Details

Release year: 1956

Storyline

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Top credits

Directors

Camillo Mastrocinque

Writers

Cast

Totò — Antonio
Peppino De Filippo — Peppino
Franco Interlenghi — Alberto
Dorian Gray — Valeria

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Did you know

• Actors Peppino De Filippo and Titina De Filippo, who play Peppino and Teresa, were real-life siblings, although their movie characters are unrelated. in the movie.

• Actress Dorian Gray speaks with two different voices in this movie: she uses her real voice in indoor scenes, and in outdoor scenes she is dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta.

• The scene where Antonio's wife (Titina De Filippp) catches him (Totò) and Peppino (Peppino De Filippo) on TV while they're having fun at a nightclub is a reference to Laurel & Hardy's Sons of the Desert (1934). In both cases the wife catches the husband having fun on screen while worrying about him at home (Antonio was supposed to have been kidnapped, while Stan and Ollie were supposedly involved in a shipwreck), then the husband continues to cheat when back home, unaware that the wife has discovered the truth.