Franco Franchi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato , 18 September 1928 - 9 December 1992) was an Italian comedian. He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with Ciccio Ingrassia but also in more dramatic material such as Comencini's 'Adventures of Pinocchio (1972), in which they paired memorably as the Fox and the Cat. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franco Franchi,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Shortest Day
as Franco Lo GrugnoTwo jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an...
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Caprice Italian Style
as CassioThe film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
as GattoMastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and...
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Story of Fear and a Knife
as FrancoA funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and...
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Farfallon
as FarfallonA man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent,...
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The Swindlers
as Salvatore (segment "Siciliani")A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with...
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The Masseuses
as Franco - Nightwatchman #1Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They...
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as Self (archive footage)
The World's Gold
as Franco SparapaoliAided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to...
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The Amazing Doctor G
as Franco PecoraNefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his...
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5 marines per 100 ragazze
as factotumFive GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by...
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
as FrancoFor a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual...
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Kaos
as Zi' Dima (segment "La giara")Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
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The Handsome, The Ugly, And The Stupid
as Il brutto - FrancoTwo POWs learn of a treasure of gold hidden in a cemetery, and escape from their POW camp to...
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
as FrancoThe scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over...
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The Maniacs
as Thief #1 (segment 'Il week-end)An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures...
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Satiricosissimo
as FrancoCiccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does...
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Le tardone
as The killer (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
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Stasera mi butto
as Bath attendantSummer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And...
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Hercules in the Valley of Woe
as FrancheoTwo boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them...
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I motorizzati
as Un ladro di gommeA guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to...
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2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
as Nicolino CellettiA dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
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Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
as Don FrancoItaly's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and...
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Letti sbagliati
as Franco (Segment "La seconda moglie")Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a...
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Two Sons of Ringo
as Franco Merendino / DjangoAnother spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam...
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Dirty Weekend
as Person on Film #1 (Theater) (archive footage) (uncredited)A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio...
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Avventura al motel
as FrancoA series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and...
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The Loves of Salammbo
as uncreditedDuring the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to...
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
as Franco BelloDuring a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous...
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The Last Judgment
as disoccupatoThe Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by...
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Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?
as FrancoFranco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car...
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Two Escape from Sing Sing
as FrancoTwo attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia....
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Latin Lovers
as FrancoThe film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
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The Sons of the Leopard
as Franco / Maria RosaPenniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons,...
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Brutti di notte
as Franco / Bruto Di NotteFranco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The...
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I Kill, You Kill
as Turiddu (segment "Cavalleria Rusticana, oggi")Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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Armiamoci e partite!
as FrancoFranco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French...
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Those Two in the Legion
as Franco CocuzzaCiccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local...
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Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
as Franco La PeraDuring the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from...
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Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
as Franco PassalacquaFranco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by...
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All the Gold in the World
as FrancoThe son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt...
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Queste pazze, pazze donne
as Turiddu Macrì ('Siciliani a Milano')Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of...
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Pugni, pupe e marinai
as SalvatoreThree sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an...
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
as FrancoTwo dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late...
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Veneri al sole
as Francesco Macrì (segment "Una domenica a Fregene")Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some...
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Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
as Franco Marelli / Salvatore PollaraA 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo...
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Ma che musica maestro
as Franco, il capobandaThe love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
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I due toreri
as Franco ScontentezzaIn Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of...
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I barbieri di Sicilia
as Franco Lo PersicoIn a little Sicilian village two hairdressers who are in love with the same girl manage to...
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Those Sweet Creatures
as Franco SamperiAn Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger...
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The Two Parachutists
as Franco ImpallomeniTwo penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in...
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On the Day of the Lord
as CarceriereMargherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love...
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I due sanculotti
as Franco La CapraThe brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution,...
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Corpse for the Lady
as GianniLaura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and...
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
as Sancio PanzaComic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having...
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
as Socio dello scrittoreFour extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they...
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Indovina chi viene a merenda?
as Franco La RapaSicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American...
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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
as Franco CaterinaA western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such...
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I due vigili
as Franco Lo CascioTwo traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his...
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Two Cat O'Nine Tails… and a Half, in Amsterdam
as Franco, il fotografoFranco and Ciccio, two journalists, are sent to Amsterdam to investigate a mysterious murder....
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Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
as FrancoFranco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the...
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The Nephews of Zorro
as Franco La VaccaTwo fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in...
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I 2 deputati
as Franco FranchiniFrancesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each...
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2 samurai per 100 geishe
as Franco SantuzzoTwo Sicilian cousins are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive...
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Paolo il freddo
as Paolino Pastorino detto TinoA baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on...
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Soldati e caporali
as FrancoThe army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
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I 2 pompieri
as Francesco PerriconeThe firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love...
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I due maghi del pallone
as Mago K. KThe manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the...
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I tre nemici
as FantuzzoA meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his...
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Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno
as Franco PietrasiccaA penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in...
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Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika
as MatteoProfessor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
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War Italian Style
as Frank ScordiaIt's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African...
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Veneri in collegio
as Calogero JuniorTwo competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's...
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
as Franco Capone / Il nonno di Franco / Francuzza l'abbandonataIn the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two...
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Two Sons of Trinity
as Franco TrinitàFranco and Ciccio are two cousins who, in the old West, have opened a service station, where...
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I due assi del guantone
as Franco MarsalaTwo waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a...
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Lisa with the Blue Eyes
as funzionario Centro Spaziale #1A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies:...
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I due mafiosi
as Franco FisichellaTwo clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
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Scandal Nudes
as polizziotto FrancoA theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles...
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Il Figlioccio del padrino
as Oronzo MusumeciA mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four...
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
as FrancoDim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but...
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The Last Italian Tango
as FrancoA woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in...
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Blue Tango
as Gaetano ButtittaTango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a...
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
as Franco GabbianiFranco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides...
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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
as Turiddu Macrì (segment "I Promessi Sposi")Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
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Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras?
as Franco BenenatoA defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition...
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Sedotti e bidonati
as FrancoTwo rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins...
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
as 'Occhi Svelti'An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when...
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Fistful of Knuckles
as FrancoFranco and Ciccio mosey into the Mexican border town of Santa Genoviefa. Both are dressed in...
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Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
as FrancoThe Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from...
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Gerarchi si muore
as ScillaNow in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist...
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L'onorata società
as SaruzzoSalvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having...
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It's a Woman's War
as Serg. Franco SamperiA girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her...
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Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)
as Avvocato FranchiLorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her...
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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
as FrancoFranco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and...
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Obiettivo ragazze
as CassaràFour former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a...
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Littlefoot the Policeman
as Franco PetraliaPetralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the...
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Paths of War
as FrancoTwo Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's...
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Il clan dei due Borsalini
as Franco Franchetti, il 'Professore'Italian comedy
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Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
as Franco FranchiniThe sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair...
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Two Public Enemies
as FrancoTwo two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee...
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Il voto
as uncreditedDuring the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela...
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I due Crociati
as Franco di CarrapipiTwo inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.
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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
as soldato PiscitelloA sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of...
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What Are the Clouds?
as CassioSome puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William...
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002 Operation Moon
as Franco / Colonel ParadowskyKGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen...
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Il sergente Rompiglioni
as Francesco Garibaldi RompiglioniA satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers...
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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
as Francesco Garibaldi RompiglioniAn inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so...
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Canzoni, bulli e pupe
as GaspareIn order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to...
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Il mio amico Benito
as TerroristaA clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and...
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Due bianchi nell'Africa nera
as FrancoTo follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer...
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Franco e Ciccio... Ladro e Guardia
as Franco ChiappaloneA cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with...
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Primitive Love
as Franco"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from...
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I due maggiolini più matti del mondo
as FrancoTwo Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group...
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I due della F. 1 alla corsa più pazza, pazza del mondo
as Franco / Pepito GonzalesTwo chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager...
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L'eredità dello zio buonanima
as Franco FavazzaWhen a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other...
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Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off...
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Un mostro e mezzo
as Franco \ CesaroneA thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released...
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Vino, whisky e acqua salata
as cuocoAn Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British...
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
as Principe Don MimìA prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl...
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I due pezzi da 90
as FrancoFranco and Ciccio are forced to abandon their sausage factory to reach the godfather of Franco:...
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The Two Magnificent Fresconi
as FrancoTwo fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
as GattoMastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and...
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