
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The Last Italian Tango
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the at...
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Il sergente Rompiglioni
A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who l...
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How We Stole the Atomic Bomb
Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt ...
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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another...
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Latin Lovers
The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s....
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Adventure at the Motel
A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pi...
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Easy Love
Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarde...
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desp...
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The Two Magnificent Fresconi
Two fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the Sicilian M...
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The Two Parachutists
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South Am...
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Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika
Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife....
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Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from G...
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The Promise
During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls...
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What Are the Clouds?
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shak...
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The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband)
Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husban...
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Corpse for the Lady
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovan...
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Songs, Bullies and Chicks
In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to inter...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after ...
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The Loves of Salammbo
During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to figh...
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Dirty Weekend
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of ba...
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Lisa with the Blue Eyes
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling e...
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Vino, whisky e acqua salata
An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commande...
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Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government ag...
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The Amazing Doctor G
Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme t...
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I Kill, You Kill
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it....
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War Italian Style
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African des...
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Venus in the Sun
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some preci...
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The Maniacs
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of It...
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I motorizzati
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remai...
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