The Two Marshals
The Two Marshals (Italian: I due marescialli) is a 1961 Italian comedy film written and directed by Sergio Corbucci.[1][2][3] The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000 lire.[4]
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| Directed by | Sergio Corbucci |
| Produced by | Gianni Buffardi |
| Written by | Totò Sergio Corbucci Marcello Fondato Sandro Continenza Bruno Corbucci Giovanni Grimaldi |
| Starring | Totò Vittorio De Sica Gianni Agus Arturo Bragaglia |
| Music by | Piero Piccioni |
| Cinematography | Enzo Barboni |
| Edited by | Roberto Cinquini |
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Running time | 99 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Plot
In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of the Nazis and American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is a carabinieri marshal 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 the Badoglio Proclamation, are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding a partisan, a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.
Cast
- Totò as Antonio Capurro
- Vittorio De Sica as Marshal Vittorio Cotone
- Gianni Agus as Achille Pennica, the Podestà
- Arturo Bragaglia as Don Nicola
- Franco Giacobini as Basilio Meneghetti
- Elvy Lissiak as Vanda
- Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler
- Olimpia Cavalli as Immacolata Di Rosa
- Mario Castellani as the Thief
- Mimmo Poli as the Postman
- Bruno Corelli as Benegatti, the Lawyer
References
- Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
- Laura Morandini; Luisa Morandini; Morando Morandini. Il Morandini: Dizionario dei film, 2006. Zanichelli, 2005. ISBN 8808327108.
- Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
- Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù. Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis. Newton & Compton, 1996. ISBN 88-8183-306-9.