La banda degli onesti

Totò is his tenement's janitor, who is about to lose his place because he won't help the new manager pad the accounts. Pepino del Filippo is a printer whose shop is failing. Giacomo Furia is an artist reduced to sign painting, who is about to be evicted. When Totò is left an engraving plate for the 10;0000 lire note and watermarked paper by a dying man, and promises to throw them into the river, the three of them turn counterfeiters. Then Toro's son, Gabrielle Tinti, returns as an officer of the government to track down some new counterfeiters.

It's a vehicle for the popular Totò, and he is in fine form, grimacing and indulging in malapropisms. Del Filippo, his old colleague from Naples, is also in fine fettle, as he keeps trying to follow Toto's incoherent explanations. Their timing is superb, and the story about three small, honest men with big, criminal plans is a lot of fun.