Two Colonels (1962)
"I due colonnelli" (original title)

During the WWII Italians and English occupy alternatively a village between the Albanian and Grecian borders. It happens so often that, not only they use the same Hotel (the Iris) as ... See full summary »

Director:

Steno

Writers:

Bruno Corbucci (screenplay), Bruno Corbucci (story),

Stars:

Totò, Walter Pidgeon, Nino Taranto

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Totò	...	Colonnello Di Maggio
Walter Pidgeon	...	Colonello Timothy Henderson
Nino Taranto	...	Sergente Quaglia
Scilla Gabel	...	Iride
Toni Ucci	...	Mazzetta
Adriana Facchetti	...	Penelope
Nino Terzo	...	Soldato La Padula
Francis Lane	...	Sergente McIntyre
Sergio Bixio	...	Soldato Giobatta
Giancarlo Maestri
Gérard Herter	...	German General
Andrea Scotti
Nino Nini
Adriano Buzzanca	...	Partigiano greco
Antonio Devi

Storyline

During the WWII Italians and English occupy alternatively a village between the Albanian and Grecian borders. It happens so often that, not only they use the same Hotel (the Iris) as headquarters, but also they find the time to build up a kind of friendship relation. In fact the two colonels, the Italian Col. Di Maggio and the English Henderson save each other their life. But one day German army orders to Di Maggio a massive bombing in order to destroy completely the village, killing all its occupants and inhabitants, including the girls for which the Italians fallen in love. Di Maggio refuses and is sentenced to death. It is just the night before the famous September the 8th 1943.

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Plot Keywords:

german | german army | colonel | army | bombing | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

March 1966 (USA)

Also Known As:

Two Colonels

Box Office

Gross:

ITL 465,000,000 (Italy)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Titanus

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

User Reviews

A very good comedy!

This "war-comedy" is a really good one, even if little known. Featuring the unusual couple Antonio De Curtis-Walter Pidgeon, this is also a very funny movie, where the cleverness of Pidgeon reveals itself in the attempt to follow the classic "Totò"'s improvisation skill. Nino Taranto is as good as usual, and I have to signal that there is also an amusing scene involving Roland Bartrop and Totò, but I'm not sure if it was included in the reduced US version (I have seen only the full Italian version).