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8.1/10   2,393 votes
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Director:

Mario Monicelli

Writers:

Agenore Incrocci (story) &
Furio Scarpelli (story) ...
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Contact:

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Release Date:

22 November 1960 (USA) more

Genre:

Comedy | Crime more

Plot:

A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves bungle the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce. full summary | add synopsis

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Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins more

NewsDesk:

Hey NBC : It’s Story, Stupid
 (From TVovermind.com. 9 October 2009, 12:04 PM, PDT)

User Comments:

A tender look at some incompetent incorrigibles more (14 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Vittorio Gassman ... Peppe il pantera
Renato Salvatori ... Mario Angeletti
Memmo Carotenuto ... Cosimo
Rossana Rory ... Norma
Carla Gravina ... Nicoletta

Claudia Cardinale ... Carmelina
Carlo Pisacane ... Capannelle
Tiberio Murgia ... Michele Ferribotte
Gina Rovere ... Teresa, wife of Tiberio
Gina Amendola ... Mario's 'Mother'
Elvira Tonelli ... Assunta
Elena Fabrizi ... Signora Ada (as Elisa Fabrizi)
Pasquale Misiano ... Massimo
Renato Terra ... Eladio
Aldo Trifiletti ... Fernando, doorkeeper
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Big Deal on Madonna Street (USA)
Persons Unknown (UK)
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Runtime:

106 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Cinecittà more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Mario Monicelli wanted to call its movie "Le Madame", and only in a second moment changed it into "I Soliti Ignoti" (Usual Unknowns). Le Madame is an Italian slang for Policemen. more

Quotes:

Cosimo: [seeing other prisoners smoking in the prison yard] May your father and mother drop dead if you have a cigarette and aren't sharing.
[no one responds]
Cosimo: All orphans here, I see.
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Movie Connections:

Featured in I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (1987) more


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15 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
A tender look at some incompetent incorrigibles, 21 July 2005
10/10
Author: rolee-1 from Davidson, North Carolina

One character approaches another to get him to take the rap for a crime. But he can't do it, so he suggests someone else. The third character can't do it either. Soon a half dozen people are in search of someone to take the rap. They eventually decide that they need someone without a previous criminal record. But none of them knows anyone without a criminal record.

I had no idea it was going to be a comedy when I first started watching it. By the end I was laughing out loud. It's a little slow, but many Italian movies are a little slow and caper films usually build slowly. But it is thoroughly enjoyable with some gags that I've never seen anywhere else in film. Cosimo's bank heist was very amusing.

If you've just recently watched The Bicycle Thief, and are depressed by the bleakness of life shown there, this movie is the perfect antidote. It shows the lighter side of people who are down on their luck.

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