La banda degli onesti

Name: La banda degli onesti
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1956-04-12
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini

1956
1h 46m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.6K

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Peppino De Filippo and Totò in La banda degli onesti (1956)

Comedy

Three decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's invol... Read allThree decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's involvement.Three decent but clumsy men facing economic difficulties reluctantly start to fabricate counterfeit bills; the son of one of them is the cop who follows the case, ignoring his father's involvement.

Director
- Camillo Mastrocinque
Writers
- Agenore Incrocci
- Furio Scarpelli
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Camillo Mastrocinque
Writers
- Agenore Incrocci
- Furio Scarpelli
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The scene where the three main characters print the banknotes is made through American-styled slapsticks, as proposed by Totò right before filming. Totò was a fan of Charlie Chaplin.

Connections
Featured in Totò Story (1968)

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Review

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7/10

Honest Men Try Their Hands At Crime

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.