The Two Marshals

1961 Italian film

1961 (1961)

Running time

99 minCountryItalyLanguageItalian

The Two Marshals (Italian: I due marescialli) is a 1961 Italian comedy film written and directed by Sergio Corbucci.^[1]^[2]^[3] The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000 lire.^[4]

Plot

In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of the Nazis and American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is a carabinieri marshal upright who's chasing Antonio, and that in the end, to a misunderstanding, he is forced to do so by Marshal dress. Antonio is excited about the new appointment, and Vittorio meanwhile disguises himself as a priest. In fact the two, in the days of the Badoglio Proclamation, are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding a partisan, a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.

Cast

Totò as Antonio Capurro
Vittorio De Sica as Marshal Vittorio Cotone
Gianni Agus as Achille Pennica, the Podestà
Arturo Bragaglia as Don Nicola
Franco Giacobini as Basilio Meneghetti
Elvy Lissiak as Vanda
Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler
Olimpia Cavalli as Immacolata Di Rosa
Mario Castellani as the Thief
Mimmo Poli as the Postman
Bruno Corelli as Benegatti, the Lawyer

References

^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
^ Laura Morandini; Luisa Morandini; Morando Morandini (2005). Il Morandini: Dizionario dei film, 2006. Zanichelli, 2005. ISBN 8808327108.
^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
^ Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù. Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis. Newton & Compton, 1996. ISBN 88-8183-306-9.