Botta e risposta

Name: Botta e risposta
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1950-02-18
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Nino Taranto, Isa Barzizza, Irasema Dilián

19501950
1h 20m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

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Comedy

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music ... Read allGood-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a... Read allGood-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without... Read all

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5.2/10

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Director
- Mario Soldati
Writers
- Pietro Garinei(screenplay)
- Sandro Giovannini
- Dino Maiuri(screenplay)
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Trivia
Italian censorship visa #7349 delivered on 18th February 1950.

Connections
Featured in American Masters: Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong (1989)

Soundtracks
Napolina
Music by Francis Lopez
Lyrics by Raymond Vincy
Performed by Suzy Delair

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Kleptomania in Roma.

Just a pretext to show many music hall acts in Roma ,including singing (Suzy Delair is the star ,but you will be disappointed cause she does not perform her famous " Avec Son tralala" from "quai des orfèvres ") ,ballets, conjuring and even a radio contest : it provides the best musical moment of a rather stodgy musical : Louis Armstrong in the flesh ,totally unexpected and therefore appreciated in such a context.

As for the screenplay ,it is decidedly lacking in interest :Fernandel is a house painter and he has his wallet stolen on a train to Roma ;another traveler was carrying star Delair's new dress for the show and it has disappeared too. While Fernandel ,whose pilgrimage to Roma is spoilt , is forced to work as a painter in the theater (which he compares to Sodom and Gomorrha ), the other unfortunate man from the train goes in search of the precious garment : he is given a clue by some kind of magician: you've got to find a woman whose name is the same as a queen whose nose was so famous it could have changed the face of the world .But our man's culture leaves a lot to be desired.

Fans of Fernandel will be disappointed:his appearances are few and far between.Fans of Armstrong might be interested.

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