Loading...
Blog Details
0 Likes
0
Movie
Cops and Robbers
Movie Details

Title: Cops and Robbers

Release Date: 29 Nov 1951

Runtime: 1h 45m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Lux Film, Golden Film, Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica

Production Companies: Lux Film, Golden Film, Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica

Overview: Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

Additional Information

IMDB: View on IMDB

TMDB: View on TMDB

Ratings

Average Vote: 7.5 (170 votes)

Cast

  • Ferdinando Esposito: Totò
  • Brigadiere Bottoni: Aldo Fabrizi
  • Giovanna Bottoni: Ave Ninchi
  • Mr. Locuzzo, the Tourist: William Tubbs
  • Donata Esposito: Pina Piovani
  • Liliana Bottoni: Rossana Podestà
  • Il padre di Esposito: Ernesto Almirante
  • Commissario: Pietro Carloni
  • Amilcare: Mario Castellani
  • Libero Esposito: Carlo Delle Piane
  • Recommended Posts
    The Band of Honest Men

    Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

    Bread and Chocolate

    An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

    Totò cerca casa

    Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

    47 Talking Corpses

    Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.

    The Organizer

    In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.

    The Two Marshals

    September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

    The Dollars Are Coming!

    A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...

    Let's Hope It's a Girl

    Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.

    Totó in color

    In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

    Graduation Party

    The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

    Sexo e a Metrópole

    Filumena Marturano

    Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.

    Brancaleone at the Crusades

    After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

    The New Monsters

    A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.

    Poverty and Nobility

    Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

    Mediterraneo

    Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

    Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

    Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

    Grand Illusion

    A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

    Marriage Italian Style

    During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

    Giant

    Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

    0 Comment