The careers of both Gassman and Mastroianni were considerably helped by the success of the film, Gassman in particular, since before then he was not deemed suitable for comedic roles. Big Deal On Madonna Street is outstanding. With Vittorio Gassman who wasn’t a comedian, with the film ending in failure, and with the death of a central character. Check out our picks for movies that (hopefully) won't keep you up at night. Another one of the actors who was supposed to be Bolognesian (from Bologna) was from Naples, so I had to dub his voice. Bob Fosse created a Broadway musical titled Big Deal based on the film. It was the movie he did immediately prior to this one. But this way of shooting films was quite common in Italy, to use actors taken from the street. Peppe then surprises Capanelle by deciding to find legitimate work. ), Several critics decried the subtitles. A further sequel was directed by Amanzio Todini titled I Soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo (1987). Directed by Mario Monicelli • 1958 • Italy Starring Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto An all-star cast and jazzy score highlight this charming comedy, a deft satire of classic caper films like RIFIFI. Review by b rad ★★★★½ . (1958). However, as the news of this lucrative job spreads like wildfire, instead, it's Cosimo's band of maladroit petty criminals--including a destitute photographer with fatherly obligations--who will take action for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Tiberio leaves his baby with his wife in prison to participate in the robbery, but the flea market proprietor breaks his arm for stealing the camera. It was the third (at least) tried out by the film’s English-language distributors after Persons Unknown and The Big Deal. Of course [Claudia] Cardinale wasn’t an actress then either. The film won Best Comedy at the 12th annual Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. Since none involved have the skill to crack the safe, they enlist the help of genteel local safecracker Dante (Totò), who is cautious not to violate his parole but supplies tools and gives them a brief primer. He enters the pawn shop with a gun, which the blasé pawnbroker assumes he wants to hock. You won't find any film nowadays which comes even close to this one. Tiberio steals a movie camera with a telephoto lens from a flea market to film the safe's combination, but without success. A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife. Set in 1930s Chicago with an African-American cast and using popular songs of the era, the show opened at the Broadway Theatre on April 10, 1986 and closed on June 8, 1986 after 69 performances. That was the reality. "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (_it. Review by Matthew Noble ★★★★ "Stealing is a serious profession." Meanwhile, Cosimo is released from prison. It was more a parody that was aligned with a certain realism around us, with the poverty, and with people who had to do the best they could with whatever means possible to survive, with petty crimes. Nick Riganas. Title: It received five Tony Award nominations, with Fosse winning for Choreography. 04 Dec 1960: X1. In an oversight Esposito manages to flee again. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? "[4], The apartment and pawnshop on "Via della Madonna" was in reality located at 7–8, Via delle Tre Cannelle (41°53′48″N 12°29′10″E / 41.896613°N 12.486°E / 41.896613; 12.486), immediately north of Trajan's Market. An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student for a two-day ride through the Roman and Tuscany countries. Now, he vows vengeance on the group. New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called it "an essentially funny picture, artfully and joyously played. "Even most of the interiors were on location," Monicelli said. A hapless small-time Roman crook, Cosimo (Memmo Carotenuto), is arrested for a bungled car theft and sentenced to a few months in prison. It was rare to find death and failure in a comedy. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italian: I soliti ignoti, also released as Persons Unknown in the UK) is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli, and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Chicago Daily Tribune; Sep 8, 1961; pg. The film ends with a newspaper article recounting a robbery by unknown persons who apparently broke into an apartment to steal pasta with chickpeas. No one with a sense of humor and an appreciation of humanity should miss it.” [12] The Washington Post thought, “Most unusual, however, and ever so clever, are the ways the script progresses to its climactic goof-up.”[13] The Baltimore Sun wrote, “Director Mario Monicelli has endowed the film with such flashes of brilliance, and the cast...has enacted it with such tasteful understatement, that ‘The Big Deal on Madonna Street’ must be listed as one of the funniest comedies of the last ten years.”[14], Crowther, in a follow-up essay, wrote, “Although the routines have whiskers, so old and used in vaudeville are they, the picture has an ageless zest for laughter.”[15], According to the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 7.47/10.[16].
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