I ladri

I ladri
Italian poster
Directed byLucio Fulci
Written byLucio Fulci
Marcello Coscia
Marino Onorati
Vittorio Vighi
Nanni Loy
Ottavio Jemma
Produced byRoberto Capitani
Luigi Mondello
StarringTotò
Armando Calvo
Giovanna Ralli
CinematographyManuel Berenguer
Edited byJuan Pisón
Gino Talamo
Music byCarlo Innocenzi
Production
companies
  • I.C.M. Roma
  • Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica
Distributed byFenix Cinematográfica (Spain)
Release dates
  • 25 August 1959 (1959-08-25) (Turin)
  • 17 April 1960 (1960-04-17) (Barcelona)
Running time
95 minutes
Countries
  • Italy
  • Spain
LanguageItalian
Box officeITL 263.690 million

I ladri (lit. The Thieves) is a 1959 comedy film written and directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Totò and Giovanna Ralli.[page needed][page needed][page needed]

Plot

Gangster Joe Castagneto is declared undesirable by the U.S. government and returns to Naples where, under a special surveillance, he will have to deal with the hard-working and smart Police Commissioner Gennaro Di Sapio.

Cast

Development

I ladri was an Italian and Spanish co-production between I.C.M. Roma based in Rome and Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica bnased in Spain. Interiors were filmed at Incir-De Parolis Studios in Rome.

I ladri was Lucio Fulci's first film as a director.

Release

I ladri was first released regionally in Italy. It received theatrical releases in Turin on August 25, Rome on September 6, and Bari on September 10, 1959.

It was released in Spain in as Contrabando en Nápoles in different cities: first in Barcelona on April 17, Madrid on December 12, 1960. It grossed a total of 263,690,000 Italian lire in Italy.

It received an Italian-language screening in Chicago on December 16, 1963 as Toto Commissario (I ladri).

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Thrower 2018, p. 54.
  2. ↑ Mereghetti, Paolo (2010). Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore. ISBN 978-8860736260.
  3. ↑ Albiero, Paolo; Cacciatore, Giacomo (2015). Il terrorista dei generi: tutto il cinema di Lucio Fulci. Un Mondo a Parte, 2004. ISBN 978-8898395071.
  4. ↑ Alberto Anile (1998). I film di Totò (1946-1967): la maschera tradita. Le mani. ISBN 8880120808.
  5. ↑ Grainger & Thrower 2002, p. 272.
  6. ↑ Chicago Tribune 1963, p. 3.

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